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Some guy Registered user I'm baaaack. Last page view: 5610 days, 1 hour, 14 minutes and 37 seconds ago. |
Once upon a time, many years ago, I learned in these forums that it's possible to change Adom's dimensions from 80x25 (or whatever the standard numbers are) to something like 100x50. This didn't crash Adom or anything unpleasant; in fact, everything worked perfectly, but this introduced some interesting changes to the standard game. Every dungeon level is much bigger, so there's more to explore, but more turns on each level means more game time passes and more background corruptions occur. Certain special dungeon features grow: the CoC graveyard and the casino are MASSIVE. The trouble is: I've forgotten how to change this. I believe that in Windows 98 I could right click on Adom.exe, click 'properties', and find that setting somewhere in there. I can't find this in XP. Can anyone help me out? The following is a real Adom message: The homunculus hits you. You suddenly fall asleep! Do you want to continue to read the spellbook of Calm Monster? [y/N] |
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Morio Registered user Holy Champion of ADoM Last page view: 3905 days, 58 minutes and 50 seconds ago. |
you can open up the command prompt (start->run->cmd) and change the dimensions of that window by typing mode x,y where x is the width and y the height, and then run ADOM. That's one way to do it "I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but I know World War 4 with be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein |
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nOOb-mAsTeR Registered user Master of all things nOOby!!! Last page view: 5770 days, 16 hours, 38 minutes and 8 seconds ago. |
Wait, so you guys change the resolution? I run it in fullscreen, and it still has the same amount of squares on screen, so everything's just appears larger, but is still the same amount of squares. I click properties, screen, and fullscreen on XP. There's a different way too, but can't remember... "You try to give Fang, the large dog the bone. Fang, the large dog says,"Do you know who I am, mortal?!?!" My smartest dog ever:D |
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Morio Registered user Holy Champion of ADoM Last page view: 3905 days, 58 minutes and 50 seconds ago. |
probably Alt + Enter people don't usually play the game with 80x50 resolution, because it makes it a *lot* harder, and it wasn't meant to be played that way. "I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but I know World War 4 with be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein |
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Some guy Registered user I'm baaaack. Last page view: 5610 days, 1 hour, 14 minutes and 37 seconds ago. |
It's not actually a *lot* harder, and I thought it could be interesting to play that way again. Thanks Morio, that worked. The following is a real Adom message: The homunculus hits you. You suddenly fall asleep! Do you want to continue to read the spellbook of Calm Monster? [y/N] [Edited 1 time, last edit on 3/7/2007 at 11:52 (GMT -5) by Some guy] |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4246 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes and 50 seconds ago. |
Food is more of an issue early on, and corruption more of an issue later in the game. Certain areas like Animated Forest and Minotaur Maze become more... tiresome. Casino Shoppe is supposed to be amazing on high res though. Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Some guy Registered user I'm baaaack. Last page view: 5610 days, 1 hour, 14 minutes and 37 seconds ago. |
The minotaur maze is already tiresome. I don't even enter it without scrolls of magic mapping. The following is a real Adom message: The homunculus hits you. You suddenly fall asleep! Do you want to continue to read the spellbook of Calm Monster? [y/N] |
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**Lil'Chaos Unregistered user |
For windows adom i *think* you open up adom, then on the taskbar, right click the mouse and he options in there somewhere. |
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Some guy Registered user I'm baaaack. Last page view: 5610 days, 1 hour, 14 minutes and 37 seconds ago. |
Alright, you nay-sayers win. I just tried some 80x50 Adom, and exploring these large dungeons doesn't excite me as much as it used to. In fact, the screen hurts my eyes. Normal size Adom is good enough for me. The following is a real Adom message: The homunculus hits you. You suddenly fall asleep! Do you want to continue to read the spellbook of Calm Monster? [y/N] |