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	Visit the Darklands FAQ put together by: CMB: C. Michel Boucher FF: Fred Farzanegan DA: Dennis Ahr AvL: Alexander von Lünen MEB: Marilyn E. Burford GRL: Garrett R. Le-Page

The Darklands FAQ is:

Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998
(except for quoted material, as indicated)

Specifically for version 483.07 of Darklands

Purpose Statement:

The purpose of establishing the "Darklands Domain"(DARKLANDS.NET) is to provide a single, reliable, "easy to use and remember" URL where players of the game DARKLANDS, by Microprose(DL), may come to find useful information collected from a variety of sources. The DARKLANDS FAQ (DLFAQ) sites are the central feature. They are by far the most extensive collection of this kind of information available on the Internet. Another *very* important featured item is our Darklands Discussion Email List. These, together with the downloadable files and links on this site are your best bet for getting the most out of your adventures throughout the Holy Roman Empire of Darklands! Enjoy.

Features:

• THE DARKLANDS FAQ
• The DARKLANDS FAQ Home Site.
  This site is home of version 2.0 of the DLFAQ, which was released in February, 1998.
  • A new USA Mirror Site has been added to DARKLANDS.NET.
  
  
  • SPECIAL NOTICE:
    The Darklands FAQ 2.0 Home Site on Conk World is no longer available at that location. If you have saved links to "http://www.conk.com/world/darklands/", please update them now! The other sites listed on this page are your currently recommended alternatives. Best efforts are made to keep them up to date. We will keep you informed through these sites about updates, including the availablity of additional and alternate resources and mirror sites.
    Thanks!   -MLW   :)
    
  • Next Version Release:   DLFAQ co-author Michel Boucher expects an updated version of the FAQ to be released sometime in Spring, 1999. Check back here from time to time for the latest announcements.
    
    • Michel goes by the alias "ALSANDOR".
    • Visit him at his "Barebones" Homepage.
    
    

• The Darklands FAQ German Home-site.
  
• DLFAQ co-author Alexander von Lünen hosts this site from his homepage in Deutschland, which serves as our European mirror site. Alex moved from Bonn to Darmstadt in the Autumn of 1998. Therefore, his contact information has changed ...
  
  • His new web-page is at: "http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~luenen/",
  • ... and his new e-mail address is: "luenen@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de".
    

• PLEASE NOTE: As a result of Alex's transfer from the university in Bonn to the one in Darmstadt, the Darklands FAQ Site at the URL:"http://ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs3f8/darkland.htm", the oldest, most venerable, and best known home of the DLFAQ, up thru version 1.21(plus), is now –finally– offline after a 4 year run. :(   But don't fret!!!  :)   Alex has hung his shingle and is open for business at the links provided on this page. So update your links!
  

• If you visit Alex's Homepage you will find a VERY nifty animated .GIF which he made from a captured Darklands opening cut-scene sequence! It is just plain cool! But it also serves as a link which takes you to Alex's Darklands "Waypoints" were he keeps a handy list of Darklands FAQ mirror sites.
  
• Dennis' North American Darklands FAQ Mirror site.
  DLFAQ co-author Dennis Ahr hosts the Official mirror site. It currently retains the only "Live!" copy of version 1.21 of the FAQ – and in its original form, too. So, if that is the version you are looking for, this is the place to get it! (Alex spiced his version up with a graphic salvaged from his earlier homepage   :)
  
  • If you like HOT!!!, visit Dennis' Homepage.     8^O
  
  

 

• The DARKLANDS SIG Mailing LIST.  
  
  Gather the sage wisdom of the old masters. Share your own adventures with others!

  Michel has setup a mailing list for DARKLANDS which resides on "eGroups". Be sure to sign up!
  There, the description reads,
  

  • "This list is for discussion of the game Darklands by Microprose, technical aspects, gaming news, etc."
    

  It is free to join and open to all who wish to participate.

  • To join, you will have to register your e-mail address with eGroups, which makes sense
    -- their Terms of Agreement promise your info will not be sold to spammers.
    You will be e-mailed a confirmation message to which you reply to complete the process.
    Just follow the supplied instructions.
    
  It's easy!!!
  

  In Michel's opening greeting, he writes:

  Welcome to the opening of the DARKLANDS list. Hopefully, this list will fill our needs and will be free of spam :-) Who could ask for anything more. The users will set the pace here, and the rules, so right now (other than politeness), we have no restrictions. I would request however that you not use HTML or attachments in your posts to the list. Let the games begin! Michel

  
  

  See you there! :)
  

  For more info, send e-mail to Michel Boucher.

Also Featured:




• DOWNLOADS for DARKLANDS
• The Darklands FAQ "FILES DOWNLOAD" Source Page.
  This site features specifically files which are mentioned in the DLFAQ 2.0, such as demos, patches and upgrades, utilities, cheats, and more...
  We are pleased to now include music of Darklands!

• The Darklands Saved Games Repository and Exchange Archive page.
  
• Web-based Online Tools You Can Use NOW!

• Savcho Savchev's Darklands Web-Tools:
  These online apps use Macromedia Shockwave Flash!
  
  1. The Darklands Map Tool. (428k)
     
  2. The Darklands Saints Tool. (626k)  
     
  3. The Darklands Alchemy Tool. (404k)
     
  • See the Downloads page for DkMap.Zip, DkSaints.Zip, and DkAlch.Zip.
    Or, get them all in DkTools.Zip!

• Alan Pitts' Winning with Alchemy Strategies!

• The Darklands Codex of Alchemical Symbols.

 

• DOCUMENTATION from MICROPROSE
• Darklands Manual: Summary Overview and Specially Selected Sections

• PLEASE NOTE: The material from the Darklands User Manual presented here includes:
  
  • Title Page, Table of Contents, Introduction, and Designers Notes
  • Credits, Bibliography, and License Agreement/Copyright Notice
  This represents only the supplimentary content, and does not include any instructional material which would aid in software operation or gameplay. Nonetheless, it may be removed without notice.   Sorry!   All rights are reserved by Microprose and Hasbro Interactive. For advanced and esoteric topics not covered by the original factory materials and documentation, please refer to the Darklands FAQ.
  

  Thanks!









Special Feature:

• STORIES: Tales Inspired by Darklands!  
  • "Sacrifices" ("Diebin Am Nacht"), by Timothy Parker (aka "Timeras" on the Darklands List) has submitted a short-story for your enjoyment! It's loosely based on characters from the Darklands world.
    
    • Note: For systems that can use TrueType fonts,  the author recommends using "Black Chancery" for best viewing.  Simply copy to the Windows® "\Fonts" directory to install.

  • "Ebhard's Guide to Adventure", a short-story introduction to Darklands
    presented in the Clue Book (aka "Hint Book") from MicroProse.
    © 1992. All rights reserved.
    

• INTERVIEWS:   
  • A Real-time Conference (RTC) "Interview with Arnold Hendrick", on the now-defunked GEnie online service, shortly after the release of Darklands...
    
    • Arnold Hendrick was working for I-Magic, the last I heard.
    • He wrote an article, "Hiring Game Designers", for the February 1998 edition of Game Developer magazine.









See also:




• The DARKLANDS Links Page      ...to Fan's Web-sites, Reviews, and Player Tips!      There are many of you out there who have content dedicated to DL. This list attempts to highlight those efforts.   :)    You will also find Game Reviews of DL, as well as sites listing Tips & Cheats here. If you have, or know of, a site featuring Darklands which you think should be included on these pages, please send mail to the webmaster.
  Please, check back here often for updates!
  
•      Alan Pitts' money-making strategies using Alchemy!     
• Matt's " Schmerker Inn on the Web! "
  ... a.k.a. "Darklands on FastFish at the North Pole", this site was founded to suppliment the content of the DLFAQ. At the "Schmerker Inn", you can find: updates on where to find your own copy of DL; links to other sites which feature DL; mirrors of some other's sites (incase links are found to be temporarily broken); an other information about the game. Planned future additions to the site include: a trouble shooting page to focus on the reporting of DL bugs, and posting of known work-arounds or fixes; info to help you config your system to play DL; historical info relating to DL; programming projects related to DL; ...and more!
  Matt's homepage is called FastFish at the North Pole.
  












Where to Find Your Own Copy of DARKLANDS!:




• 
  The Ultimate Darklands     
  Go to the UltimateDarklands.Com at http://www.ultimatedarklands.com and be guarunteed of finding your own copy of Darklands on CD-ROM – authentic, under Microprose licensure! The CD-ROM version was produced in 1995, 3 years after the original release, so they are the latest version you can get – version 7 (483.07). No upgrades required! It includes an electronic (online) version of the user's manual, and an alchemical symbols code-sheet. Anything else a Darklands CD-owner could need (like the map!) can be found right here on the Darklands Domain in the Files Downloads area. You can contact the proprietor of The Ultimate Darklands, George Goltz at mailto:ultimatedarklands@hotmail.com. George accepts a variety of payment methods, foriegn and domestic, electronic as well as traditional. And, best of all, he will ship it to you wherever you live. Currently, shipping to atleast 26 countries is supported, and he is adding more all the time! Check with them on their Web-site, or via e-mail, for more details.
  (The Ultimate Darklands is not directly affiliated with the Darklands Domain or the Darklands FAQ. This information is presented strictly as a service to the game-playing community at-large.)
• eBay Online Auction Site   
  ... but if you are looking for an original box-set, want the real manual, or are looking for the Clue Book, eBay is recommended as your best bet. There is almost ALWAYS Darklands for sale (auction) there. Check out this link for current auctions of Darklands running on eBay. You *will* have to register before you can place a bid on any item.
• Yahoo! Auctions Site   
  ... another popular place for online auctions, Yahoo! Auctions is not yet quite as popular a source of Darklands as is eBay, but is getting better. Items offered on Yahoo! also tend to be priced higher than the same item on eBay. I currently cannot offer a reason for this. Check out this link for current Darklands auctions running on Yahoo!. You *will* have to register before you can place a bid on any item.
• The Game Trading Zone   
  ... Lastly, I'd suggest trying the Game Trading Zone at http://gametz.com (formerly the Used Game Trading Zone at www.ugtz.com). This is a peer-to-peer site for selling and trading games. Buyers list what they are looking for, and sellers list what they have to offer. This is an "on your honor system," so buyer beware!

(If anyone knows of other good sources, please let me know. You can contact me at mailto:mwirkk@darklands.net. Thank you!)

• NOTE:
  ... If you bother to contact Microsprose or Hasbro at this time about getting Darklands you are likely to discover they have none in stock. But I do encourage contacting them anyway, whether through electronic or more traditional means, if for nothing else than to let them know there is A DEMAND OUT THERE FOR THIS GAME! We need to remind them that if a new version of Darklands, whether direct decendant or spin-off, were on the shelves today, you and I and others like us would be buying it! Otherwise, if you just want to get your hands on a copy as quickly as possible, the choices above are the best that I can currently suggest...
   
  Good luck, and happy adventuring!












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DARKLANDS Domain at WWW.DARKLANDS.NET,
 
and check back with us now-and-then
for updates and announcements on Darklands!    :)













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