What happened to Lantern of D'Gamma
Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 4:53 am
http://solutionarchive.com/Various/Druadic_9912.html says that the solution to Lantern of D'Gamma is here, but it's not among the solutions
Seems to be working fine on my AppleWin 1.14.0-beta. Maybe you downloaded a corrupted copy of the game. I downloaded it here:terri wrote:Presuming this is an Apple game, I can't seem to get it to load.
I am using Applewin 1.14.2. I get the loadoing screen, but then it quits.
Any help with this?
How? I suppose it has to do with the buttons in the mailbox which apparently lower the drawbridge, but I have not been able to get what number to enter.Angus wrote:At this point it's only a scrap of paper. You don't even need to do the tunnels. By taking the key and whatever else it is you find in the lit part of the tunnels, you can get into the rest of the castle.
At the end of the diary? When I try to read the diary all the text I see is coded.The bugger for me right now is that damn code at the end of the diary. I've put in about a dozen hours writing a computer program to try to crack it, but so far it hasn't worked.
Well, since you put it that way, I guess you could say that there are 2 ways to get into the castle, one is through the tunnels, and another is the drawbridge.Juan wrote:How? I suppose it has to do with the buttons in the mailbox which apparently lower the drawbridge, but I have not been able to get what number to enter.Angus wrote:At this point it's only a scrap of paper. You don't even need to do the tunnels. By taking the key and whatever else it is you find in the lit part of the tunnels, you can get into the rest of the castle.
Ya think? Actually, there are 2 codes used in the diary. It didn't take me too many minutes to break the code for the first part, but I've been days on the second one. What are you doing with the diary anyway, if you can't get into the castle?At the end of the diary? When I try to read the diary all the text I see is coded.The bugger for me right now is that damn code at the end of the diary. I've put in about a dozen hours writing a computer program to try to crack it, but so far it hasn't worked.
Yes, but what number are you supposed to enter for the drawbridge to come down? (if that's the way to do it.) The number (256) in the mailbox descripton does not seem to work, and so far I haven't seen anything else that looks like a "clue" about this.Angus wrote:Well, since you put it that way, I guess you could say that there are 2 ways to get into the castle, one is through the tunnels, and another is the drawbridge.
As you said yourself above, there's two ways to get into the castle. I got in through the tunnels.Ya think? Actually, there are 2 codes used in the diary. It didn't take me too many minutes to break the code for the first part, but I've been days on the second one. What are you doing with the diary anyway, if you can't get into the castle?
The difficult to decipher part is this:dave wrote:Do you want to put up the coded bit? I don't have much time to play the game through (Terri and Doreen are keeping me busy with buggy Spectrum adventures), but I'm always up for a challenge
Correct, 256 is key to the solution. Remember, a lot of these puzzles are solved mathematically. What's that? Shut up and give you the answer? Ok, I think the right number is 16. Whatever it is, you are supposed to break up the digits of 256 then perform a multiplication and an addition on them.Juan wrote:Yes, but what number are you supposed to enter for the drawbridge to come down? (if that's the way to do it.) The number (256) in the mailbox descripton does not seem to work, and so far I haven't seen anything else that looks like a "clue" about this.Angus wrote:Well, since you put it that way, I guess you could say that there are 2 ways to get into the castle, one is through the tunnels, and another is the drawbridge.
OK, thanks, but sounds a bit arbitrary. I had tried changing the numbers fom their original sequence (652, 526, 625, etc.), and also adding all the numbers (13), but it did not work. Was there some "clue" about this multiplication + addition somewhere that I missed?Angus wrote:Correct, 256 is key to the solution. Remember, a lot of these puzzles are solved mathematically. What's that? Shut up and give you the answer? Ok, I think the right number is 16. Whatever it is, you are supposed to break up the digits of 256 then perform a multiplication and an addition on them.