Arena Of The Mad King (AotMK) Mac OS

Submission for Ludum Dare 41

• Arena Of The Mad King (aotmk) Mac Os Catalina

First post-LD Update is here, containing the much-asked for fullscreen mode and multiresolution support, and also fixing a bug with food spawning that should make it much easier to find food now!

You can play for kills or points, points make you GROW, you loose it all when dying. Best player is King. Best performing King gets a chance to enter the leaderboards. MAD KING is an advanced io game using class-based characters, laser-cut into 40 blocks, representing your health and armor. Blocks are lost when damaged and can be collected. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Los Santos: a sprawling sun-soaked metropolis full of self-help gurus, starlets, and fading celebrities, once the envy of the Western world, now struggling to stay afloat in an era of economic uncertainty and cheap reality TV.Amidst the turmoil, three. Drawing on over forty years of history, Dungeons & Dragons lets you create mighty heroes to battle monsters, solve puzzles, and reap rewards. As you play, your story can grow to rival the greatest of legends.

Hear ye, hear ye!

The Illustrious King Cathusalah of Aristinia, Heir to the Throne of Illisneth, Ruler of the Western Peoples, Prince of the Parchirrans, Father of Many Nations, Sailor of the Great Oceans, Conqueror of the White Mountains, Devourer of the Legendary Lord Briscutt's Two Pound Steak Challenge, Rider of Fierce Stallions, Writer of Beautiful Poems, and Possessor of Amazing Hair, wishes to remindeth his subjects–meaning, needless to say, thou–that he is of very sound mind and not, as some whispereth, mad.

On an unrelated note, the King hath also declared a great tournament to be held in three weeks' time! 100 of the King's subjects shalt be forcedchosenhonored with the opportunity to participate in this tournament, with the prize being unimaginable wealth and power fit for a king! (A lesser king, of course; even the bravest man alive wouldst never dare insult The Illustrious King Cathusalah of Aristinia, Heir to the Throne of Illisneth, Ruler of the Western Peoples, Prince of the Parchirrans, Father of Many Nations, Sailor of the Great Oceans, Conqueror of the White Mountains, Devourer of the Legendary Lord Briscutt's Two Pound Steak Challenge, Rider of Fierce Stallions, Writer of Beautiful Poems, and Possessor of Amazing Hair by being wealthier than he!)

This tournament will be particularly special, as it will take the form of a combination of game genres once thought to be incompatible! Namely, a text-based adventure and a battle royale! For those forcedchosen honored to participate, the following instructions are given:

• To moveth around, thou shalt type 'move ', followed by a cardinal direction. For example, 'move north'
• To findeth useful items and food, thou shalt exploreth the area by typing 'explore'. If one should findeth, say, a crossbow, one shalt pick it up by typing 'take crossbow'.
• Thou shalt remembereth to equipeth any weapons thou find! However, thou shalt note that armor is equipped automatically upon picking up.
• Thou art encouraged to attacketh thy fellow contestants in the King's Arena! To attacketh a Male Dwarf, for example, thou shalt type 'attack male dwarf'
• Thou shalt remember to eat and drink to prevent dying of starvation or thirst!
• When typing commands that take a target, thou shalt always remember to typeth the target, as failing to do so might cause the instant destruction of the King's Arena, killing all inside. The King's Army of Royal Software Engineers promiseth to fixeth the issue by the next iteration of the tournament.

Thus sayeth The Illustrious King Cathusalah of Aristinia, Heir to the Throne of Illisneth, Ruler of the Western Peoples, Prince of the Parchirrans, Father of Many Nations, Sailor of the Great Oceans, Conqueror of the White Mountains, Devourer of the Legendary Lord Briscutt's Two Pound Steak Challenge, Rider of Fierce Stallions, Writer of Beautiful Poems, and Possessor of Amazing Hair.

Hello, everyone!

This is my submission for Ludum Dare 41: my first LD, but definitely not my last! The theme was 'combine two unlikely genres', so I combined 'text-based adventure' with 'battle royale'. It's not 100% complete, but it's very much playable if you forgive the incomplete AI and occasional bug. I'm very happy with how the project has turned out so far, so I plan to keep developing it to make it into a more finished game and give it a wider release. Please let me know what you think of it, good or bad! Please report bugs either by commenting or by emailing zaneddennis@gmail.com.

When I say the AI is incomplete, I mean the NPCs can't pick up items or attack you back, so they're not much of a threat at the moment; more complete AI is the #1 thing on my priority list for continuing development.

It only has support for 1600x900 resolution at the moment, but fixing that is also a high priority. If your screen is too small, everything should work fine; the only thing you can't see is half of the 3 buttons at the bottom right. 2 of them are empty placeholders, and the last one on the right quits to desktop.

If anyone has trouble reading my faux-Old English above, let me know and I'll water it down. I might've gone a bit overboard.

A game by Zane Dennis.

Music by Spencer Sosnowski Watts 1 3 3.

Install instructions

To run, download and unzip the .zip, then run the .exe! All you have to do is make sure the .pck file is in the same place as the .exe file.

Download

Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.

>
1. How to play

New to abandonware? Start with this guide to play DOS games on Windows 7, 8 or 10, or on your Mac. Most games work fine without any tinkering, but some are hard to run properly.

Backpacking mac os. A large majority of our games catalog are DOS games, if you need to play Windows or Mac games, go to the bottom of the page or use the following table of contents. We have several other platforms now, specific pages are available for running these games. Also, don't miss our list of useful links for abandonware and this quick buying guide.

• Other platforms:

Why is this not working?

Most abandonware games on PC were created for the MS-DOS operating system. Today's computers no longer offer the same environment for the programs. Hopefully, some people were unhappy with this and created software to mimic the old computers operating system!

What program should I use?

Depending on your operating system, you have different possibilities.

For every operating system

DOSBox is the master DOS emulator, it works with almost every computer, and will be enough for a quick play of most games. Check the DOSBox website for more information. DOSBox works in Windows 10.

DOSBox Enhanced Community Edition, aka DOSBox ECE, is a good replacement of vanilla DOSBox. Many new features are added by the author YesterPlay, check the project website for a list of enhancements. Available for Windows and Linux.

You may use another program for many point and click games, ScummVM. You should check their compatibility page and search for the game you wish to play.

DOSBox has many frontend programs (complete list here) that give you a more appealing interface. DGBL is one of them, and it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. For quick way to play DOS games, you may also use IA Launcher, which launch games directly from the Internet Archive. Available for Windows (easy installer), Mac and Linux.

Windows (XP, Vista, Seven, 8, 10)

Most people are using Microsoft's Windows and an easy solution is available: D-fend Reloaded. It has a nice graphical interface, and a lot of things are done for you behind the scenes. The project has not been updated for years though, so you may prefer DGBL.

A possible alternative is LaunchBox, which supports DOS games but now tons of other platforms, including Windows and Steam games.

Mac OS X

Boxer is clearly the best DOSBox frontend on Mac, but it has not been updated since 2016. If you have updated to Catalina or above, the app won't work anymore. It has been partially ported to 64 bits, you can get it here or check the newest updates on this GitHub thread.

Linux

On Linux, you should use one of the cross-platform frontends like DGBL. Check the complete list on the DOSBox wiki

I need help this is not working!

Please note we do not provide support for running abandonware games. We strongly suggest you to ask for help on dedicated forums, like Abandonia or Vogons. You may also use the DosBox subreddit.

DOSBox setup

You should carefully read the DOSBox Wiki for a good walkthrough. Mac OS X users should pay attention to those instructions, although I recommend using Boxer.

DOSBox drag and drop (Windows)

Many of the standard DOS games can be played immediately with a drag and drop, after a standard DOSBox setup:

• download the game archive and unzip it ;
• drag and drop the game folder on the desktop icon of DOSBox ;
• the game folder will be mounted as C: - just type the name the right .exe file and press enter ;
• tips: use DIR command in DOSBox to list game files (if the list is big, use 'DIR /p'), and use the TAB key to autocomplete the .exe file name.

If you don't have the DOSBox shortcut on your desktop, the drag and drop works on the DOSBox executable file located in C:Program FilesDOSBox-0.xx

D-Fend Reloaded Setup

As a start, download the latest setup of D-Fend.

Once installed, follow the following steps (click on the pictures for full size). Screenshots taken in Windows 10 October 2016.

Step 1

Starting with a fresh D-Fend install, you should see this screen after launching the program. You can already launch DOSDox DOS to bring an operational MS-DOS system. Guess you want to play a GAME, so not much to do here.

Step 2

First, unzip the downloaded game somewhere. Then click on Extras > Open game folder. This is where you will put the game files.

Step 3

The game folder is the virtual drive used by the default D-Fend setup. For this tutorial, I unzipped the Mario Teaches Typing on the desktop, then moved the game folder to the Game Folder of D-Fend. The name of the folder itself is not important, but you should avoid spaces or special characters.

Step 4

Now that the game files are on the virtual drive, we must add the game to D-Fend. Click on Add > Add manually. > Add DOSBox Profile. A new window will appear, as shown in the video, the 'Profile editor'. We must set the program file by clicking on the folder icon at the right end of 'Program file'.

The explorer will show you the contents of the virtual drive. Navigate through the game folder until you see program files. Some game only has one file listed here, Mario Teaches Typing has two, usually, the right file to select is named after the game. This time, it's 'MARIO', select the file and click Open. You may also select a setup program the same way, as shown in the video. Useful for sound configuration most of the time. Topaz gigapixel ai.

Coming back to the Profile editor, we can see the executable file in the Program file field. The last thing to do is to set the name of the game in the Profile name field. Once this is done, click on Ok. The game appears in the list, double-click to run it and have fun!

D-Fend Reloaded Wizard

You may also use the game wizard in D-Fend Reloaded, it's simpler to add a game.

Step 1

After downloading and unzipping the game files somewhere, launch D-Fend, click Add > Add with wizard. A new window appears, 'Create new profile', Emulation type should be set to DOSBox. Click on Next.

Step 2

Click on the folder on the right side of the 'Program to be started'. Navigate to your folders to the game directory and find the proper executable file (see the second paragraph in Step 4 of the previous tutorial). Click on Open.

Step 3

D-Fend will auto-detect the game sometimes, you may also select one in the list as shown in the screenshot. By clicking Next, you get some additional information on the game, anyway, you can click Ok, the game will be listed in the main windows and ready to be played!

Additional steps and troubleshooting

Amongst different problems we have run into, here are some additional tips.

How to make DOSBox fullscreen

By default, DOSBox runs in windowed mode. Nomonstersyet! windows mac os. To make DOSBox fullscreen, just press ALT and Enter. Press ALT and Enter again to get back to windowed mode. If you want DOSBox to always run fullscreen when launched, edit dosbox.conf (click on 'DOSBox 0.74 Options' in Start menu), change 'fullscreen=false' to 'fullscreen=true', save and close the text editor.

Games Running Too Fast or Too Slow

Many old games were made to run as fast as the computer could get, those may be too fast with DOSBox default CPU cycles. You have to reduce the CPU cycles with CTRL-F11 in DOSBox. Other frontend programs may use different shortcuts.

On the opposite, the default CPU cycles may be too low for 'recent' DOS games, you will have to raise the CPU cycles with CTRL-F12 in Dosbox. Other frontend programs may use different shortcuts. You can also skip frames in DOSBox to get better performances, use CTRL-F8 to increase the number of frames skipped. You can read more about performances in DOSBox on the official wiki.

Game setup

You may remember running SETUP.EXE to configure sound, have better graphics or enable mouse support. You should add the setup program to the Setup section, below the Program section in D-Fend, and launch it before playing the game.

DOSBox can emulate several sound cards, check out the wiki about sound setup. Most of the time, Sound Blaster or AdLib is the right choice.

Virtual Drive

Some games require you to emulate a floppy drive and have the game content mounted in it. To add this floppy drive, edit the game profile, click on Drives and add a new drive. You may use a folder or a real floppy image (.img) for the floppy content. Same goes for CD games.

PC-Booter Games

We have some PC-Booter games, theses games have to be booted to work. DOSBox can handle this fine, but these steps are not so clear.

Chuck Cartia gave us a nice walkthrough, using SpitFire Ace as an example:

1 - Create a folder to put your .img files in, for this example, on the C: drive make a folder named DriveImg. Yuuki-elemental demo mac os.

2 - Now put the file spitfire.img in this folder. Add a line to the dosbox.conf file in the [autoexec] section:
boot c:DriveImgspitfire.img -l a
That's dash ell (for letter) and the drive letter you want to assign.

3 - Make sure you have any other references to this drive letter remmed out with the # like this:
#mount a a: -t floppy
or
#mount a s:install.

4 - That's it. Save the dosbx.conf file and when you start DOSBOX, the game should boot and start automatically just like the good old days when you shoved the disk in and turned on the (Atari) computer.

After reading this, the explanation in the DOSBOX readme.txt file should make sense and you can figure out how to add more drives for multiple disk games.

Note: You don't need to use the IMGMOUNT command when you use the BOOT command. Don't forget to rem out the boot line and unrem your other line(s) when you want to use DOSBOX normally.

Memory Problems

Some games have memory problems at startup, like error message telling you 'Not enough memory'. You should try several combinations of options in the 'Memory' part of the profile, enabling loadfix first.

For additional help, you should ask your questions over the Vogons forums or the DosBox subreddit.

Font doesn't look right

Many old games relied heavily on standard fonts present in the operating system, you can get them at the The Oldschool PC Font Resource, made by VileR. Font pack mirror available here.

ISO and CUE/BIN files (CD images)

Some of the games are available as a CD image, a perfect copy of the original CD. For DOS games, DOSBox will read the images if the format is ISO or BIN/CUE. Several formats are possible, though: ISO, CUE/BIN, NRG, MDS/MDF. Usually, these images come with Windows games, scroll down for help on opening these.

DOS Games

For DOS games, it's quite straightforward: DOSBox allows you to mount these images directly, with the IMGMOUNT command. The IMGMOUNT command will perfectly mount ISO images, but can also mount CUE/BIN images. CUE/BIN images allow you to mount a game CD which has music tracks on it - many games of the late 90s used this system, and you could play the game music on a CD player.

If you use a DOSBox frontend, you will probably find a way to mount an image through the menus. One alternative is to mount these images with a mounting software (see below for Windows) and using the mounted image as a source in DOSBox using the MOUNT command.

Windows Games

For Windows games, you need an additional software to read the images. Many software is available, not all of them are free:

• Virtual CloneDrive: light freeware, no ads or adware installed, highly recommended.
• WinCDEmu: open source, totally free, also recommended.
• MagicISO MagicDisc: good freeware, supports Win98/ME for old machines.
• ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver: very light freeware, can create any disk type, has command line support. Core virtual disk driver available here.
• DAEMON Tools Lite: a free version is available, watch out for adware during installation, you can also pay a $4 licence for a clean installer.

Once installed, most of these software will allow you to mount an ISO or CUE/BIN image by simply double-clicking on it. Beware, some images contains additional data only readable by DAEMON Tools, making the disk image unmountable, or making the game unplayable without a crack / noCD. Having DAEMON Tools installed for these cases can be useful.

Mounting images on a Mac

Arena Of The Mad King (aotmk) Mac Os Catalina

On a Mac computer, ISO files can be mounted without installing anything, but CUE/BIN files require DAEMON Tools Lite Mac to be mounted easily (click on the Download link next to the buy button). You can also try to rename the BIN file as an ISO file: rename 'gamefile.bin' to 'gamefile.iso' and open the file - it may work!