OT: Flowers for the grave of MoM.

[Scott Hebert]

Ah, MoM.

My favorite strategies were, in no particular order:

1. Myrran Halflings. Halflings with Adamantium kill everything dead. Missile immunity does not help you.

2. Wraith rush.

3. Torin rush.

[Pocus]

I miss the exploration aspect that was present in MoM (discovering new uncharted lands, exploring the small dungeons giving goodies for a tough fight).

I liked also the idea of the lair which released from time to time a party of neutral rampaging units.

[Anglachel]

Originally posted by Endoperez:

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Originally posted by PrinzMegaherz:

If that is what you whish, here you go: Dosbox

Emulates a complete computer that is capable of running most of the older games... I'm using it for Mom, Dungeon MAster and Star Control, also the Last one got some graphical errors

I posted the same at ADOM newsgroup a while ago, but someone there told me that MoM works too slow with DosBox. He gave link to an AbandonLoader in return, and it runs both MoM and Betrayal at Krondor. It seems the latter one is harder to get to work...
AbandonLoader can be downloaded from that page, but I haven't tested it myself...

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You are right about Dosbox being slow running Master of Magic but when I try to run MOM on AbandonLoader it gives me that "You must have 2700k of expanded memory" message without running the game at all. Anyone familiar with this that can help me out? Thanks for answering.

Edit: Ok, figured it out by reading the newbie guide to dosbox more closely. Running smoothly now.

[ April 25, 2004, 23:19: Message edited by: Anglachel ]

[PrinzMegaherz]

I posted the same at ADOM newsgroup a while ago, but someone there told me that MoM works too slow with DosBox.

I dont have any problems with MoM. Just keep adding cycles (STR + F12 if memory serves me right) until its fine.

One thing I did not like about MoM was the fact that Item creation took so very very long. Hurray for Dominions

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by PrinzMegaherz:
One thing I did not like about MoM was the fact that Item creation took so very very long. Hurray for Dominions

Item Creation took so very very long only if you were a lousy wizard making an obscenely powerful item. Of course, you could also make very nice, obscenely broken items.

[Kel]

I didn't even like making them at all when I could find such nifty items in lairs and nodes !

- Kel

[FadingSuns]

MoM alone caused me to upgrade my computer. The animation for the nodes brought my 486 to a stuttering standstill. I loved the game enough to sink cash into a new system just to get that one part to run smoothly.
Dom2 might do the same for me now. I can run the battles smoothly with the 'world' hidden, but where's the fun with that? Lush battle graphics deserve to be seen!
MoM is still going to be #1 for me, at least until I start being able to stomp some races in Dom2. Gotta love the Myrror world!