Forgotten Realms Archives: Silver Edition

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price??!!!!?? [Posted on 2003-11-13]
ok... i have this game pack, and i bought it at a gaming boutique in the mall for 14.99, so why is it so much??? it really shouldn't cost this much!! it doesn't even include the book with all of the journal entries and passwords and such..... which still wouldn't cost you more than twenty some dollars...... just thought i'd put my 2 cents in......... cause i saved much more than that at the mall for this game!

Excited but confounded [Posted on 2003-11-28]
I somehow installed the oldest game of this collection (Pool Of Radiance) yet can not figure out how to install the rest of the games. Judging from some of the other reviews I've read I'm not the only one who has had this problem. I can't believe that the oldest one would work but not the 11 more recent games. Can't anybody provide some advice? I'm on Windows XP.

The Golden Age of 1-Player RGS [Posted on 2006-06-03]
For those having problems getting many of these games to work on modern computers-- Go to Google or Yahoo and do a search for two things- DosBox and D-Fend. They're both freeware.

Many of these games won't run properly on modern computers but that's where DosBox comes into play. It's a program that pretends it's an old DOS machine and exists only to run other programs (old games like these). It even simulates old sound cards and video modes almost perfeclty. I could go on and on. D-Fend is an excellent front-end for DosBox. If you're going to try DosBox, you'll want D-Fend. Trust me. D-Fend is easy to learn and simlifies things tremendously.

On to the main subject, these old RPGs. Before the days of the massive multiplayer RPGs we had RPGs that were centered around the sole experience of one player.. you. You would create your character or party of characters and off you'd go unto the dark unknown. No petty flame war going on in a general chat or someone discussing the latest movie while you're off in some supposed dark wilderness. It's just you, danger, strange things and nobody else. Although I do play and do like massive multiplayer RPGs, sometimes one just gets more of a feeling of adventure and mystery from some of the RPGs that were intended for the individual rather than a massive audience. If you've played Eye Of The Beholder for any length of time, then you know what I'm talking about. After all these years they're all right here. DosBox and D-Fend makes them all work. The price is worth it for the Eye of The Beholder series alone, but they're certainly not the only goodies in the package.

All the classic D&D games [Posted on 2007-01-13]
In 1991 I started playing the Pool of Radience and messed with the Pirates in the Bar. The computers back then could not handle the battle and always locked up. I wanted to finish this game and so I bought the package.

OLDIES but Goodies [Posted on 2007-04-03]
Most of these games are oldies but goodies, but anyone born past 1985 will find them umm well ya, you get the point. However, if you are someone of the present gaming generation and want to see the RPGS that your parents or older brother who now graduated from college played, well this is your chance. If anything you can later make fun of them for how old your parents or brother who graduated from college really are. As a matter of fact these games are so old that you can find them floating around the internet for free. So I encourage anyone to look there first. I know, because thats how I got all of mine originally, then I did a system restore and bought this instead because I didn't want to take the time I find them all again.

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