Legend of Faerghail Amiga 1990 Electronic Design Hannover Olaf Barthel

Legend of Faerghail 1990

Electronic Design Hannover released Legend of Faerghail for the Amiga in 1990. Legend of Faerghail was programmed by Olaf Barthel; its graphics drawn by Matthias Kästner; its audio composed by Andreas Starr.

Legend of Faerghail is a medieval-fantasy flip-screen cRPG. In Legend of Faerghail players create a six-person party.

Legend of Faerghail employs flip-screen exploration, turn-based combat and text-based menus that are nagivated via mouse-cursor and shortcut keys.

The menus respond quickly to hotkey input which rewards those who are quick on the keyboard. Yes, we expect responsive menus, but many cRPGs suffer from lagging menus that don't keep up with the player's input.

Legend of Faerghail displays in 32-color 320x200, but the active drawspace is only 120x120. There is no actor sprite-scaling in flip-screen mode and there are no moving sprites in turn-based mode. 

Legend of Faerghail was distributed on 3x 3.5" 880kB DD diskettes and is hard disk drive-installable. The install size is 2 megs.

Legend of Faerghail Features

• Legend of Faerghail Character Attributes: strength, intelligence, wisdom, dexterity, constitution
• Other stats: hit points, magic points, experience points (XP), armor class (AC), alignment, weight, gold
• Legend of Faerghail Races: human, dwarf, elf, halfling, mixed race
• Legend of Faerghail Trades (classes): warrior, barbarian, thief, blacksmith, magician, illusionist, paladin, ranger, cleric, druid, healer, monk
• Legend of Faerghail Abilities (skills): attack, defense, negotiating, concentrating, trap detecting, trap disposal, open door, pick pocketing, stalking
• Legend of Faerghail Languages: common, animal, orc, lizard, dwarf, elf, dark, magic
• Legend of Faerghail Towns: trading post, bank, inn, temple, emporium,  temple, Grand Board of Trades
• Flip-screen mode Actions (wilderness/dungeon): use, cast spell, forge, rest, dismiss, lure, magic ball, pick lock, options/files, pause
• Legend of Faerghail NPC interactions: trade wares, combat, retreat, recruit
• Legend of Faerghail Spells: x31 magician spells, x25 illusionist spells, x21 druid spells, x20 cleric spells, x18 healer spells, x10 blacksmith spells
• x8 dungeon-types each with 4 levels and 1,000 rooms
• x80 enemy types

Legend of Faerghail was first released on the Amiga. The Atari ST and Amiga versions of Legend of Faerghail require 512K of RAM, but the game will employ 1 meg of RAM on the ST in order to reduce load-times. On the Amiga 1 meg of RAM is used for additional audiovisuals.

Legend of Faerghail manual: 96 pages in English.

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