[1] Distributed in Australia by Mindscape. Distributed in France and translated to French by Silmarils. Distributed in Germany and translated to German by Ariolasoft.
[2] The little-known Turkish and Italian releases are extremely hard to find and receive a rarity rating of 4 stars.
Last known release: V1.0 (1990)
TRIVIA – In an overview of DRAGON LORD on his website, coder Andrew Bailey had these memories to share about the game in looking back on its development:
'The game almost didn't make it because of hardware (hard disk) failure. The game was developed on an Amiga 2000 with a PC-XT bridge board providing the hard disk support. One day, after much time had passed since a backup, the hard disk just failed and many hours of rebooting didn't bring it back up. So I went on a long walk and resigned myself to a long session re-coding. When I got home, I powered up the Amiga once more and the hard disk magically whirled into action. I quickly went and bought 50 floppy disks and backed up the hard disk. The hard disk didn't fail again, but I learnt my lesson and have been a backup fanatic ever since.
Because the game was developed on the Amiga, the artwork was developed with its capabilites in mind. This meant each screen could not use more than 32 colours, so the artist had to design a palette for each screen. However, the palette of 32 colours could be changed at any point on the screen, so the menu icons on the bottom had their own set of 32 colours. The arcade section could only use 16 colours as the shadow effect used a bitplane trick, with half the palette being a dimmed version of the other half.' [Source: Andrew Bailey(coder), via his website]
PC versions: Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA, Tandy
U.S. Release (front) [Source: Moby Games]
U.S. Release (back) [Source: Moby Games]
U.S. Release [Source: Moby Games]
UK Advert [2] [Source: Atari Mania]
Australian Advert [Source: Atari Mania]
French Advert [Source: Atari Mania]
A nice spell to know:
3 Rasgon (grind) (full heat) 3 Haloros (cut) (full condenser) 3 Igele (normal) (full heat) (medium condenser) 2 Rasgon (grind) (full heat)
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DRAGON LORD - CODES
Page Line Word
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01 03 02 effect
01 05 05 of
01 09 07 gather
02 02 07 bottle
02 08 01 mixing
02 12 03 clicking
03 03 05 than
03 05 01 beneficial
03 10 03 spell
04 01 07 chart
04 04 05 example
04 06 01 either
05 03 01 results
05 07 04 seven
05 10 01 each
06 06 06 stock
06 09 01 positive
06 11 05 markers
07 03 05 circles
07 07 02 the
07 10 02 is
08 03 01 smelling
08 05 04 strength
08 10 04 streams
09 01 02 animal
09 07 03 curing
09 12 04 blood
10 03 05 rainwater
10 06 06 common
10 08 02 director
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