Dragonflight
Posted: 12 Sep 2022 07:41
To fill the void left by Amberstar I decided to try its predecessor, Dragonflight
What is it about? All the dragons have disappeared and all the magic, too. It is up to you to find the magic scrolls and hopefully eventually find out what happened to the dragons.
It is a big game. I managed to complete it without entering three of the main dungeons, which are also very big.
There is an Atari Games Adapted version available, but I couldn't get it to work on my Ultrasatan setup. The Atari legends Floppy version was a good opportunity to use my floppy emulator which gets very little use. It is not too bad because there is minimum disk swapping.
There were some technical problems. After a while the Disk B image seems to get corrupted and dungeons don't load properly or it crashes when you enter. The game save file was always intact, so I recopied the image and then copied the save file, then it was fine. There is only one save, so backing up regularly is a good idea.
There is no auto mapping and it is essential to get the maps which you can find on the Thalion source and oldgames websites.
On the whole it is a great game, but does suffer from being tedious at times because of how long the game is. Amberstar is more accessible and it is probably better for most people to play that first. The stories are not related.
What is it about? All the dragons have disappeared and all the magic, too. It is up to you to find the magic scrolls and hopefully eventually find out what happened to the dragons.
It is a big game. I managed to complete it without entering three of the main dungeons, which are also very big.
There is an Atari Games Adapted version available, but I couldn't get it to work on my Ultrasatan setup. The Atari legends Floppy version was a good opportunity to use my floppy emulator which gets very little use. It is not too bad because there is minimum disk swapping.
There were some technical problems. After a while the Disk B image seems to get corrupted and dungeons don't load properly or it crashes when you enter. The game save file was always intact, so I recopied the image and then copied the save file, then it was fine. There is only one save, so backing up regularly is a good idea.
There is no auto mapping and it is essential to get the maps which you can find on the Thalion source and oldgames websites.
On the whole it is a great game, but does suffer from being tedious at times because of how long the game is. Amberstar is more accessible and it is probably better for most people to play that first. The stories are not related.