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1. #DARK LEGIONS DOS MAC OS X#
2. #DARK LEGIONS DOS INSTALL#
3. #DARK LEGIONS DOS UPGRADE#
4. #DARK LEGIONS DOS MAC#
5. #DARK LEGIONS DOS WINDOWS#

The Orb Keeper is like the King in chess: the game is over if he dies.

#DARK LEGIONS DOS UPGRADE#

In the beginning of the game, the player buys their forces with a predefined number of credits, and may purchase any of the 16 characters along with various kinds of traps and even rings of power to upgrade their creatures. The player may play against the computer or another human on a strategic game board. Many reviewers and players note it as an updated version of the 1983 computer game Archon, calling it "Archon with an attitude."ĭark Legions is an action based strategy game.

#DARK LEGIONS DOS WINDOWS#

Wintel users shouldn't bother - game runs OK in Windows (including XP) as long as you have Windows audio legacy drivers.Dark Legions is a 1994 action strategy game for MS-DOS.

#DARK LEGIONS DOS INSTALL#

Install routine broken copy game dir AND install exe from CD to a directory and run install from that directory to configure sound. Gameplay seems slower then i remembered, but my memory might be wrong though. if you get an error about local.msg, make sure you have enabled write permission on all files. copying over the "dark" folder from cd to hd works. Since this game never offered Save options (until a mission was completed), this bug could prove to be slightly irritating when coming close to completing a level and needing info from the F1 screen to complete the mission. CTRL-ALT-DEL does not work - one must return to the Finder and close the window. However, I have noticed that during extensive game play, pressing the F1 key to bring up inventory/menu/map options freezes the game, halting it to a black screen. Original DOS version plays exceptionally well under 0.70 on MacOS X 10.4.9. OK with 0.70, but F1 key causes freeze ( 15:16) The game works but it is a bit laggy, especially the sound, I managed to get the sound lags to minimum using manually editing the dosbox config file, saving it under a new name and playing with it till it works the best I could, of course, it might be related to hardware and not dosbox, I didn't try the game on any version prior to 0.71, got the same results, frontend programs such as D.O.G or Dfend did not let me set everything the way I needed to make the game work best and it is still laggy anyhow, you mostly get laggy sound when skipping movies and picking up items. The game plays well, but I have no sound.

#DARK LEGIONS DOS MAC#

If you're using a Mac like I am, be sure to restore normal Function Key usage in Keyboard & Mouse preferences.

#DARK LEGIONS DOS MAC OS X#

In case anyone is wondering, I'm running Mac OS X Leopard on a MacBook with the Dapplegrey frontend. (You don't have to go through the INSTALL.EXE song and dance, but if you don't you'll have a nice and silent game.) If you try to run INSTALL.EXE from off the CD or anywhere else outside the DARK directory, it won't work. Run the INSTALL.EXE file form inside the DARK hard drive directory and set up sound. In DOSBox, mount the CD-ROM drive and have the CD in drive as Dark Forces will look for the CD when it runs. For the sake of completion, here's everything I did to get the game running well:Ĭopy the "DARK" directory from the CD to your hard drive, and then place the "INSTALL.EXE" file from the CD *inside* the DARK directory. I read the suggestions above but they missed something key. ALT-TAB back into Dos-Box, continue installation normally. Copy sounds.gob again into the DARK subdirectoryģ. Within Dos-Box, run install.exe as described by Shoal, and proceed as he says until you get the "impossible to read message".Ģ. If you have this problem, what you have to do is:ġ. In Windows I could see that the valid sounds.gob file I had copied had turned into a 0-byte file. I continued installation, and could play, but without music and effects during the game (The clipscenes sounded fine). During installation within DOS-Box, I got this message - Imposible leer c:darksounds.gob (impossible to read. I successfully installed the (Spanish) version. It is working perfectly without changing any option in the dosbox configuration file Installed the game from original CD and everything workĮverything went well installing and playing that game. but kind of a crap FPS though.įinished the game without problem ( 12:22)