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Getting Started.
There really isn't a lot I can tell you about this game- it's all pretty
straightforward. There are a few little tricks, though, that aren?t
intuitive or spelled out in the instructions.
SOUND:
First, run SETUP.EXE. Choose Sound Off unless your sound card is on what
the author calls the usual defaults of 330H, IRQ 2 and DMA 1. The address
and DMA channel he gives are indeed standard default values for Sound
Blaster sound cards and their clones, but they normally come set for IRQ
5. So, if you want sound you'll have to physically move or remove any
device that's already using IRQ2, then (for a Sound Blaster 16 like I
have) run their DIAGNOSE program. It says 220H is the default address.
That's OK. Later it'll show 330H as the default MPU MIDI address.
That's the one this game uses. Other sound cards might have to be
physically jumpered for these settings. Make sure the address, interrupt
(especially) and DMA do not conflict with any other devices on your
system.
Note that SETUP will bomb during the video and mouse test if you don't
have a mouse and mouse driver installed. It'll show an error in SETUP.EXE
at address such-and-such, and say hit any key to return to system.
Setting up sound for this game is tricky. I never could get it to work on
my system, which is a clone 486DX2/66 running Windows 95, with a Sound
Blaster 16 and a double-speed CD-ROM. I tried setting up the sound card
the way the game wanted then booting up to a DOS prompt only, but
still get no sound. The author even admits that the sound setup isn't the
best, and promises to fix it
in his next game, Madman. So unless you're lucky you'll have to do without
sound effects and music.
PLAYING:
Read the file README.TXT, then run WRAITH.EXE. View the introduction, then
choose Create a Character. This is a new feature in the Ultizurk games.
You can choose between Warrior, Druid, Ranger and Paladin, and between
playing a man or woman. I chose to play a male druid, due to my Irish
heritage and the fact that I am male. I don't know whether or not the type
of character affects the game, other than maybe in the stats you start
with- a druid has lower hit points but higher mana than a warrior, I
think. Since I ended up mostly fighting the monsters using a ranged weapon
(boomerang) I would have been better off being a warrior. It would be
interesting to play the game as a woman character and see if the dialogue
between you and the mermaid queen is any different that it was for me as a
man. I started to do so, and the queen still called me "my love" and such.
Hmmm...
I noticed that when I started as a druid I had a leather helm and a magic
wand, and as a warrior I had a chain-mail helm, a kite shield and a sword.
It's of little importance, as the game allows even a druid to wear any
armor and use any weapons, and these items are to be found all over in the
dungeons, especially at higher levels. (Note: I tried this after I wrote
the paragraph above that says I don't know if the character type affects
the game in any way besides starting stats).
PLAYER INTERFACE AND STARTING OUT:
Next, select New Game. You'll come up in the main screen then go right to
a dialogue screen. See info on Other Commands (Look and Talk) below.
You'll then come up in the main game screen. The player interface uses a
combination of mouse and keyboard controls. As explained in README.TXT,
the keys F, S and U control the speed at which the character moves when
using the mouse to control movement. Move the cursor near to the
character until it changes to a direction arrow., then hold down your left
mouse button to move. Move the cursor around until the arrow changes
directions to move the character another direction. You can leave the
mouse button held down while doing this if you want to.
You can also use the arrows on your numeric keypad (Num Lock on, please)
to control movement. This is handy for fine control, if you just want to
move on space at a time for example. Another key you'll use is the escape
key, to exit from map mode back to the regular game screen. More on this
later.
The icons are kind of self-explanatory. Your pack inventory is always
visible. The icons at the bottom show a hand with something in it- this
means USE an item. The empty hand is used to GET an item from the main
screen and put it in your pack. The MAP icon displays an overhead map
of the dungeon level that you're currently on. Red dots indicate monsters,
a green dot is you. The diskette icon pulls up a menu of disk commands,
which are activated by hitting the appropriate keys on your keyboard: S to
save the game (you'll be prompted to hit Y to really save, or N
to continue playing), L to load a saved game (if you chose new game by
accident from the main menu and want to continue a game in progress
instead), Q to quit to DOS and R to exit the disk menu and continue
playing- in case you'd clicked the disk icon by mistake. I kept mixing up
the GET and USE hand icons. Get is the empty hand, USE is the hand holding
the blue ball thingy.
If weapons or armor are in your pack you need to click on them with the
left mouse button, move them to the appropriate location on your body
(head, body, right hand and left hand) then click it again to put it
there.
Once you've saved a game then exited back to DOS, you can choose to
continue playing the saved game from the main game menu. You don't have to
start a new game then reload your saved one from the disk menu, although
you can do it this way.
ITEMS:
Items such as food, tools (a fishing pole), herbs (clovers), weapons,
armor and scrolls are to be found laying around all over. They aren't
inside chests and aren't buried anywhere. Just stand next to them, click
the GET icon then click on the item you want to pick up.. To use an item
from your inventory, click the USE icon then click on the object. Weapons
and armor cannot be used from your inventory, but other items can.
Scrolls can't be used from the main game screen- you have to pick them up
and use them from your inventory. After a scroll's contents are displayed,
click the left mouse button to exit this view and go back to the main game
screen. This one had me stuck for awhile- I was trying to hit enter and
escape, and ended up having to reboot my computer. I thought it was
locking up! I finally figured out that clicking the mouse is what I
needed to do. You have to use it from within your inventory in order to
read it. If you want, you can write down what it says (or just remember
it) or hit your Print Screen button to print it if you have a
graphics-capable printer, then drop the scroll when you're through. You
can do the same thing for your overhead map of each dungeon level if you
want a hard copy of the maps. There isn't really any need for this,
though, since you can display a map of each entire level anytime you want
by clicking on the map icon.
If you're playing this from within Windows (not recommended by the author,
although I had no trouble doing so using Windows 95) hitting Print Screen
captures the current screen to the clipboard. You'll then need save then
quit the game, and go open some other piece of software that will allow
you to paste this screen capture- Windows Paint or Wordpad (or Write)
will do. Then print it from within that program.
You can drop items anywhere there is empty floor space next to you. You
can't drop something on a dungeon wall, but you can on the regular dirt
(or whatever) floor. You don't need to be near a tile floor or chest to
drop items. You can even drop them on top of each other. To drop an
item that's in your pack, just click on it then move it to an area on the
floor next to where you're standing in the main game screen then click
again. To pick it back up, click the GET icon then click on the object.
If you want to replace an item of armor that you're already wearing or a
weapon you have in your hand with another one from your pack, you don't
need to remove the old one first. Just click on the new one from your pack
then click on the body location you want to move it to. The old item will
automatically be moved to your pack.
OTHER COMMANDS (LOOK, TALK)
To look at an object either in the main screen or in your pack, click on
it with your right mouse button. To talk to someone, just move up next to
them. If they've anything to say to you the dialog screen will appear. The
character that you're talking to will be on the top half of the screen and
you'll be in the lower half. Next to your picture will be a series of
sentences with bullets to the left of them. Click on each of these, one at
a time, and read what the character says in reply. After you've clicked on
the last bullet item you'll be automatically returned to the main
screen. Sometimes there might be a long pause when a character's dialogue
is displayed, Just wait- don't click or hit enter or anything, or the next
screenful of dialogue (if there is one) will pop up and disappear before
you get a chance to read it.
COMBAT:
To attack a monster just right-click on it. If you're not using a ranged
weapon you'll need to be standing right next to the critter. Be alert: the
monsters will move around during combat so you'll have to keep moving the
mouse cursor accordingly, otherwise you'll miss and they won't!
MONSTERS:
There are purple spiders, blue gazers that look like spiders but with
short legs, red liches, blue nagas and white skeletal knights. I recommend
avoiding them all except the spiders, which are the easiest to kill, until
you've increased in level enough to have enough hit points to last in
combat with the others. You might want to tackle the lava liches
too, because they're next easiest to kill. I also recommend getting ahold
of a boomerang as soon as possible- there are some in the second-level
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