ScuzzBlog: Diaries January 2025 Entry 31st January 2025: Post 1: Black Crypt - CU cover disk nonsense. Black Crypt - CU cover disk nonsense. I decided yesterday to close the month early as the last blog turned out to be a complete waste of time. It all started with me pulling a game manual for Black Crypt from the bookshelf as I searched for A-TRAIN stuff. I got to thumbing through the pages and decided to make a feature and maybe play the game. In commenting on the game it is always nice to have a magazine review as a guide. The CUAmiga review March 92 looked pretty good and so I dragged that from the shelves. I generally grab the cover disks also. When I tested the cover disks they were making dreadful noise and so I set too getting them sorted. Only took a single pass on the external drive and a copy with DOpus and both disks were running like new. So I did all the photography and planned on playing Black Crypt on the emulator. First though I wanted to test the cover disks. I fired up disk 28 and it threw up a memory error. Then with disk 29 the Harlequin game worked but not the other. It was now getting late. I decided to download the two disks from EAB Magazine Rack and use those. Amazingly disk 28 gave the same error and the game would not run from the second disk. My next move was the dumbest. I moved to the A500 in the disk room and tried the disks from a working Amiga. This time Disk 28 booted up but sadly had a real issue with its menu format. The process of selection kept firing up an AmigaDOS window that either froze or moved on to the actual selection requested. I must have restarted a dozen times. The selection of items on Disk 28 was poor to say the least, with a print manager that didn't work and strange menu options that provided very little direction as to what they were for. Also the picture of the car turned out to be Mona Lisa. Time was moving on. I moved to Disk 29 and on the menu it said the print software wasn't working. Sadly neither was the first game. No matter how many of my disks I tried. And sadly Harlequin was garbage. I had failed in truth. I ran out of retro time and concluded I would just abandon the whole thing. I slept on it and decided to explain what happened. So hey, sorry for that. Black Crypt turned out to be an Eye of the Beholder and a pretty standard dungeon clicking corridor game. I wasn't impressed. It was good to see the faces of the creators in the manual. Anyhoo I failed. Never mind. Was good to see Elvira. That made me smile. Black Crypt - CU cover disk nonsense.

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