Hello geo03 and thank you for your question.
Fortunately 'The Dungeons of Daggerath' has quite a cult following and
so details of the game are not too hard to dig up. Below I have
listed various sites where you can buy the original game, discuss the
game on a forum, or download for free a TRS 80 emulator and the game.
This is a large article including resources for free downloading of a
TRS 80 Emulator and free version of the game:
"'The Dungeons of Daggerath' is a video game for the TRS 80
(affectionately known as the trash 80), released in 1982 by DynaMicro.
The game is mostly black and white (although it does have some
artifacted red, green and blue colours), and is about 8K bytes in
size.
8 thousand bytes! That is less then the size of this 1 webpage alone.
Who can imagine how tight and brilliant the code must have been to
make such a great game fit in to only 8,000 letters and #s.
Some have called it the original Doom or the first 3d shooter. Alot of
us who have played it have not defeated it because it is a very
challenging game. It requires the players full maximum attention,
alertness, and dexterity. It requires that the player be able to keep
his witts together in the heat of a hot chaotic battle when all the
odds are against him. MANY people have played it and loved it and
somehow left it behind and continued with their lives only to have it
haunt their memory and leave them wondering if they will ever defeat
the evil wizard. The game is such an experiance, even with the crummy
sound and graphics that the TRS-80 yeilds, the author has tweaked that
slow machine to its limits. It gives one the biggest euphoric rush of
addrenaline and actually makes one tense and sit up and sweat and join
in, like one is actually there. It actually takes skill.
This page is for the dungeon adventurors. Those who survive it are
called Adventure Survivors -peace be upon them-. There are thousands
of us from all over the world. Dungeons of Daggorath is a powerful
world experiance."
Also:
"The meaning of "Daggorath"
"Stanley M. Jeram" has presented the following enlightening comment on
the meaning of the word "daggorath":
"(the following) is a document from a Tolkien webpage. It talks about
the language that Tolkien uses in his novels. It also mentions the
word Dagorath, and the meaning, and where it is used in the novels.
The meaning is "Battle". I think that the creators of the game
probably took that word and added another "g", because the other word,
Dagorath, is copyrighted, so they made the word Daggorath. They made a
game Dungeons of Daggorath, which means, if you use Tolkien's
interpretation, Dungeons of Battle, which clearly makes sense."
'...Before the collective plural ending -ath (see below), we would not
expect to see the subsequently developed vowel o. For instance, we
would expect the collective plural of dagr "battle" to be dagrath (not
attested), unaffected by the fact that dagr had later become dagor
when it occurred as a simplex (by itself). Yet in UT:395, 396 we find,
not dagrath, but dagorath, though there can be little doubt that the
latter is a historically unjustified form: R was not final or syllabic
in dagrath, so no o would develop in front of it, and dagorath must be
formed on analogy with the simplex dagor....' "
http://members.tripod.com/~Frodpod/index-2.html
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There is a forum dedicated to the discussion of 'The Dungeons of
Daggerath' and you can access it by clicking on the link below:
http://mspencer.net/forum/index.php?viewcat=5
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If you scroll down the page at the website below you will be able to
see a screen shot of the original cartridge (click on 'Look')
http://www.evg2000.com/html/Radio_Shack_CoCo.htm
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Follow the instructions at the following site to download another
emulator and the game (Free)
http://classicgaming.com/daggorath/
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You can also buy an original cartridge here:
"Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer Cartridges & Peripherals: two
joysticks and cables for cassette interface, and the following
cartridges: "Dungeons of Daggorath", "Don Pan", "Roman Checkers",
"Downland", and "Color Scripsit". Basic operation of cartridges has
been checked out."
http://www.classiccmp.org/calcmuseum/trade.htm
The email contact is calc04@calcmuseum.com
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Thank you for your question, and if you need any clarification of my
answer, do not hesitate to ask.
Very best regards and have a nice trip down 8Kb memory lane!
THX1138
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