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[SkeleTony]

I was recently able to obtain version #8 but it is lacking a lot of the features and added graphics and such that #10 has and since it doesn't look like Tom is going to put up version 10 again anytime soon I figured I would ask here.I mean SOMEONE has to have it right?

[ThreeToe]

I have the last one I think- P hasn't been making any new games for a while has he?

[SkeleTony]

ThreeToe:

You wouldn't happen to be able to upload it somewhere or email it to me would you(I know that is a ridiculous request considering the game is over 10 megs IIRC but I am desperate!Feel free to tell me to go floss my *sphincter aperature* with a coral snake if I am asking too much.)?

[Captain_Action]

what's Tower of darkness?

[ThreeToe]

Maybe if my cable-provider hadn't blown up I could upload it!  (Same thing happened to Kurtulmak, spooky!)  Anyways, I'm typeing this from college and can't help but T-man might have that game.  

ToD is Tom Proudfoot's SSI/rogue-like random-dungeon game.

[ July 25, 2002: Message edited by: ThreeToe ]

[Toady One]

I have it, but my connection is too slow now to upload it.  I got it back when I had DSL.  Three Toe's cable should be fixed in two weeks or so...

[Alanor]

http://www.tomproudfoot.com/todtest.html

that should cover it Skele :-)

[Toady One]

Isn't the zip link dead?

[SkeleTony]

Yeah, that link is deader than dance lessons held in the quadruplegic wing of a hospital for the hearing impaired(WHERE does he GET IT?!LOL!)!

I should have been more specific about the situation with Tom and ToD and all so I won't fault you for thinking me so dense as to not check the Tower of Darkness page at Tom's site before inquiring here, Alanor   .
Tom's previous web-host did not offer enough space to allow for ToD to contunue being downloaded from there adn so he got a new host, but when he tried to upload ToD#10 again it was discovered by me that he had put up a corrupteed version which seemed to be a messy mix of a few different games.Apparently a Master of Magic clone's coding was jumbleed in with the ToD game and the result was an interesting but unplayable thing which I spent some time with(editing cities and units and such) before unsuccessfully trying to email the corrupted file back to Tom, which he apparently needed in order to put up a working version of ToD again.
I hope that wasn't as confusing as I think it was.

[Alanor]

sorry!
sorry!
i was tired...
it didnt occur to me that the link was dead
or even where it was
i just stuck proudfoot tower of darkness 10
into google and did a search..
sorry :-(

[X]

Got the V.10 game (but not the original zip/exe) which is a bit big at 50 meg but will probably compress back down quite well if all else fails (and Tom didn't have some kinda flash install).

Speaking 'a which, has anyone got any recent Tom news? Or has he died the death completely?

X

[Toady One]

The death seems complete.  At least he hasn't spoken at all for months.  I suppose his marriage would suffer if he tried to completely mooch off of his wife's lawyer salary to do his own thing.  So he has to work, writing crappy games for other people.  Or something like that.  I guess it wouldn't be bright to finish POWS and farm it out to some production company, since the graphics aren't snazzy enough to make it a big seller, and the designer doesn't get paid much anyway.   When he sells games shareware, people don't buy them.  Life sucks that way.  Of course, it's all of you guys' fault for buying all the junk that gets put out, including the stuff Tom writes for Matrix.  I've made about negative $800 on you people myself, not counting the hours spent

[SkeleTony]

Ladies and gentelmen of the jury, Mr. Tarn McLoonybritches here would have you believe that he is a simple hard-working and honest game developer with the single altruistic goal of producing a nice little piece of escapist entertainment...FREE of CHARGE mind you, for those of us who tirelessly trudge through lives of quiet desperation.
However, I intend to show that this is not the case!Mr. McCollege-educated is actually a complete and stark-raving mad lunatic!

*Pauses dramatically then non-challantly reaches for a small box which is brilliantly illustrated by Boris Valejo and emblazoned with a firey logo which reads "Strength and Sorcery XIII".
He holds the box up so the jury can see*

This is a well known and popular roleplaying game that almost anyone would be more than happy to pay $60.00 for.A good old fashioned roleplaying game with elves adn dwarves and 8 or 9 character classes adn HIT POINTS!Yes...hit points!Easy to understand, easy to play and easy to beat!Just the way we like it!
But that ain't good enough for Mr. McG.G. Allin-meets Stephen Hawking-at a hackers convention!!No, he's got to have muscles and tissues and fluids and respiratory systems and skins and and a bunch of other biomological double-talk!Hell the game he is producing is called SLAVES to Armok!!What do you think that means?I mean if he is boldly proclaiming his intent to subjugate innocent children from his ivory tower window then what sort of backwards-masked messages exist that he isn't telling us about?!?

*Prosecutor SkeleTony puts down the colorful game box he had been brandishing and reaches for a tape recorder*

The following is a recording of what came through my pc speakers when I played a game of Slaves to Armok.I created a "naked mole dog" and made my character run BACKWARDS all the way to the land of the Kobolds and as I approached some kobolds(still walking backwards) and prepared for combat the following came through my speakers:

*Pushes play button*

Cassete player:"AR**&!ORUX#$%@_KurtulmacWillEatYourSouls+HVSD<KG_||:^%&^*&"

If you listen closely to certain parts of the recording you can clearly make out the message "Kill yourself for Armok"!

So you see...waitaminute, what the hell- ?!?

ToD is only 13 megs zipped!How in the hell is it 50 megs unzipped?!?

[X]

Yeah, when I suggested 'no hit-points' I didn't think anyone would be crazy enough to go this far.  

Never seen the wonders of file compression before Skele? Just tested and can .ace the whole folder back down to 10.1 meg. Shout if ya need it.

X

[SkeleTony]

OH I NEED IT!!!I NEED IT BAD!!!PLEASE...GIVE IT TO ME?!?!?

Okay, enough with the shouting.I don't know if you want to email the thing to me or upload it somewhere but my email is skeptic69@earthlink.net if you want to go that route.

"May X always be with us to afford us pleasure!"-Isaac Asimov