My AR history ...

I had been reading about AR in some Atari magazines ... Sounded like (and
looked like) an amazing game but I couldn't find it in any software store in
Holland ..... About 2 years later (the dungeon was released by then) I found
the City in a stack of disks at a 'not so legal' software sellpoint, I
immediatelly got myself a copy !! Eventually I had played my not so legal
version so much, that the character disk gave up (I was too young to know
about 'backups')... I got very, VERY upset ... Tried loading my character in
time after time but it kept failing with some error ... I was so upset I
destroyed the play disks as well ... When my dad came home he tried to
recover them with some disk doctor program, he could probably have saved
them if I hadn't scratched them so much with my pen (he found only something
like 2 bad blocks on the disks... You wouldn't believe that if you saw the
state of the floppies).. Anyway the repair failed and I was without AR for
many more years to come ....
Years later I got myself a PC and in some obscure software shop I found the
16 bit PC version of the City....
I bought this and played it for a bit, enjoyed the extra 'JOB' feature, but
was somehow disapointed by the game (I think it was because the graphics
were less impressive then the atari version but I'm not sure anymore).
When I finally got myself an internet connection, one of the first things I
searched on was 'alternate reality', found all the different versions and
emulators but none of them make it 'playable' enough to get back into it
like I was in the beginning.... They all run too fast or I run into the disk
swapping which also takes the fun out of it ....
Not too long ago, I got myself an Ipaq pocketpc and found out there are many
emulators for it ... After trying the C64, DOS and Atari ST versions, I
finally tried the 8bit atari versions, and got the dungeon working, but
horribly slow ... All other versions didn't want to run at all on my
pocketpc. A native PocketPC version would be AWESOME and I would pay good
money for it (like 50 dollars, or even more if that will help
development...)
I still think AR is one of the greatest games to ever come into existence..
Other RPG's I rate very high : Bard's Tale, Daggerfall, Morrowind. But only
Daggerfall and Morrowind have the same re-playabilty as AR... You can just
keep coming back to them and live a new life ....

Allan


-----Original Message-----
From: Warwyth--aol.com [Warwyth--aol.com]
Sent: vrijdag 22 augustus 2003 19:50
To: <Address Masked>
Subject: Longevity


Out of curiosity,
how long have each of you been playing AR? What was your original platform?
Did anyone else play the Dungeon before the City? Or one of them
exclusively?

I've been playing AR since 1986, I guess, when I bought it for my Atari
130XE. I bought them both at the same time, but got into the Dungeon far
more because my character kept dying at an untimely age in the City--and you
had to reload the entire game to start over.

I have still never really gotten into the City, but I recently finally won
the Dungeon. : )

Warwyth


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