Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Halls of the Things in HD


There are some talented people in the world, and some of them are mad. One such is a guy called Andy Stewart who (completely of his own volition) has written a version of Halls of the Things in C# and released it on an unsuspecting world... It's so faithful to the orignal that I took it upon myself to appoint him the fourth evil lord in honour of this evil deed; I'm sure Neil and Martin would approve.



He has created a web-page for this allowing it to be downloaded : http://www.whatisblueandfurry.com/hott/halls08.html

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; but those bastards are dynamite...

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5 comments:

  1. Heh, the sound effects are stolen from Doom.

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  2. It used to amuse us when reviewers moaned about Halls having no sound effects - nobody *ever* played it silently. It didn't need cheap sounds, from the frantic clicking of keys to strangled screams the player provided enough of 'em...

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  3. Very very good. It's probably going to write off my keyboard. Occasionally ignores up/down commands though. Which is pretty fatal !!

    Best I've done is 4 rings so far. I used to be good at this!

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  4. > I used to be good at this!

    I spent far longer than I'm prepared to admit playing the Amstrad CPC version on an emulator a month or so ago before I managed to complete it, and that was on normal settings - I couldn't win with either the "interesting mazes" or the "faster monsters" options set, and I'm sure I used to beat both of those regularly... I'd have played this version instead but I didn't have it on the laptop, doh!

    I think the things are getting nastier. Either that or 26 years has slowed us down, and that's [Princess Bride Mode:on] "inconceivable!" [Princess Bride Mode:off]

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  5. I still have the cassette... easily the best speccy game.

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