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The Domdaniel!
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2024 8:16 pm
by jlsoler
Is there anybody here who could recognise this game? José Manuel Claros, from the Spanish preservation group around SPA2 has found it and, being a z80 file, not much can be seen from it. We don't know if this is a well known game or if it is already preserved.
To download it:
DOMDANIE.Z80
Thanks in advance!
Re: The Domdaniel!
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2024 8:31 pm
by equinox
jlsoler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2024 8:16 pm
Is there anybody here who could recognise this game? José Manuel Claros, from the Spanish preservation group around SPA2 has found it and, being a z80 file, not much can be seen from it. We don't know if this is a well known game or if it is already preserved.
I was able to decompile it with UNPAWS32:
https://privatebin.io/?f904cef9f2777257 ... o89xoN3Pdk
It looks quite well written and has a generic fantasy setting. (Wikipedia tells us that Domdaniel is "a fictional cavernous hall at the bottom of the ocean where evil magicians, spirits, and gnomes meet".)
I can't seem to find anything on the Web. Searching for the game's magic word
ABARA KAZAPP
locates nothing.
Re: The Domdaniel!
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:56 pm
by 8BitAG
It's not an already known game.
It was produced with the earlier version of the Quill by the looks of things. Feels like unpolished homebrew... I think the author probably ran out of space as a huge chunk of memory is take up by those location descriptions.
Re: The Domdaniel!
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 1:20 pm
by C.Born
fuse mentions it needs IF1.2 rom for this snap.
was the original on MDR ?
is the font equal to the startrek type-in ??
edit, NO, its not
Re: The Domdaniel!
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2024 6:44 am
by equinox
C.Born wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 1:20 pm
is the font equal to the startrek type-in ??
edit, NO, its not
I've seen that vertically-challenged "sci-fi" font in a million Speccy adventures. It was bundled with the Quill, presumably. I think you also got the cod-Irish one used on O'Neill's pubs.
Re: The Domdaniel!
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:02 am
by 8BitAG
It wasn't bundled with the Quill, but there was a Characters pack from Gilsoft which had a lot of the fonts you'll see commonly used in homegrown adventures. The font pack was also released in an earlier form by Kevin Maddocks (Sigmasoft/King) and many of the same fonts were later licensed and bundled with the PAW. It was quite common for authors to rip a font from another game too. Fergus' Delta 4 font was a popular one to steal, I think.
It's Kevin's set #4 used here.
