Dungeon Master

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A couple weeks ago I had a wave of nostalgia and wanted to play Dungeon Master, one of my favorite games for the Apple IIGS. I figured there had to be an emulator or a port for Windows, so I hunted around. Low and behold I found an awesome site over at www.dungeon-master.com that linked out to not only a superb Windows port, but also a Windows Mobile port. Needless to say I immediately wet myself realizing I could play Dungeon Master on my Samsung Epix. Anyhow, it took some tweaking of the interface to make everything fit, but I think I got it to a place where its usable on the Samsung Epix’s 320 x 320 screen.

If you haven’t played Dungeon Master its a very cool/old-school RPG where you choose 4 heros to run around a dungeon killing monsters, collecting cool gear and figuring out puzzles — it’s  incredibly fun.

When tweaking the interface I had to remove the direction buttons and the status message box. To move you can use the following keys:

• Move forward – K 
• Turn left – J
• Turn right – L
• Slide left – N
• Slide right – .
• Move backwards – M

The key mapping make it pretty easy to hold onto the Epix with your left hand, moving your heros using your thumb, and keeping the stylus in your right hand tapping away at the screen.

Unfortunately there isn’t room for the status messages so you’ll have to live without them until  new version of the port is released that handles better resizing of the controls.

Note, you can download and play different dungeons. To play the new dungeons, download the .dat file and save it to /Program Files/DUNGEON.DAT  … of course, back up the existing DUNGEON.DAT before overwriting it with your new dungeon file. I recommend storing a copy of your DUNGEON.DAT files in /Program Files/Dungeon Master/Other Dungeons.

Huge thanks to Paul for creating this awesome port!