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Information about “THE LAND 2 OF 2 (ALSO 2158)”
A fantasy role-playing game based on the book "The Chronicles of Thomas
Covenant." Choose from six character classes, and explore towns,
villages, and dungeons in search of treasure and magic.
Buy and trade armor, weapons, food, or magic items from the townspeople,
who sometimes have helpful hints about the game. Mapping is simple in
THE LAND since the program does it for you. As you search a town, a
dungeon, or the outside world, an overhead view shows where you are,
and how much is left to explore of that region.
You can save your game at any time -- handy if you are about to do
battle with a dragon, or Hydra. Like Ultima and Questron this game will
take you many hours to complete as your character gains experience and
knowledge in the place called THE LAND.
FILE2159.TXT
Disk No: 2159
Disk Title: The Land 2 of 2 (also 2158)
PC-SIG Version: S1
Program Title: The Land
Author Version: 2.2
Author Registration: $25.00
Special Requirements: CGA, or EGA.
THE LAND is a fantasy role-playing game based on the book "The
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant". Choose from six character classes, and
explore towns, villages, and dungeons in search of treasure and magic.
Buy and trade armor, weapons, food, or magic items from the townspeople,
who sometimes have helpful hints about the game. Mapping is simple in
THE LAND since the program does it for you. As you search a town, a
dungeon, or the outside world, an overhead view shows where you are,
and how much is left to explore of that region.
Playing THE LAND you can save your game at any time, or place, which
comes in handy if your about to do battle with a dragon, or Hydra.
Like Ultima, and Questron this game will take you many hours to complete
as your character gains experience and knowledge in a place called
THE LAND.
PC-SIG
1030D East Duane Avenue
Sunnyvale Ca. 94086
(408) 730-9291
(c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.
FILES.DOC
THELAND.COM - Main program file
THELAND.000 \
THELAND.001 \
THELAND.002 \
THELAND.003 - Overlay files
THELAND.004 /
THELAND.005 /
THELAND.006 /
THELAND.007 /
LAND.MAP - Data file for upland map
REVELSTN.MAP - Data file for Revelstone map
STONDOWN.MAP - Data file for Stonedown map
WOODHELV.MAP - Data file for Woodhelvin map
THELAND.EGA - EGA sprite file
THELAND.CGA - CGA sprite file
GENERAL.DAT - File containing general messages
LORE.DAT - File containing lore scrolls
MONSTER.DAT - File containing monster data
OBJECTS.DAT - File containing objects data
SPELLS.DAT - Data file containing spell information
SCORES.DAT - File containing high scores
PDLAND.DOC - Brief documentation file
MAKESCOR.COM - Program to reset/recreate SCORES.DAT file
GO.TXT
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║ <<<< DISK #2159 THE LAND >>>> ║
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║ This program requires a hard disk, about 900k of free space, and ║
║ CGA or EGA graphics. ║
║ Make a subdirectory on your hard disk and copy all files on this disk ║
║ and #2158 to it. Once this is done go to hard disk and type: THELAND ║
║ To print documentation, type: COPY PDLAND.DOC PRN ║
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PDLAND.DOC
THE LAND
V1.9
By Mike Riley
License: The user of this program has a limited distribution license,
This allows you to freely copy and share this program with your
friends as long as no charge or fee is placed on this program.
Although this program is released as shareware the program and
documentation are are copywrited by the author.
Notice to software distribution houses: This program may NOT be
distributed without first entering a licensing agreement with the
author.
You are encouraged to regester your copy of THE LAND with the author,
the regestration fee is $25. For this regestration you will receive
the latest version of THE LAND, The complete printed documentation, as
well as future update notices. For a $35 regestration you will also
recieve the books "The chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever"
upon which this game is bases.
If you have any questions concerning this or other R.C.S. programs
write to:
Riley Computer Services
Mike Riley
14062 Peardale road
Grass Valley, CA 95945
System Requirements:
384k Ram minimum
720k or 1.2m floppy drive or Hard Disk.
A hard disk is recommended for play since this program makes
extensive use of overlays that operate slowly on floppy drives.
And now to the game.
This game is based on the trilogy "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant"
written by Stephen R. Donaldson. If you like fantasy type reading I
strongly recomend you read this series of books.
OBJECT: This game belongs to the Rouge Genre of games. You create a
character, travel the lands and dungeons in search of treasure and
magic. There is a main goal to this game that you will discover while
you play.
CHARACTER CLASSES:
LORESRAAT
This is about the most powerfull in the game but the hardest
advancement. This player can cast the most powerfull of spells, and
use the most powerfull of artifacts. This character also has good
fighting ability.
RHADHAMAERL
This character is dedicated to the lore of stone and therefore can
cast only the stone lore spells. This class is mostly magic using and
little fighting ability. This class may at any time join either the
LORESRAAT or the WARWARD, If the player does this then he will no
longer advance in Rhadhamaerl skill.
LILIANRILL
This character is dedicated to the lore of wood and therefore can
cast only the wood lore spells. This class also is mostly magic using
and therefore has little fighting ability. This class also may join
the LORESRAAT or the WARWARD, If the player does this then he will no
longer advance in Lilianrill skill.
BLOODGUARD
This class is of the Haruchai race. This class is immune to both
sleep and fear. This class cannot use any weapon or armour. Defense
and attack are both very strong with this character class. This class
is strictly of fighting ability and cannot use any magical items.
Bloodguard automaticaly acquire a Ranyhyn at the beginning of the
game.
RAMEN
The Ramen are the tenders of the Ranyhyn (the great horses). Ramen
are strictly fighting characters and cannot use any armour or weapons.
Ramen are immune to fear. Ramen may not at any time ride any type of
mount.
WARWARD
The warward is your basic average fighter class. Any weapon or
armour can be used, as well as lesser magical items, But no artifacts.
GIANTS
Giants are basically very strong characters and can hit very hard.
Giants cannot use any weapons or armour since they would be too small
for them. Magical items may also not be used by giants except
potions. Giants are immune to fire attacks and fear.
SERVICE
All characters have some vow or oath to follow, This is followed by
giving a certain amount of time to their cause. This service must be
rendered, for if it is not then the characters abilities will be
reduced. The amount of service changes from class to class and level
to level. Basicly start with 6 months of service per year and add 1
month every five levels. The actual schedule of service is in the
full documentation for the program. The only class that does not have
to perform any service are the giants. This service must be given at
the players starting point.
ITEMS:
HURTLOAM - If this items is possesed by anyone who has any Rhadhamaerl
skill, Hurtloam acts like a potion of healing.
RILLINLURE - If this item is posses by anyone who has any Lilianrill
skill then Rillinlure and be used like a potion of healing.
GRAVELING - This item in the hands of Rhadhamaerl is used to produce
light.
LILIANRILL - This item in the hands of the Lilianrill is used to
produce light.
GILDENLODE - This item in the possesion of either giants or Lilianrill
will allow water travel.
ORCREST - This item allows Rhadhamaerl characters to cast their spells
at half the mana cost.
LOMILLIALOR - This item allows Lillianrill characters to cast theri
spells at half the normal mana cost.
RANYHYN - If this is Y then the player has a Ranyhyn as his mount.
Commands:
> - Go down stairs
< - Go up stairs
i - Inventory
I - Identify freindly characters
r - Read scroll
R - Show character record
z - Zap a wand
q - Quaff a potion
e - Eat food
u - Use an item
a - Activate an artifact
x - Quit and save
Q - Quit no save
s - Search
o - Open door
c - Close door
g - Get an item
f - Fire a bow
m - Cast a spell
t - Talk
p - Show party
j - Join another character to your party
8 - move up
2 - move down
4 - move left
6 - move right
7 - move up and left
9 - move up and right
1 - move down and left
3 - move down and right
w - Say words of power
l - Light a torch
h - Healing using either Rillinlure or Hurtloam
S - Land Service
L - Show log of all messages seen
? - Shows command list
H - Shows all icons
A note about scrolls:
Do not be alarmed if some scrolls that you try to read show up as
strange characters. These scrolls are beyond your characters ability
to read them. As your character increases in skill, so will your
ability to read scrolls.
Restoring Saved games.
To play a game that has been saved specify the name of the saved
game on the command line. for instance:
THELAND JUDY
Two new command line options have been added:
/C - This option converts save files from versions earlier than 1.6
to work under the newer versions. This option should be used
the first time you load your save file into the new version.
/E - This option enables EGA graphics.
Any command line options used should be placed after the saved game
name.
Note from the author:
This brief documentation file leaves out an incredible amount of
information available in the full documentation. It is strongly
recommended that you register your copy of "The Land" so that you will
recieve the full documentation, as well as getting a free copy of the
next release of the program.
Directory of PC-SIG Library Disk #2159
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory of A:\
FILES DOC 813 5-27-89 5:17a
GENERAL DAT 3888 2-14-89 9:18p
LAND MAP 10000 4-17-89 2:53a
LORE DAT 9963 5-31-89 7:29a
MAKESCOR COM 11941 6-06-89 11:37p
MONSTER DAT 8022 5-31-89 11:51p
OBJECTS DAT 9271 5-31-89 7:24p
PDLAND DOC 8351 6-01-89 4:11a
REVELSTN MAP 10000 1-01-80 1:17a
SCORES DAT 777 7-22-89 2:17a
SPELLS DAT 3724 5-31-89 12:51a
THELAND CGA 9676 6-12-89 12:11p
THELAND COM 23596 7-21-89 3:49a
THELAND EGA 9676 6-12-89 12:16p
WOODHELV MAP 10000 1-01-80 1:51a
STONDOWN MAP 10000 1-01-80 12:49a
FILE2159 TXT 2220 4-25-90 1:43p
GO BAT 38 1-01-80 1:37a
GO TXT 771 4-25-90 1:57p
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