Ravenloft PC Games IBM PC MS-DOS 1994-95 DreamForge Intertainment

Ravenloft Games PC

DreamForge Intertainment's Ravenloft games are cRPGs released in 1994 and 1995 for IBM PC MS-DOS.

Specifications for Ravenloft Games

All three Ravenloft-engine games share the following specifications:

• 256-color SVGA 640x400 display
• Icon-driven mouse control
• AD&D 2nd Edition ruleset implementation
• Toggleable floors, ceilings, skies, sprite-dithering and palette intensity
• Tailorable draw distance
• Switch between step-based and interpolated movement
• 3 different render-field sizes (max 512x256)
• i808386DX-33 CPU minimum requirement
• 4 megs of RAM minimum requirement
• Rational Systems DOS/4GW Protected Mode run-time 1.96

Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession IBM PC 1994

DreamForge Intertainment released Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0 Protected mode run-time 1.96 in 1994. Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession is set in the TSR's AD&D gothic-horror Ravenloft campaign setting.

Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession was programmed by Don Wuenschell. Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession was distributed on 7x 3.5" 1.44MB HD diskettes and decompresses and installs via Floppy 1.1 Installation. 

Strahd's Possession displays in 256-color SVGA 640x400, features a maximum render-field of 512x256 and requires an i80386DX-33 MHz CPU, MSCDEX 2.1 2x CD-ROM, 21 megs of HDD space and a minimum of 525,000 bytes of conventional RAM and bytes of 2,720,000 XMS RAM (4 megs of RAM).

• Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession Manual aka Rule Book: 93 pages
• Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession Clue Book: 124 pages

Ravenloft: Stone Prophet IBM PC 1995

Sequel to Strahd's Possession of 1994, DreamForge Intertainment released Ravenloft: Stone Prophet for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0 Protected mode run-time 1.96 in 1995. Ravenloft: Stone Prophet was programmed by Don Wuenschell, Mike Breitkreutz and Thomas J. Holmes.

Ravenloft: Stone Prophet installs via CD-ROM; the game reads most of its data from the CD-ROM. Ravenloft: Stone Prophet displays in 256-color SVGA 640x400 and requires an i386DX-33 MHz CPU, 2x CD-ROM, 4 megs of HDD space and a minimum of 340,000 bytes of conventional RAM and 2,700,000 bytes of XMS RAM (4 megs of RAM).

• Ravenloft: Stone Prophet Manual aka Rule Book: 92 pages
• Ravenloft: Stone Prophet Clue Book: 93 pages

Menzoberranzan IBM PC 1994

DreamForge Intertainment released Menzoberranzan for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0 Protected mode run-time 1.96 in 1994. Built on the Ravenloft engine, Menzoberranzan is set in TSR's Forgotten Realms campaign setting and is based on the characters found in R.A Salvatore's The Legacy of 1992.

Menzoberranzan was programmed by Don Wuenschell. Menzoberranzan installs via CD-ROM. Menzoberranzan displays in 256-color SVGA 640x400 and requires an i80386DX-33 MHz CPU, 2x CD-ROM, 15 megs of HDD space and a minimum of 540,000 bytes of conventional RAM and 2,700,000 bytes of XMS RAM (4 megs of RAM).

Stupidly, Menzoberranzan cinematizes its character creation via ugly pre-rendered animations that also slow down chargen.

• Menzoberranzan Manual aka Rule Book: 92 pages
• Menzoberranzan Clue Book: 110 pages

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