![]() ![]() ![]() It was my older brother’s game, and I watched him slog through castle corridors, sewers, caves, and other, suspiciously similar-looking caves, with great interest. What does Stonekeep mean to me? Well, as one of the first games I played on CD-ROM after years of no more than 16 colors of action on a 386 PC, it kinda blew me away. Sure, it had its strengths – atmospheric music, a very simplified user interface that allowed focus on exploration and combat, interesting graphics (digitized actors in monster suits!) – but a tile-based faux-3D game, in first person perspective, at a time when other games were offering free 3D movement and combat? Too little, too late, Stonekeep.īut forget all that. LAST AND IMPORTANT STEP: Go Back to Step 2 of this guide and rename those files back to their original names.īasically the setup program refuses to save the settings because it was being accessed from a read-only source (the Stonekeep mounted image inside Dosbox).What began as a simple tile-based dungeon crawler was swept up by ambition and pigheaded-ness, making what could have been a true classic into a long overdue, technologically disappointing odd duck that few remember. Now the setup program will let you save the settings and in turn have music in your game. # Lines in this section will be run at startup.Ħ. # ipx - Enable ipx over UDP/IP emulation. ![]() From your main Stonekeep folder open the file "dosboxStonekeep_nf" (make a backup first), clear everything and replace it with the paragraph below: Go inside the folder "idata" and copy and paste everything to your main Stonekeep folder, overwrite or skip any files that already exist.ĥ. Open MagicISO and load "STONKEEP.CUE" and you should be able to browse the files inside the image.Ĥ. In your Stonekeep game folder: rename "STONKEEP.INST" to "STONKEEP.CUE" and "STONKEEP.GOG" to "STONKEEP.BIN", as you might have guessed this is the Stonekeep cd image in disguise. Download Magic iso from here: (it's a virtual drive).Ģ. NOTE: Anyone experienced in DOSBox and it's configuration files may perform this guide without MagicISO and right inside DOSBox itself.ġ. ![]()
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