andy_vvc Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 I'm intrigued to know more about 'Dungeon Slayer' on the LYNX. Clearly a port/clone of the Atari ST version of 'Dungeon Master' by FTL... Is/was it ever available? Has anyone played it? Is it a full game or just a demo..? Any info appreciated. Never knew this game existed on the Lynx! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 The status of Dungeon Slayer is largely unknown. Current estimates with respect to game completion are in the range of 30-40%, and I have heard of no one who has a fully playable beta. It may be out there, but it may remain lost forever: the market for Lynx protos is very small, and there are few serious collectors out there looking for missing games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_vvc Posted August 26, 2004 Author Share Posted August 26, 2004 Thanks for the info mate. If anyone has any ideas when the game was first coded, and if anyone actually *has* a version of it, i would love to know how it plays. Still can't believe i never knew of this.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Owl Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Approximately how big would you estimate the active (i.e. prepared to buy new games) Lynx community to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Pretty darn small. I think it took Carl about two years to sell out his first run of Lexis, didn't it? I appreciate the fact that not everyone is a puzzle (or rather, word game) fanatic, but it's still a great game, and you'd think that a lot of active Lynx owners would have wanted something new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_vvc Posted August 27, 2004 Author Share Posted August 27, 2004 Made me chuckle... http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/viewto...p?p=40062#40062 I posted my 'DM on LYNX' finding on a Dungeon Master forum (dedicated to the classic ST/Amiga game across it's many formats). No one there has ever heard of this port to the LYNX. Some of the comments suggest out-right denial that a LYNX port could ever work... Can anyone on here clarify if this *was* a working game (albeit 40% complete?) Or are we looking at static screens that aren't actually coded into a maleable or playable piece of software...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthias Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Hello! Made me chuckle... http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/viewto...p?p=40062#40062 I posted my 'DM on LYNX' finding on a Dungeon Master forum (dedicated to the classic ST/Amiga game across it's many formats). No one there has ever heard of this port to the LYNX. Some of the comments suggest out-right denial that a LYNX port could ever work... Probably some of them just don't know what a Atari Lynx is? And of course they don't know that using the Handy-Emulator you can take such crystal-clear screenshots? Anyhow, i don't know much about Dungeon Slayers, but one of my first projects on the Lynx was "The Dungeon" which shows a DungeonMaster-like 3D-Window, using adapted graphics of the Amiga-version of DungeonMaster. It doesn't really have any gameplay, but you can walk around, open and close doors and use stairways, even a 2-player mode is implemented. The 3D-world looks better than the one in Dungeon Slayers, but this is due to the amount of palette entries i allowed the block-graphics too have. The drawback of this is, that i run out of RAM-space to add more gameplay. You can download "The Dungeon" from my Lynx-Page (see my profile for the URL). Regards Matthias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Owl Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Its just that in my area i'm seeing a LOT more Lynx stuff in the shops (GameStation amainly but a couple of independent ones too) than Jaguar. Maybe its just people who're less active on the internet? Do we think the Lynx community is smaller than the Jag one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_vvc Posted August 27, 2004 Author Share Posted August 27, 2004 Whoa! There's a community of Lynx's and Jaguar's????! [Runs to get his gun...] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedenLynxer Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Looking at screen shots of Dungeon Slayer to the Lynx, I always doubted this was something made by Atari. The pictures looks very homebrewish. Just look at the title screen. Primitive graphics indeed. Not really Susan G McBride art... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johannesmutlu Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 I own this rom too and its absolutely incredible to see a fully 3D game textured game at 1fps on a lynx,and you got those animated objects such as jail bars wich opens & close along with a 2 player mode!!?? This is fenominal. Yep the lynx is with its powerful duelcore 16bit and 8bit cpu along with the capability to run both chips in paralell together to do even more stuff is just absolutely incredible. The lynx cannot be underestimated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4ever2600 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I have a feeling you may have the public domain homebrew that looks and plays like Dungeon Master. Similar but not what the OP was talking about. Unless on the other hand you have an extremely rare prototype. Take pics, you playing Rom file or cart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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