Hi. if you go to http://eamon-guild.blogspot.com/2012/03/eamon-deluxe-50-demo-adventure.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FVPAjM+%28Eamon+Adventurer%27s+Guild+Online%29 You'll find that the first of the new Eamon deluxe adventures has been released as a demo.
This is a short hack through a dungeon fighting off some ogre smugglers (for a full review by yours truly see the above link), and is just meant to show off the system and give you an idea of what Eamon is like. You'll need a 32 bit windows system such as xp for this, sinse the Eamon deluxe is obviously a system written in basic, and thus uses the command window, so won't run on 64 bit machines without using dosbox which is inaccessible to screen readers. Unfortunately, though we've looked at several alternatives over the course of testing, we haven't found a way around this problem as yet. if however you can run it, it's certainly worth a play, and the demo adventure should give some idea about what else is on offer (albeit that it's a fairly simple outing compared to some Eamons). Lots of screen reader compatibility has been added, and it's been tested with hal, Jaws, window eyes and nvda, though you may need a review curser to read the screen. Get the demo adventure at http://eamonag.org/programs/EamonDX/EamonDeluxe01SA_VI_Win32.exe For those who don't know, Eamon was a system of textual rpgs mostly written in the 1980's (though there are still games written in it to this day), for the Apple Ii computers. They were different from standard interactive fiction in that the parza was far simpler and so lead to much less frustrating puzzles, with for instance one command for getting items rather than several, ---- though some Eamon adventures certainly did! have their share of puzzles). The two big differences betwene Eamon and standard interactive fiction systems such as Zcode, are that Eamon features D&D like stats and turn based combat, with experience and weapon wielding, and the fact that you carry on the same character through multiple adventures. Even the treasure you find in your adventuring has a point, sinse after each adventure you sell your loot and return to the main hall of the Eamon guild of Free adventurers, where you can use your money to buy better weapons, armour, spells and stat upgrades for your character, thus making even fairly short dungeon treasure grabbing runs (such as the Demo adventure above), serve something more of a point. I must admit I rather enjoy the system myself, and though some adventures are dire, ---- as indeed is the way with anything with multiple authors, some are truly fantastic, and indeed I'll confess to even quite enjoying the dungeon hacks! :D. Hope people like this one and are looking forward to the full Eamon deluxe release as much as I am.. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
