Chaos Strikes Back for Windows (and Linux, Raspbian, Mac. OS X, Pocket PC)Overview.

Description by Paul R. Stevens: This program is a very exact translation of the original Atari ST program, . This game, and its predecessor, . They fit on a single floppy disk (before 'high density' was invented) and could be played very nicely on a machine with only 5. K bytes of memory. The monsters, setting, and puzzles made it one of the best games of its type. Games like . Then I was out of luck.

I wanted to know how the game worked internally. I wanted to play the game to its conclusion. But I had no computer on which I could do these things.

Finally, after many years, I got my hands on the binary executable for the game. I wrote a disassembler to turn it into human- readable op- codes and proceeded to translate it to C++ using the Microsoft Version 6. C++ compiler. Eight hours a day for six months.

About 1. 20,0. 00 lines of pseudo- assembly language. Crazy thing to do. But it works. The game and the source code are free to do with as you please. Paul also developed a dungeon editor to enable the use of the advanced features he added to the game engine: CSBuild for PC v. The game recording feature was used for competitions aiming to finish Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back in the shortest amount of time: Chaos Strikes Back for Windows Competitions.

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Here is a screenshot of the Linux version: Credits. Chaos Strikes Back was orginally developed for the Atari ST by FTL Software: Director ~ ~ ~ ~ Doug Bellasst. Dennis Walker. 2nd unit director ~ Mike Newtongraphics ~ ~ Andy Jarosgraphics ~ ~ David Simonproducer ~ ~ Wayne Holder. Backengineering from Atari ST code and port to Windows: Paul R. Stevens (prsteven@facstaff. Port to Linux: Erik Svanberg, Rebecka Svanberg.

Port to Mac. OS X: Tomas Zahradnicky (chaos@2. Software. com)Contact and Support. A discussion forum is dedicated to this game. If you have suggestions or find any bug, please post a message in the Cowsmanaut's Dungeon Master Forums (there is a forum dedicated to this program), or write an email to Paul R. Stevens (prsteven@facstaff. Features. The game includes the following additional features that are not in the original: Runs on PCs under Windows or Linux, and on Macintosh with Mac OS X.

Multiple modules support: the game includes both the DM and CSB dungeons and graphics, all from the original Atari ST versions. However, it is possible to add custom modules (dungeons, graphics and Hint Oracle files). Under the 'Modules' folder, there is a subfolder for each module.

You have to specify which module you want to play on the command line (or use the supplied batch files). Keyboard control: party movement, spells, and combat can be done with the keyboard. Once you are used to it, it is much faster than mouse. The file config. txt contains the key mappings between Atari ST and PC. Open it in a text editor to view or customize the controls.

Four levels of zoom for screen size (x. Misc' menu so that you can adjust the window to your screen. In 1x screen size, you can monitor skill increases and some other values. You can record / replay your games (like movies). This is useful to debug the program and to show other people how fast you can play the game (see the Competitions section below)Here is how to enable recording: When standing in front of the prison doors, select . Stevens (prsteven@facstaff. To replay a session, rename the appropriate record file to .

Then, when standing in front of the prison doors, select . It is possible to splice several recordings with Splice.

CSB v. 2. 1. The game includes a 'Move Counter' which records the actual number of moves (turns, punches, spell selection, etc.). This is intended as an alternative measure of how quickly you can play the game.

Adds a different way to win the game: if you want to explore every corner of the dungeon and learn all the tricks it has to offer then try the 'Items Remaining' option in the 'Misc' menu. Command Line interface to play recorded games: try the Demo.

DM. bat file for an example. A 'Speed' menu allows you to play the game much more slowly. Ability to trace Timers, Attacks and Functions in log files (in 'Misc' menu). Ability to dump in a text file (HINTDUMP.

TXT) the contents of the Hints file used by the Hint Oracle. This feature is available when you run the Hint Oracle. This data has been used on the Chaos Strikes Back Hint Oracle (English Release 1) page. Ability to dump in a text file (ASCIIDUMP. TXT) the contents of any saved game. This feature is available when you load a saved game. The following features were not ported from the Atari ST version because they are not mandatory: The animated introduction sequence.

The portrait editor from the utility disk. Downloads. Latest versions: Dungeon Master for Windows x.

Dungeon Master for Linux x. SDL 1. 2 2. 01. 5- 1. Dungeon Master for Linux x.

SDL 2. 0 2. 01. 5- 1. Dungeon Master for Raspbian ARM- 3. Chaos Strikes Back for Windows x. Chaos Strikes Back for Linux x. SDL 1. 2 2. 01. 5- 1.

Chaos Strikes Back for Linux x. SDL 2. 0 2. 01. 5- 1. Chaos Strikes Back for Raspbian ARM- 3. You can also download Conflux 3. WIP, the latest available version of one of the best custom dungeons ever made, which is based on CSBwin.

Older versions: Clone- CSBwin- Windows- Dungeon. Master- 1. 2. Clone- CSBwin- Windows- Chaos.

Strikes. Back- 1. Clone- CSBwin- Pocket.

PC- Dungeon. Master- 1. CSBwin v. 10. 0 for Pocket PC with the original Dungeon Master dungeon. Clone- CSBwin- Pocket. PC- Chaos. Strikes. Back- 1. 00. zip.

CSBwin v. 10. 0 for Pocket PC with the original Chaos Strikes Back dungeon. If you want to use the direction pad on your Pocket PC, you need to add the following lines to the config. L ; up = move forwardmscan 1 0. L ; right = turn rightmscan 1 0. L ; left = turn leftmscan 1 0.

L; down = move backwardmscan 1 0. R; enter = show inventory/show dungeon view Clone- CSBwin- Linux. Note that it is not based on the latest version of CSBwin. Clone- CSBwin- Mac. OSX- Chaos. Strikes. Back. rar. CSBwin for Mac. OS X with the original Chaos Strikes Back dungeon.

This archive contains a port to Mac OS X made by Tomas Zahradnicky (zahradt@1stplugins. Note that it is not based on the latest version of CSBwin. Clone- CSBwin- PC- 3. Chaos Strikes Back for Windows ++ Executable Version 3. This ++ version (based on Chaos Strikes Back for Windows v. Dj. Arcas (djarcas@hotmail.

It adds a cheat menu to the game (check the CSBwin++ topic at dungeon- master. Clone- CSBwin- Source.

Code- 1. 2. Download it only if you want to look in the source code to understand how the game engine works, or if you want to compile the game yourself. How to run the game. For the Windows version, run one of the . For the Linux version, run one of the . History. This section contains the release notes of all the versions of Chaos Strikes Back for Windows. Version 1. 2. 1. 00 (December 6, 2.

Corrects a hint oracle bug. Earlier versions crashed, if too many . This is an experimental option to support various sound servers without actually write code to each one of them.

But you have to format the sound output yourself first before you send it to the soundcard. In our testing this works bad with Esound, but quite decent with a. Rts. Linux: Martin has added support to Nokia 7.

Version 9. 9. Lot of tweaks and changes, mainly with DSA. Check the Release.

Notes. txt file supplied with the source code for all details. Version 9. 8 (September 2. Improvements are listed in the file Release. Notes. txt (Windows package). Linux: Sound has been improved: now uses 1. Version 9. 7 (July 4, 2.

Improvements are listed in the file Release. Notes. txt (Windows package). Flatliners (2017) Movie Photo. Version 9. 6 (August 1.

Windows version, September 8, 2. Linux version)Fixed one error that caused record/playback to crash. Added DM rules for reincarnation (in the Misc menu). Ability to use full- screen (add . This has been fixed, and it's now possible to specify several different directories for CSB to search in. Linux: The internal callback- timer can be changed from the cmd line.

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