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[Elena]

AFAIK prices for weapon are equal everywhere. Only Fletcher in City of Yvel pays you a higher price for crossbows. You have to “sell” items in Swamp usually. The magic stone head always gives you 60 crowns, even for a stone.

Shopkeepers in Swamp will pay half-price until you return a ritual mask to Gorkha Chieftain.

One engine feature that might be of use to someone...

My usual obsessive skill training involves killing monsters and waiting for them to respawn, over and over again. The cavemen in the draracle caves, the bees in opinwood, the orcs in the yvel forest, the imps in the mines, the ghosts in the tower...

It looks like the game monitors the amount of monsters you killed, and will decrease the spawn amount at certain points. If you continue further, the monsters will stop respawning entirely. This also goes for monsters that always spawn when you do a certain action (push button, step on plate, step on spinner square in draracle caves to spawn cavemen, ...).

[Capo]

Originally Posted by theultramage

One engine feature that might be of use to someone...

My usual obsessive skill training involves killing monsters and waiting for them to respawn, over and over again. The cavemen in the draracle caves, the bees in opinwood, the orcs in the yvel forest, the imps in the mines, the ghosts in the tower...

Dont sound funny

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If Electronic Arts had any brains, they'd port Lands of Lore to Nintendo DS - it's the perfect game to be ported: it's bright, colourful, yet is fun and still feels fresh. Orcs & Elves was pretty weak so why not make a PROPER EOTB type game?

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The CD version is really worth it too! Westwood games had a very rare quality of voice actors at the time. While most other games had really terrible actors, Westwood already managed to drag on some top names like Patrick Steward. It made a great game even better!

Man, I remember a friend buying the Temptation collection which had Lands of Lore and me trying to rip it to my 270MB hard drive.

The game also runs fantastic on VDMsound. The Lands of Lore facebook group has a step-by-step walkthrough on how to set up LOL1 and play it without needing a CD or anything (for the CD version too). I don't remember the specifics but the game is hosted on filefront and there's a batch file you have to configure and then the game runs flawlessly.

My favorite game ever

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VDMSound lost interest when DOSBox became good enough to run practically every game. Due to the nature of LCD screens, VDMSound makes games look fuzzy while DOSBox, using DDRAW as output, allows for perfectly sharp images and that's a lot more appealing to me

I guess I never figured out how to use dosbox with that filefront file. >.<

Originally Posted by GordonPolaszkvi

I guess I never figured out how to use dosbox with that filefront file. >.<

Get a front end like D-FEND, from the DOSBox site (go to 'utilities'), it makes running DOS games with DOSBox so much easier. Mouse clicks and a GUI interface is a lot better than commands like 'mount c c:\' !!!

[The Fifth Horseman]

Drive mounting can be automated through DOSBox.conf.
Norton Commander works in DOSBox just fine, and you really don't need a more complex GUI than that.