Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

[Monstrous Bat]

Who the fuck use smartphone to play DOS games? Keyboard-controlled ones, no less...

 

[Alchemist]

Something like the old Droid would be better for DOS emulation - since it has a keyboard:

I actually tried it with one of these back when I used a Droid. Works reasonably well if you can get the keys mapped correctly.

 

[Servo]

Who the fuck use smartphone to play DOS games? Keyboard-controlled ones, no less...

As much as I hate touch devices I would probably try it if I had one. Same goes for GemRB or whatever emulates the Infinity Engine on Android.

Because if you're gonna be stuck on a bus or whatever why not? Beats most mobile "games."

 

[Jaesun]

Yeah, I'm only playing GttSF on my iPhone when on the bus. I will be playing Pool of Radiance on my PC as soon as my Forgotten Realms Archives Silver Edition CD/Manual/Code-wheel comes in the mail. <3

 

[Deuce Traveler]

I still need to finish some of the fan-made D&D adventure paths built for the FRUA system. I'd like to do another Let's Play of them, but I don't have enough time to keep do a decent LP at this time.

 

[Sceptic]

Yeah, I'm only playing GttSF on my iPhone when on the bus. I will be playing Pool of Radiance on my PC as soon as my Forgotten Realms Archives Silver Edition CD/Manual/Code-wheel comes in the mail. <3

You should play the Krynn trilogy in MT-32 mode

 

[Jaesun]

Yeah, I'm only playing GttSF on my iPhone when on the bus. I will be playing Pool of Radiance on my PC as soon as my Forgotten Realms Archives Silver Edition CD/Manual/Code-wheel comes in the mail. <3

You should play the Krynn trilogy in MT-32 mode

Do those game have an actual MIDI music option? I don't remember that.

 

[Kirben]

You should play the Krynn trilogy in MT-32 mode

Do those game have an actual MIDI music option? I don't remember that.

Champions of Krynn and Dark Queen of Krynn offered Roland support for music, but not Death Knights of Krynn for some strange reason.

Buck Rodgers: Matrix Cubed was the only other Gold Box game to offer Roland support, a shame SSI didn't offer MIDI support in more titles.

 

[Sceptic]

of 2015 newfags.

Always good to have another Roland fan on board

 

[Desktop Commander]

Thanks dude! I finally was able to do a quick search, and looking at that EBay item, that company Slash Corporation did indeed sell CD versions of some D&D games. So I bought that copy, thanks! :D

Np. I, too, am also constantly looking for CD releases of my favourite oldies, as they are so much easier to back up than floppies (especially 5.52 ones).

Champions of Krynn and Dark Queen of Krynn offered Roland support for music, but not Death Knights of Krynn for some strange reason.

Yup, it's weird. I also remember the Magic Candle series to be similar in that regard, where MC2 had Roland support, yet none of the subsequent games (Neither MC3 nor Bloodstone) did. Always a shame.

 

[eXalted]

Do you recommend some of the SSI games for someone like me who have never played them in the past?

I mean, there won't be that nostalgia feel that will empower my playthrough. I really dig how they look. Is the interface super unintuitive?

 

[Revenant]

Play Dark Sun: Shattered Lands if you want an SSI game with an intuitive interface. As for GoldBoxes, their interfaces are intuitive to the extent that you don't need to refer to the manual for controls, as command words have a bold first letter to indicate the corresponding keypress.

As for which game to start with, it's definitely Pool of Radiance. Although other GoldBoxes have a slightly more streamlined interface, you shouldn't miss the original experience.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

And if you ever wanted to play the classic D&D modules but can't find a group to play with, then Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures is for you. See Jaesun's old thread here: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...ealms-unlimited-adventures-frua-thread.61909/

 

[Jaesun]

My Forgotten Realms Archives Silver CD and Manual and code-wheels came in the mail yesterday. Playing Pool of Radiance. Never played with the Tandy sounds on before. Much better than the PC beeps and boops. :D

 

[GarfunkeL]

How did you get them working?

 

[Morblot]

Here's a handy Tandy guide for PoR & DOSBox: https://bitomoander.runboard.com/t213,offset=20

 

[Jaesun]

How did you get them working?

I use D Fend Reloaded (which is currently down due to some sourceforge problem at the moment?).

In the POOLS.CFG change the second line to a T

In D Fend Reloaded under the SOUND tab, in the Tandy Speaker section, check the On option (just setting it to Auto did nothing, but selecting the On worked for me).

(If you are managing DOSBox manually, in the DOSBox.conf file, just locate the [speaker] section and change tandy=auto to tandy=on)

Enjoy your THREE TONE sounds in Pool of Radiance!

 

[Sceptic]

In D Fend Reloaded under the SOUND tab, in the Tandy Speaker section, check the On option (just setting it to Auto did nothing, but selecting the On worked for me).

Auto means that it will turn on Tandy sound if you have machine=tandy, not otherwise. I don't recommend it because there are almost no cases in which you'd want tandy graphics, but plenty of cases in which you'd want tandy sound with VGA graphics.

 

[Jaesun]

Auto means that it will turn on Tandy sound if you have machine=tandy, not otherwise. I don't recommend it because there are almost no cases in which you'd want tandy graphics, but plenty of cases in which you'd want tandy sound with VGA graphics.

Thanks! I had forgotten what the AUTO for that option meant. Yeah, there is not really (any?) reason to use Tandy graphics for a game.

 

[Jaesun]

JFC! Been playing Gateway to the Savage Frontier, and I'm at the Gallant Prince Ghoul and Mage battle. FFS! This version of the Gold Box has the fucking buggy if you charm an enemy, but then attack them YOUR FOLLOWERS WILL NOW ATTACK YOU, AND YOU CAN'T END COMBAT UNLESS YOU KILL OR CHARM THEM.



I should just kill the fucking asshole and just drag his corpse around (I don't think there is a check to see if an NPC is dead, for conversation in this version of the Gold Box).

 

[Grathanich]

I remember being unable to progress in Dark Queen of Krynn in the caves of the dragons. I used a hex editor on my Amiga 500 to search the coordinates of the party. I found them, increased one of them by one, failed, tried the other and I was inside the room with the vorpal sword! Another very fond memory of mine includes using technical drawing paper to map the Secret of the Silver Blades. Since there was no Internet or another way to purchase the game in Turkey in 1995, the game was a pirated copy and did not include the journals.
To be honest, I think even killing dragons in Skyrim in fully modded HD look with Requiem/Perma or whatever mods does not provide the same level of satisfaction when I got that silver armor set in SotSB as a teenager.

 

[Jaesun]

I wonder if anyone has made a map/documented all of the magic items you can find in Pool of Radiance? The closest thing I could find was http://rhwiii.info/blog/game-faqs/s...ance-walkthrough/part-4-adventure/2-the-slums

I never realized how many magic items there are in the Slums.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I compared that site with the PoR Clue Book entry for the Slums, the Clue Book gives more precise instructions on where to find the magic treasure, but the site gives more info and number-crunching on what you'll find or is your best course of action in certain encounters.

 

[ProphetSword]

In my day we didn't need number-crunching sites. We killed orcs and goblins, took whatever crap they dropped, and we liked it!

 

[Jaesun]

So I have been messing around in Pool of Radiance, and I have cleared all the slums except for the FUCKING TROLL BATTLE. I kept re-loading and trying different tactics, but to no avail. I kept thinking "How in the fuck is a FIRST level party supposed to do this F^%$#@ battle????"

I then happened to just look at the stats of one of my clerics. They (and the rest of the party) have a ton of XP to go up a level or two.

I keep forgetting this first version of the Gold Box Games has built in MORAN detectors.

Also when doing some search on Pool of Radiance and some other stuff, I found out both Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds have a command option to turn the password check off.

When running Pool, just type start STING (this command must be all caps).

When running Curse, just type start STING Wooden (this must be typed like this exactly).

They never added these commands to other gold box games, so these are the only two I know of.