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Getting Started.
There really isn't a lot I can tell you about this game- it's all pretty
straightforward. There are a few little tricks, though, that aren?t
intuitive or spelled out in the instructions.
SOUND:
First, run SETUP.EXE. Choose Sound Off unless your sound card is on what
the author calls the usual defaults of 330H, IRQ 2 and DMA 1. The
address and DMA channel he gives are indeed standard default values for
Sound Blaster sound cards and their clones, but they normally come set
for IRQ 5. So, if you want sound you'll have to physically move or
remove any device that's already using IRQ2, then (for a Sound Blaster
16 like I have) run their DIAGNOSE program. It says 220H is the default
address. That's OK. Later it'll show 330H as the default MPU MIDI
address. That's the one this game uses. Other sound cards might have to
be physically jumpered for these settings. Make sure the address,
interrupt (especially) and DMA do not conflict with any other devices
on your system.
Note that SETUP will bomb during the video and mouse test if you don't
have a mouse and mouse driver installed. It'll show an error in
SETUP.EXE at address such-and-such, and say hit any key to return to
system.
Setting up sound for this game is tricky. I never could get it to work
on my system, which is a clone 486DX2/66 running Windows 95, with a
Sound Blaster 16 and a double-speed CD-ROM. I tried setting up the sound
card the way the game wanted then booting up to a DOS prompt only, but
still get no sound. The author even admits that the sound setup isn't
the best, and promises to fix it
in his next game, Madman. So unless you're lucky you'll have to do
without sound effects and music.
PLAYING:
Read the file README.TXT, then run WRAITH.EXE. View the introduction,
then choose Create a Character. This is a new feature in the Ultizurk
games. You can choose between Warrior, Druid, Ranger and Paladin, and
between playing a man or woman. I chose to play a male druid, due to
my Irish heritage and the fact that I am male. I don't know whether or
not the type of character affects the game, other than maybe in the
stats you start with- a druid has lower hit points but higher mana than
a warrior, I think. Since I ended up mostly fighting the monsters using
a ranged weapon (boomerang) I would have been better off being a
warrior. It would be interesting to play the game as a woman character
and see if the dialogue between you and the mermaid queen is any
different that it was for me as a man. I started to do so, and the queen
still called me "my love" and such. Hmmm...
I noticed that when I started as a druid I had a leather helm and a
magic wand, and as a warrior I had a chain-mail helm, a kite shield and
a sword. It's of little importance, as the game allows even a druid to
wear any armor and use any weapons, and these items are to be found all
over in the dungeons, especially at higher levels. (Note: I tried this
after I wrote the paragraph above that says I don't know if the
character type affects the game in any way besides starting stats).
PLAYER INTERFACE AND STARTING OUT:
Next, select New Game. You'll come up in the main screen then go right
to a dialogue screen. See info on Other Commands (Look and Talk) below.
You'll then come up in the main game screen. The player interface uses a
combination of mouse and keyboard controls. As explained in README.TXT,
the keys F, S and U control the speed at which the character moves when
using the mouse to control movement. Move the cursor near to the
character until it changes to a direction arrow., then hold down your
left mouse button to move. Move the cursor around until the arrow
changes directions to move the character another direction. You can
leave the mouse button held down while doing this if you want to.
You can also use the arrows on your numeric keypad (Num Lock on, please)
to control movement. This is handy for fine control, if you just want to
move on space at a time for example. Another key you'll use is the
escape key, to exit from map mode back to the regular game screen. More
on this later.
The icons are kind of self-explanatory. Your pack inventory is always
visible. The icons at the bottom show a hand with something in it- this
means USE an item. The empty hand is used to GET an item from the main
screen and put it in your pack. The MAP icon displays an overhead map
of the dungeon level that you're currently on. Red dots indicate
monsters, a green dot is you. The diskette icon pulls up a menu of disk
commands, which are activated by hitting the appropriate keys on your
keyboard: S to save the game (you'll be prompted to hit Y to really
save, or N to continue playing), L to load a saved game (if you chose
new game by accident from the main menu and want to continue a game in
progress instead), Q to quit to DOS and R to exit the disk menu and
continue playing- in case you'd clicked the disk icon by mistake. I kept
mixing up the GET and USE hand icons. Get is the empty hand, USE is the
hand holding the blue ball thingy.
If weapons or armor are in your pack you need to click on them with the
left mouse button, move them to the appropriate location on your body
(head, body, right hand and left hand) then click it again to put it
there.
Once you've saved a game then exited back to DOS, you can choose to
continue playing the saved game from the main game menu. You don't have
to start a new game then reload your saved one from the disk menu,
although you can do it this way.
ITEMS:
Items such as food, tools (a fishing pole), herbs (clovers), weapons,
armor and scrolls are to be found laying around all over. They aren't
inside chests and aren't buried anywhere. Just stand next to them, click
the GET icon then click on the item you want to pick up.. To use an item
from your inventory, click the USE icon then click on the object.
Weapons and armor cannot be used from your inventory, but other items
can.
Scrolls can't be used from the main game screen- you have to pick them
up and use them from your inventory. After a scroll's contents are
displayed, click the left mouse button to exit this view and go back to
the main game screen. This one had me stuck for awhile- I was trying to
hit enter and escape, and ended up having to reboot my computer. I
thought it was locking up! I finally figured out that clicking the
mouse is what I needed to do. You have to use it from within
your inventory in order to read it. If you want, you can write down what
it says (or just remember it) or hit your Print Screen button to print
it if you have a graphics-capable printer, then drop the scroll when
you're through. You can do the same thing for your overhead map of each
dungeon level if you want a hard copy of the maps. There isn't really
any need for this, though, since you can display a map of each entire
level anytime you want by clicking on the map icon.
If you're playing this from within Windows (not recommended by the
author, although I had no trouble doing so using Windows 95) hitting
Print Screen captures the current screen to the clipboard. You'll then
need save then quit the game, and go open some other piece of
software that will allow you to paste this screen capture- Windows Paint
or Wordpad (or Write) will do. Then print it from within that program.
You can drop items anywhere there is empty floor space next to you. You
can't drop something on a dungeon wall, but you can on the regular dirt
(or whatever) floor. You don't need to be near a tile floor or chest to
drop items. You can even drop them on top of each other. To drop an
item that's in your pack, just click on it then move it to an area on
the floor next to where you're standing in the main game screen then
click again. To pick it back up, click the GET icon then click on the
object.
If you want to replace an item of armor that you're already wearing or a
weapon you have in your hand with another one from your pack, you don't
need to remove the old one first. Just click on the new one from your
pack then click on the body location you want to move it to. The old
item will automatically be moved to your pack.
OTHER COMMANDS (LOOK, TALK)
To look at an object either in the main screen or in your pack, click on
it with your right mouse button. To talk to someone, just move up next
to them. If they've anything to say to you the dialog screen will
appear. The character that you're talking to will be on the top half of
the screen and you'll be in the lower half. Next to your picture will be
a series of sentences with bullets to the left of them. Click on each of
these, one at a time, and read what the character says in reply. After
you've clicked on the last bullet item you'll be automatically returned
to the main screen. Sometimes there might be a long pause when a
character's dialogue is displayed, Just wait- don't click or hit enter
or anything, or the next screenful of dialogue (if there is one) will
pop up and disappear before you get a chance to read it.
COMBAT:
To attack a monster just right-click on it. If you're not using a ranged
weapon you'll need to be standing right next to the critter. Be alert:
the monsters will move around during combat so you'll have to keep
moving the mouse cursor accordingly, otherwise you'll miss and they
won't!
MONSTERS:
There are purple spiders, blue gazers that look like spiders but with
short legs, red liches, blue nagas and white skeletal knights. I
recommend avoiding them all except the spiders, which are the easiest to
kill, until you've increased in level enough to have enough hit points
to last in combat with the others. You might want to tackle the lava
liches too, because they're next easiest to kill. I also recommend
getting ahold of a boomerang as soon as possible- there are some in the
second-level dungeon. |
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