eXoDOS Vol. II: RPG, Version 2.0

[NickTheGreek]

Welcome to eXoDOS Version 2.0!

eXoDOS is my attempt to catalogue, obtain, and make playable every game developed for the DOS and PC Booter platform. I strive to find original media rather than using scene rips. This collection uses a combination of Dosbox and ScummVM to play these older titles on modern systems. All required emulators are included in the torrent and have been setup to run all included titles with no prior knowledge or experience required on the users part.

Version 2.0 adds a ton of new features to the collection. Several utilities, converters, and even a compressor have been added. Check the section on new features for the complete documentation of them.

MEAGRE now also features a unique GUI dubbed 'Nostalgia Mode.' Check the drop down menu to enable it.

This pack includes 326 DOS games which are in some form or another part of the RPG Genre. I have defined "RPG" as games which primarily rely on levelling up one or many characters through a combination of experience, items, or abilities. This includes both action and turn-based RPG's.

All games have been pre-setup and are immediately playable, no configuration required. A one time setup is required by the front end.

The games included were identified by scanning several adventure game archives, dos collections, and auditing well known game databases such as MobyGames.



Updates to 2.0:
Apart from new games and fixes, version 2.0 adds several new features. Within MEAGRE, one can now browse via "Nostalgia Mode", which allows one to browse the games from a graphical perspective (See Sec03 for documentation).

Prior to versions 2.0, any game supported by ScummVM was automatically launched by ScummVM. Version 2.0 allows the user to select which emulator they would like to run for games that are supported by both programs.

Another addition is the ability to install a game from the launch file. Previously when attempting to launch a game that had not been installed, the program would simply remind you the game had not been installed yet. Now it goes on to ask if you would like to install the game, negating the need to run the install file seperately.

In the Bonus directory you can find the following apps:

eXoCrunch - Compression software
DBGL 077b + Converter - Conversion software for use with Dosbox game Launcher

A list of all new games can be found in the games list.





Below you will find a list of all 326 games in this collection. However, before that I'd like to highlight the series included which defined the DOS RPG era.


Highlighted Series
(In No Particular Order)


Fallout (The Wasteland Universe)

The Fallout series is fairly well known these days with Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas bringing the games to today's modern consoles. It all started back on DOS thought with Fallout 1. Wasteland first outlined the world that Fountain of Dreams (unofficial Wasteland sequel) and Fallout populate, although due to the fact the games came from different publishers, Fallout had to be called a 'spiritual successor" rather than a sequel.

These games explore the world after a nuclear apocalypse. Fallout was notable for its many ways of solving problems depending on the characters stats. Brute force, charisma, bartering, hacking, or tactical ops are all possible approaches. Play the game with a dumb character and you will have very different conversations than playing through the game with an intelligent character.

Unfortunately Fallout 2 was released for windows only, and therefor doesn't make an appearance here.


Ultima series

Richard Garriott's Ultima universe was first published by Sierra On-line for the PC, before being self published by Garriott's own Origin Systems. The Ultima games revolve around Garriott's alter-ego, Lord British. The player takes on the role of The Stranger\Avatar (depending on the game), a human from earth called upon by British to assist protecting this fantasy world.

The games are often dungeon crawls, but initially were known for providing a graphical interface when most games of the time were still text based. While ground breaking at it's initial release, later versions did not fare as well as comparable RPG's of the time.


Elder Scrolls series

Another series that is still going strong is the Bethesda developed Elder Scrolls series. One of the stronger first entries into the first person RPG genre, Elder Scrolls Arena allowed users to travel over the entire game world rather than restricting players to key locations or map travel. This has become an expected part of the Elder Scrolls series, with the newer games boasting some of the largest open worlds ever developed.

Dagerfall introduced a larger NPC system with politcal parties and guilds, while character development revolves around building up skills through usage rather than a point system.


Legend of the Red Dragon - BBS Door Games

I included this category as I consider these to be the precursor to the modern day MMORPG, and I have a soft spot for nostalgia. Honestly, they are just as much a precursor to Farmville as well... Sysops of BBS systems (we are talking pre-net here guys) often looked for ways to keep people dialing in. What better way than to encourage all your users to kill the horrible red Dragon in LORD. Flirting in the bar, user battles, random encounters, and cool swag - all in 15 turns a day. Once your turns were up, you had to wait until midnight to adventure again, so it wasn't uncommon to have a LORD characters on multiple BBS's. But what happened when you had already played all 10 characters? Well, for me, that is when I started testing out all the other door games. Offworld mutants, fishing, pimp wars, trivia; there were all types. But the best were always the RPG games. While the versions here won't have random people from all over your area code dialing in, you can at least see what the game was like. LORD fans have kept the game alive, and you can still find games going on the web.


Full Games List:






10Rogue (1984)
2400 AD (1988)
50 Mission Crush (1984)
Abandoned Places - A Time for Heroes (1992)
Adventure Construction Set (1987)
Al-Qadim - the Genie's Curse (1994)
Albion (1995)
Aleshar - The World of Ice (1997)
Alien Fires 2199 AD (1987)
Alien Logic (1994)
AlphaMan (1995)
Alternate Reality - The City (1988)
Amberstar (1992)
Amulet of Yendor (1985)
Amulets and Armor (1997)
An Elder Scrolls Legend Battlespire (1997)
Ancient Domains of Mystery (1994)
Ancients 1 Deathwatch
Ancients 2 Approaching Evil
Angband (1992)
Antkill (1992)
Anvil of Dawn (1995)
Aspetra (1996)
Autoduel (1988)
Avalon (1998)
Bazooka of the Red Dragon (1997)
Beneath Apple Manor (1978)
Betrayal of the Obsidian Baboon (1996)
Blind Justice (1995)
Bloodstone - An Epic Dwarven Tale (1993)
Bloodwych (1989)
Bob's Dragon Hunt (1992)
Buck Rogers - Countdown to Doomsday (1990)
Buck Rogers - Matrix Cubed (1992)
Burntime (1993)
Captive (1992)
Cavequest (1985)
Caverns of Xaskazien (1995)
Caverns of Zoarre (1984)
Challenge of the Five Realms (1992)
Champions of Krynn (1990)
Cobra Mission (1992)
Computer Underground (1993)
Cosmic Soldier - Psychic War (1989)
Crystals of Arborea (1990)
Curse of the Azure Bonds (1989)
Daemonsgate (1992)
Dark Designs I - Grelminars Staff (1990)
Dark Designs II - Closing the Gate (1991)
Dark Sun - Shattered Lands (1993)
Dark Sun II - Wake of the Ravager (1994)
Dark Woods 2 (2002)
Darklands (1992)
Darkspyre (1990)
Death Bringer (1988)
Death Knights of Krynn (1991)
Defcon 5 (1995)
Defender of Boston - The Rock Island Mystery (1992)
Demons Winter (1988)
Descent to Undermountain (1998)
Disciples of Steel (1994)
DND (1986)
Don't Go Alone (1989)
Doom - The Roguelike (2005)
Dracula in London (1988)
Dragon Lord (1990)
Dragon Wars (1990)
Dragons of Flame (1989)
Drakkhen (1989)
Druid - Daemons of the Mind (1995)
Dungeon (1987)
Dungeon Crawl (1999)
Dungeon Hack (1993)
Dungeon Master (1989)
Dungeon Master II - The Legend of Skullkeep (1994)
Dungeon of Death (1994)
Dungeon Quest (1985)
Dungeons of Death (1994)
Dungeons of Kairn (1989)
Dungeons of the Unforgiven (1993)
Dusk of the Gods (1991)
Eamon (1988)
Eamon Adventure Disk 1 - The Main Hall (1988)
Eamon Adventure Disk 2 - The Ice Cave (1988)
Eamon Adventure Disk 3 - Assault on the Clone Master (1988)
Eamon Adventure Disk 4 - Quest For Trezore (1988)
Escape from Hell (1990)
Evets - The Ultimate Adventure (1988)
Excelsior Phase One - Lysandia (1993)
Eye of the Beholder (1991)
Eye of the Beholder II - The Legend of Darkmoon (1991)
Eye of the Beholder III - Assault on Myth Drannor (1993)
Fallout (1997)
FallThru (1990)
Fates of Twinion
Fire King (1990)
First Expedition (1987)
Flame Storm (1995)
Forever Legend (1998)
Fountain of Dreams (1990)
GamesRPG
Gateway to the Savage Frontier (1991)
Girlfriend Construction Set (1989)
God of Thunder (1993)
Gunblaze (1994)
Hack (1984)
Halls of the Dead - Faery Tale Adventure II (1997)
Hard Nova (1990)
Heathkit DND (1985)
Heimdall (1992)
Heimdall 2 - Into the Hall of Worlds (1994)
Hera - Sword of Rhin (1995)
Hero Quest (1992)
Heroes of the Lance (1989)
Hexx - Heresy of the Wizard (1994)
Hillsfar (1989)
Hired Guns (1993)
Hong Gildong-jeon (1993)
Hoosier City (1992)
Inindo - Way of the Ninja (1993)
Ishar - Legend of the Fortress (1992)
Ishar 2 - Messengers of Doom (1993)
Ishar 3 - The Seven Gates of Infinity (1994)
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Vol 1 (1990)
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Vol 2 (1991)
Joyous Rebel (1996)
Kahjar - The Bratockian Saga Part III (1995)
Knights of Legend (1989)
Knights of Xentar (1994)
Lands of Lore - Guardians of Destiny (1997)
Lands of Lore - The Throne of Chaos (1993)
Larn (1986)
Legacy of the Ancients (1989)
Legend of Faerghail (1990)
Legend of Saladir (1999)
Legend of the Red Dragon (1992)
Legend of the Red Dragon 2 - New World (1992)
Legends of Murder - Volume 1 Stonedale Castle (1989)
Legends of Murder - Volume 1 Stonedale Castle (1993)
Legends of Murder - Volume 2 Grey Haven (1991)
Legends of Valour (1992)
Leygref's Castle (1986)
Linley Henzell's Dungeon Crawl (1997)
Lords of Midnight (1995)
Mad Paradox (1994)
Madman (1995)
MAG (1988)
Magocracy (2004)
Mazzembly 1997 (1996)
MegaTraveller 1 - The Zhodani Conspiracy (1990)
MegaTraveller 2 - Quest for the Ancients (1991)
Menzoberranzan (1994)
Might and Magic - Book 1 (1986)
Might and Magic - Swords of Xeen (1995)
Might and Magic 2 - Gates to Another World (1988)
Might and Magic 3 - Isles of Terra (1991)
Might and Magic 4 - Couds of Xeen (1992)
Might and Magic 4+5 - World of Xeen (1994)
Might and Magic 5 - Darkside of Xeen (1993)
Mission - Mainframe (1987)
Moebius - The Orb of Celestial Harmony (1987)
Moonstone - A Hard Days Knight (1992)
Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven (1993)
Moraffs Revenge (1988)
Moraffs World (1991)
Moraffs World Beginner's Version (1993)
Moria (1992)
Morkin 2 (1992)
Mysterious Song (2000)
Mystic Towers (1994)
Nahlakh (1994)
Nemesis - The Wizardry Adventure (1996)
NetHack (1987)
Neverwinter Nights (1991)
Nurmans (1994)
Obitus (1991)
Omega (1988)
Operation - Overkill II (1990)
Oubliette (1983)
Phantasie (1987)
Phantasie 3 - The Wrath of Nikademus (1988)
Planet's Edge - The Point of No Return (1991)
Pool of Radiance (1988)
Pools of Darkness (1991)
Prophecy - The Fall of Trinadon (1989)
Prophecy of the Shadow (1992)
Psionics (1993)
Questron II (1988)
Quik Majik Adventure (1991)
Ravenloft - Stone Prophet (1995)
Ravenloft - Strahd's Possession (1994)
Realms of Arkania - Blade of Destiny (1992)
Realms of Arkania 2 - Star Trail (1994)
Realms of Arkania 3 - Shadows over Riva (1996)
Reaping the Dungeon (1993)
Ring Cycle (1996)
Rings of Zilfin (1987)
Robinson's Requiem (1994)
Rogue (1983)
Rogue Clone (1988)
Rome - Pathway to Power (1993)
Ruins of Cawdor
Scavengers of the Mutant World (1988)
Secret of the Silver Blades (1990)
Sentinel Worlds 1 - Future Magic (1988)
Shadow of Yserbius (1993)
Shadow Sorcerer (1991)
Shadowlands (1993)
Shadoworlds (1993)
Shadows of Cairn (1994)
Shapeshifter (1992)
Shard of Spring (1986)
Silmar (1990)
Sleeping Gods Lie (1989)
Solar Winds - Galaxy (1993)
Sorcerer's Bane (1992)
Sorcerian (1990)
Space 1889 (1990)
Space Rogue (1989)
Spacewrecked - 14 Billion Light Years From Earth (1991)
Spelljammer - Pirates of Realmspace (1992)
Spirit of Adventure (1991)
Spiritual Warfare (1993)
Star Command (1988)
Star Saga One - Beyond the Boundary (1987)
Star Saga Two - The Clathren Menace (1989)
Starflight (1986)
Starflight 2 - Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula (1989)
StarQuest - Rescure at Rigel (1983)
StarQuest - Star Warrior (1983)
Stonekeep (1995)
Super ZZT (1992)
Sword Quest 1 - The Search (1992)
Sword Quest 2 - Tale of the Talisman (1993)
Swords of Glass (1986)
Tangled Tales (1989)
Telengard (1985)
Temple of Apshai Trilogy (1982)
Ten Nights of Killing and Mayhem at F.J.B. II (1996)
Teradyne (1992)
The Aethra Chronicles - Volume One - Celystra's Bane (1994)
The Bard's Tale 1 - Tales Of The Unknown (1987)
The Bard's Tale 2 - The Destiny Knight (1988)
The Bard's Tale 3 - Thief Of Fate (1990)
The Bard's Tale Construction Set (1991)
The Dark Heart of Uukrul (1989)
The Dark Queen of Krynn (1992)
The Dragon Sword (1990)
The Elder Scrolls - Arena (1994)
The Elder Scrolls - Daggerfall (1996)
The Faery Tale Adventure - Book 1 (1989)
The Four Crystals of Trazere (1992)
The Infernal Tome (1994)
The Keys to Maramon (1990)
The Kingdom of Syree (1992)
The Land (1989)
The Magic Candle (1989)
The Magic Candle 2 - The Four and Forty (1991)
The Magic Candle 3 (1992)
The Nine Lives of Secret Agent Katt (1991)
The Original Mulan (1998)
The Red Crystal - The Seven Secrets of Life (1993)
The Rescue of Lorri in Lorrinitron (1991)
The Seven Spirits of Ra (1987)
The Summoning (1992)
The Valley (2001)
Times of Lore (1988)
Totally Smashed (1995)
Tower of Souls (1995)
Towers - Lord Baniff's Deceit (1994)
Treasures of the Savage Frontier (1992)
Treehouse Truants (1994)
Trial by Magic (1995)
Tunnels & Trolls - Crusaders of Khazan (1990)
Ultima 0 - Akalabeth (1980)
Ultima I - The First Age of Darkness (1986)
Ultima II - Revenge of the Enchantress (1983)
Ultima III - Exodus (1983)
Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar (1985)
Ultima Underworld - The Stygian Abyss (1992)
Ultima Underworld 2 - Labyrinth of Worlds (1993)
Ultima V - Warriors of Destiny (1988)
Ultima VI - The False Prophet (1990)
Ultima VII Part 1 - The Black Gate + Forge of Virtue (1992)
Ultima VII Part 2 - Serpent Isle + The Silver Seed (1993)
Ultima VIII - Pagan (1994)
Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2 - Martian Dreams (1991)
Ultimuh MCMLXVII - Part 2 of the 39th Trilogy - The Quest for the Golden Amulet (1993)
Ultizurk (1995)
Ultizurk 2- The Shadow Master (1993)
Ultizurk 3 - The Guildmaster's Quest (1995)
Unlimited Adventures (1993)
UnReal World (1994)
Untima IX - Descension (2003)
Valhalla (1993)
Vampyr - Talisman of Invocation (1990)
Visions of Aftermath - The Boomtown (1988)
Walls of Bratock, The (1993)
Warrior of Ras - Volume One - Dunzhin (1982)
Warriors of Legend (1993)
Wasteland (1988)
Whale's Voyage (1993)
Wibarm (1989)
Windwalker (1989)
Wizard Wars (1988)
Wizard Warz (1987)
Wizard's Crown (1985)
Wizard's Lair (1988)
Wizardry I - Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (1981)
Wizardry II - The Knight of Diamonds (1982)
Wizardry III - Legacy of Llylgamyn (1983)
Wizardry IV - The Return of Werdna (1986)
Wizardry V - Heart of the Maelstrom (1988)
Wizardry VI - Bane of the Cosmic Forge (1990)
Wizardry VII - Crusaders of the Dark Servant (1992)
World of Aden - Thunderscape (1995)
Worlds of Legend - Son of the Empire (1992)
Worlds of Ultima - The Savage Empire (1990)
Wraith (1995)
X-Men 2 - The Fall of the Mutants (1991)
Yendorian Tales - The Tyrants of Thaine (1997)
Yendorian Tales Book1 (1994)
Yendorian Tales Book1 - Chapter 2 (1996)
Ys - The Vanished Omens (1989)
Zeliard (1990)
ZZT (1991)
ZZT's City (1991)









The eXoDos collection can be run from any directory, as all launch files are designed to use relative paths to each other. The front-end however does require knowledge of what directory it is sitting in. Simply running the "Setup eXoDOS.bat" file will automatically setup eXoDOS to run from your current directory.

This file also decompresses the GamesADV.zip file, which contains all of the manuals, art, and game information for each title. This will take some time to decompress as it is approx. 1gb in size.

If you have other eXoDOS packs, the Setup eXoDOS.bat file will also decompress their front end assets. All volumes use the same setup file. It works with any combination of the packs.

Suggestions for those updating:

• Point this torrent to the old directory and let it over write the old files. Doing this should start you around 88%
• Delete the exodos\games\games\ directory and rerun the 'Setup eXoDOS.bat' file. This ensures old crap I removed doesn't linger.
• It is safe to download this to the same folder as other exodos torrents, however you may have to disable a few shared files such as the meagre.ini file. I plan to fix this in the next release.

See the included documentation for more information.




There are 5 volumes in total in the DOS collection.

Vol I: Adventure
Vol II: RPG
Vol III: Strategy
Vol IV: Sim/Sports/Racing/Educational
Vol V: Action

Upcoming:
Win3xO - A win 3.x games collection (ETA late 2014/early 2015)


Upcoming:
Win3xO - A win 3.x games collection (ETA late 2014/early 2015)






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[NickTheGreek]

eXo has done an amazing job with these collections !!!

[parasite55000]

thank you. great job