Last Updated
21-Set-2004
Mike Singleton's
Lords of Midnight
(LOM) and
Doomdark's Revenge
(DDR) were the two most playable adventure games for ZX
Spectrum.
With only 48K, they allowed the player to be immersed in a Tolkien like graphic
adventure, for endless hours.
They told about the fate of Luxor the Moonprince in his quest against Doomdark,
the evil wizard in the lands of Midnight, and later, against his daughter,
Shareth the Heartstealer, in the lands of Icemark.
The fortress of Kahangrorn is Shareth's personal stronghold.
Shareth exists. I found her. She has ice eyes. Obviously.
Following the unsuccessful PC revival attempt by the author Mike Singleton to
produce a LOM III , there were some dark years in the nineties, until Internet
showed up. Then, the legions of admirers gathered in a Yahoo! group,
and Chris Wild started the PC conversion for LOM. A new era was beginning.
Nowadays, we are beyond.
Here goes the list of the current Midnight development projects under
construction, no special order:
DISCUSSION GROUP FOR LORDS OF MIDNIGHT AND DOOMDARK'S REVENGE
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midnight/
THE MIDNIGHT ENGINE
(c) Chris Wild, Jure Rogelj
http://www.icemark.com
THE WAR OF THE SOLSTICE (WOTS)
(c) Andrew Smart 2002
http://www.frozenempire.net
THE LORDS OF MIDNIGHT ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAME
(c) Jean-Yves 2003
http://www.midnightmu.icemark.com
THE LEGENDS ENGINE
OpenGL
(c) Jon 2002
http://www.geocities.com/jonalma/
MARSHALL LORDS
Java
(c) Ben 2002
http://chthonic.150m.com/marshall
http://clik.to/chthonic
run 'javaw midmark.Midmark'
MIDNIGHT FLYER
Visual Basic
(c) Jaz aka Imtiaz Dharsssi
http://www.geocities.com/idharssi/lomexe.html
TME EDITOR
(c) Robert Jalarvo
http://www.helsinki.fi/~rjalarvo/lom/lom.htm
MAP EXPLORER
(c) Igor Bijelic
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midnight/files/LoMEx.zip
Next is one of the most laughable posts to the
Midnight group in 2002
You have never heard of a Sinclair Spectrum or C64. The
idea of a
computer consisting of nothing but a rubber keyboard is beyond
you.... ans loading anything by a cassette tape that can take three
to four minutes is just someone telling a bad joke.....
Now you all know that these things really did happen. You also know
why the Lords of Midnight, and therefore the Midnight Engine look
like they do..... But these were the very problems I came up against
just yesterday when my 12 year old daughter wanted to know why I kept
playing this 'funny looking game'. She wanted to know how to play it
and sat with me for a good hour while I made a complete mess of my
strategy on the Midnight Engine.
However, she has got some idea how it works now... but insists that
it's far more complicated than 'The Sims' (of which is now occupying
a massive 2.5 to 3 GB on my hard drive!!). Praise inded from the next
generation of a game written in 48k some 18 years ago.
Proof once again that Mike Singleton came up with something way ahead
of the times competition. Also, have I possibly just introduced the
first interested female into the the land of Midnight!?
Kevin
LOADS OF MIDNIGHT
It's a parody game for ZX Spectrum. If you have
played Lords of Midnight before, play this. You'll laugh !
LoadsOfMidnght.zip
Last, but not least, here is a nice novel wrote by myself during a passionate time, based on known characters and on the Mike Singleton's chronicles.
If you are interested in writing a Fantasy Novel and require proper character naming, please refer to this amazing page
The Ever Changing Book of Names
The software lies below. With it, you can create hundreds of naames for Adventures, based on the naming rules for Midnight, or for other types of literature like Tolkien, Viking, Latin, etc. Amazing. Try it!
Here is a relic - a screenshot of an early version of The Midnight Engine, the PC conversion for the Lords of Midnight.
Copyright (c) 1999 Chris Wild - The Midnight Engine
Most of all, don't forget to visit the Moonring.
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