Hey, no way! Wow, there’s lot of great stuff on this old CD. For example, I found a copy of my old game “Caerion,” which I programmed in PASCAL back in high school. I thought it lost forever. I even got it running on my MacBook using a free DOS emulator called Boxer:
I had big plans for this game (hence the overly-optimistic designation of map “6”), but not long after this version was created I ran up against a memory limit in my PASCAL compiler, and I decided to move on to other programming languages. So the game’s only got two maps. This makes the Gauntlet-style single player/co-op mode (“Quest”) a bit pointless (and the monsters move way too fast in my emulator), but the Doom-style multiplayer deathmatch mode (“Duel”) is still pretty fun, and my friends and I actually spent a fair amount of time playing it. And it’s available now as FREE download! If nothing else you should witness the devastating power of the “Firedeath” spell; I’m still pretty proud of that one.
Leave a Reply