However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. As you get more gold coins, you can go back to the first room to buy more equipment while trying to find the magic scroll.These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. You always look in each room in the direction you are moving, so for example North may be in a different direction than above.

Creatures also appear and you can attack them before they attack you and weaken or kill you.

You type a letter to tell the computer your next action and this can include moving in a certain direction, saying spells, opening objects and many others. This is a dark dungeon, so all the rooms you enter cannot be seen, except for the items you need or interact with, with text describing each room. Once you are ready with your selection and your purchases, you will enter the dungeon. Items you can buy include sword, lantern, spells and armor. You then select whether you are a fighter or a mage before being able to choose the equipment you can buy from a dwarf with your limited amount of gold coins.

Before starting the quest you are shown your ability with various attributes being strength, wisdom, intellect, constitution and dexterity, each having a figure between 4 and 20. After surviving the dungeons, you now enter the Dark Dungeons to find a magic scroll containing a riddle that you must solve to escape, avoiding a fire-breathing dragon and several other creatures.

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