If you have not played it, get it now and do it. Make sure you get a copy of the map and read the 5 chapter novel.

>>11865039 (OP)
I actually just started playing it (after reading the novella). Really liking it so far. Midwinter was amazing too, but the action-y gameplay parts with the low framerate didn't age quite as well as LoM's gameplay.

For those who were going to ask: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lords_of_Midnight

>game comes bundled with a full-length novel
SOVL

Did anyone play Midnight/MU? I remember trying it once but I think I was too young and bounced off it.

>>11865142
It's just got real atmosphere, also as a game its just phenomenal, seeing the armies spread on the lanscape marching to your citadel. all the incredible detail. This did a first person war better than syrims civil war by far and it did it in 48K
>>11865564
After Lord of Midnight the next game is Doomdarks revenge and its very pretty with landscapes that have graduated lighting ans the hour of the day moves and more types of evviromment but teh originnal Lords of idnight manages to be extremely immersive. You can actual feel nervous if you a lonne Lord racing to join up with other lords with Doomdarks armies spread out in a plain behind you and the relief when you see a citadel visible on the horizon. Its a fantastic fantastic game and quite challenging.

The original needs a complete remaster into something like a skyrim engine with armies visible and it would be breathtaking.

>>11865564
I never played it no, it looks really innteresting thank you

>>11865142
>I actually just started playing it (after reading the novella). Really liking it so far. Midwinter was amazing too, but the action-y gameplay parts with the low framerate didn't age quite as well as LoM's gameplay.
It's aged very well cosidering, after half an hour of play when you first see enemy armies on the plains of blood it's got you

I'm playing it again and cocentrating all my armies at the citadel of xajorkith doen south to see if they canhold. I'm going for a military win and just keeping morkin alive but not going for the ice crown

Are the free remakes on GOG a good way to play them?

https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_lords_of_midnight

https://www.gog.com/en/game/doomdarks_revenge

Whem I'be beaten it militarily a couple of times I'm going to fo the same in Doomdarks revenge

>>11865605
Honestly for me the original spectum one in an emulator but the commodore 64 one should be very similar, I always play games on whatever they first released for. I know there was a lot of love put into the remakes but the strange cold atnosphere you get from the graphics of the original is part of their buzz for me.

I genuinely think its the greatest game ever made. The author Mike Singleton was a genuine coding genius

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Singleton

>>11865318
You got a box with a map on the back, a fiev chapter novel with great art and the map on teh back (and you *need8 That map to play and if you read the novel its full of clues, like when the sun rises over the land its telling you a lot about where things are and manual a keyboard over lay. Stuff like Elite for teh * Bits used also have massive amounts of stuff in the box, posters, thick manuals, charts keyboard overlays or empire earth, guship 2000 etc etc. Now.Nothing.

Oh might be of interest since you are all retro fans, the original casette tape I have from 1884 still loads the game from a tape recorder via the original leads innto a spectrum 48K (I did have to replace the keyboard membrane but that was cheap and easy). I'd never have imagined that magnetic tapes would last 40 years and still have the intactness to load (they were finicky enough back in the day sometimes) but it does

>>11865689
>1884 still loads
1984
typo fixed I am ancient but not that ancient!

>>11865689
>>11865690
That's pretty cool.

>>11865039 (OP)
Hello frens!

>>11865692
Hearing the whistles and speaks after 40 years wa amazing. They said
"Come with me and we can be young together again"

>>11865039 (OP)
Same here, an all-time favorite

>>11865039 (OP)
What's the gameplay like? It looks like a text adventure

>>11865190
What compels anons to make threads like this without saying the name of the game?

>>11865991
Oi. Me Speccy.

>>11865989
>What's the gameplay like? It looks like a text adventure
Its probably the earliest FPS. You get to move in the direction of the compass points, recruit moe characters who can have armies attached, look for objects in different settings,shelter, horses, serecuit troops etc etc magic swords, fight or avoid wildlife but ultimately it is a very big FPS wargame. There is also a LOTR syle quest where one character goes alone to the witchkings fortress to try and destoy the ice crown. Its turn based the end of a turn being night when battles are resolved, it has a good morale and fatigue system effected by the landscape and events. and moral is effected by the witchkings magic drawn from winter You see fortresses, forests buildings get bigger as you move towards them and enemy armies moving in the distance. You have to try it really. It was computer and video games goden joystick winner (hall of fame for retro games) (the first game award). If you don't know what computer and video games or titles like Crash, the Big K, Sinclair User, Personal computing weekly etc and you are into retro games you are in for a massive trail of discovery, inncluding into how early games were written as most of these magazine had listings of basic and assembler and later tapes with demos of games on the cover>>11866008
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>>11865991
Sorry its a retro board and its a very very famous game and known by retro game enthusiasts. There were still PC ports being made in 1995 11 years after it released and it was ported to thecommodore etc etc. You know you can click on the little right arrow on a post header and do an image seach which would tell you in a second anyway?

Here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Joystick_Awards
>>11866008
Spectrum was huge in Portugal, Italy, Ireland Spain etc as well.

>>11865989
>What's the gameplay like? It looks like a text adventure
No its not a text adventure this is the controls, it came with a keyboard overlay you placed on the kreyboard pic related, so did many other games incuding Elite (another very important game) which is the ancestor of Elite Dangerous

>>11866879
>it came with a keyboard overlay you placed on the kreyboard pic relate
sry

Its great, give it ago but make sure you have the map

>>11865924
It just is, Mike Singleton was a genius.

>>11865039 (OP)
>This is the greatest game ever made
It's up there for sure. 100% the best LotR game ever made.

>>11866889
When you consider it was done in 48K and how ahead of its time it was the thing I was mazed by is it still holds up, it really does, it hs an atnosphere all of its own. That's incredible.

>>11866856
>its a very very famous game

Nothing against the game, which I will try and probably enjoy and possibly come to adore for all I know, but this is not true.

>>11867345
It genuinely is a famous game (for good reasons). Its well loved by millions to this day. You learned something new, relax.

>>11867797
You dropped your "very very", without which I would not have objected. Anyway I'll still try the game (eventually) even though at least one of its fans is annoying.

>>11866856
>>11866879
>>11866881
It looks way more interesting in videos than some screenshots. The scrolling around the map is cool for such an old game. I bet that was impressive when it came out.

>>11865708
What happened to the marbel top?

can someone explain in moron speak how you can put a video game on a tape? and how do you use it? do you have to rewind or fast forward it to change levels e.g.?

>>11868242
The computer slowly reads the whole game from the tape and copies it into the RAM. Then you can play it.
Tape based games often took 30 minutes to start.
Emulators usually have methods to speed this up.

>>11868265
>Tape based games often took 30 minutes to start.
No they did not. A few minutes for Lords of midnight
>>11868242
Its called modulation and demodulation, the oncersion of a stream of bits (1s and 0s) into noise. The spectrum or other computers that could use tales had a plug for a monno microphone cable and a mono inoput cable. Thes eplugged innto atape recorder, if you wanted to load something on the spectrum, you typically typed
LOAD "" and pressed enter
The computer would then start 'listening'. You pressed pay on the tape recorder and it plays a series of whistles sqeaks etc and when the loading sequence is reads an end of mile marker it executes the data loaded into memory from the tape. Small 48 or 64K games like on a commodore or spectrum do;t cvery little time. To save the same process, you write a program
like
10 print "practise saving"
20 Goto 10

and then
save "myprog"

and then insert a blank casette inn your recorder and press play and press enter
The computer generates whisles and squears representing the ones and zeros and its recorded to the tape as noise. You can just play the tape and listen and you will hear electronic beeps and squeaks.
The same techology was used to connect to the internet before you were born over phone lines by playing data convereted to noise over a phone line and the other end listening and recieveing (simplfyied).

here's a random youtube video showing you what it sounded like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rqxz23IxRY


, on the spectrum typically a graphical 'loading screen' would be rendered during the loading and flastinng bars around the screen acting as a visual monitor and represetation of the date being recieved

A lot of games in the very early era of computing on 1K to 64K machinens were typed in my hand, typically clones of stuff like cetipede or text adventure games. Magazines would publish them

>>11868265
>Tape based games often took 30 minutes to start.
Please stop making stuff up and lying to people, its just sad to see someone doing that


>>11868242
Pic related, boxes around the castette player, the mic and out put cable that ran to the pack of the computer and the tape of lords of midnight

>>11867897
it was awesome still is lot of depth in the game itself

>>11867906
>What happened to the marbel top?
not sure what you mean anon but that stuff is roughly 41 years old that model of spectrum came out in 1982 and the game in 1984.

>>11868242
Typos fixed
Its called modulation and demodulation, the connversion of a stream of bits (1s and 0s) into noise. The spectrum or other computers that could use tapes had a plug for a monno microphone cable and a mono inoput cable. These plugged into a tape recorder, if you wanted to load something on the spectrum, you typically typed
LOAD "" and pressed enter
The computer would then start 'listening'. You pressed play on the tape recorder and it plays a series of whistles sqeaks etc and when the loading sequence is reads an end of file marker it executes the data loaded into memory from the tape. Small 48 or 64K games like on a commodore or spectrum do it cvery little time, a few minutes. To save the same process, you write a program
like
10 print "practise saving"
20 Goto 10

and then
save "myprog"

and then insert a blank casette in your recorder and press record on it and press enter
The computer generates noise representing the ones and zeros and its recorded to the tape. You can just play the tape and listen and you will hear electronic beeps and squeaks.
The same technology was used to connect to the internet before you were born over phone lines by playing data convereted to noise over a phone line and the other end listening and recieveing (simplfyied).

here's a random youtube video showing you what it sounded like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rqxz23IxRY [Embed]


On the spectrum typically a graphical 'loading screen' would be rendered during the loading and flastinng bars around the screen acting as a visual monitor and represetation of the data being recieved

A lot of games in the very early era of computing on 1K to 64K machinens were typed in my hand, typically clones of stuff like cetipede or text adventure games. Magazines would publish them.

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