ECS no. 1
ECS no. 2

Curse Of The Azure Bonds

General info

Not Amiga Original

Relationships

WHDLoad

2008-02-01

Stats

6,791

Genre

Conversions

Apple II/IIGS
Apple Macintosh (Classic)
Atari ST/E
Commodore C64/128
NEC PC-98
PC (DOS)
Tandy PC/IBM PCjr

ECS / OCS

Version info

No
Max 1, Sim 1

Features

Credits

Hard Disk Installer

Yes

- HD installer is contained on disk 1. - Installation requires requires approx. 2Mb HD space. - HD gameplay requires at least 800K ram and more than 1Mb ram if playing while multitasking.

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1990
Curse Of The Azure Bonds
Commercial
Full Price
Rest of the World
English
2
One version is common, at least one other version is rare
1990
Curse Of The Azure Bonds
Commercial
Full Price
Europe
English
2
One version is common, at least one other version is rare

Notes

[1] CURSE OF THE AZURE BONDS is a licensed Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing computer game. Additionally, it's the second of four games in the Forgotten Realms fantasy world series, preceded by POOL OF RADIANCE and followed by SECRET OF THE SILVER BLADES and POOLS OF DARKNESS.

[2] Game based on the TSR novel Azure Bonds by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb.

[3] Game allows players to import characters from AD&D computer RPGs POOL OF RADIANCE and HILLSFAR.


Known releases: V1.0 (17-Oct-1990), V1.1 (1990)

Conversion Notes

Based on 1989 SSI Special Projects Group/SSI 8-bit (C64/128, Apple II) and PC/Tandy releases.
PC versions: CGA, EGA, Tandy

Screen info

ECS / OCS
Screenshot ECS no. 3

Screenshot ECS no. 4

Screenshot ECS no. 5

Box: ECS / OCS
Box scan ECS no. 1

U.S. Release (front)

Box scan ECS no. 2

U.S. Release (back)

Box scan ECS no. 3

UK Release (front)

Box scan ECS no. 4

UK Release (back)

Disk: ECS / OCS
Disk scan ECS no. 1

U.S. Release

Disk scan ECS no. 2

U.S. Release

Disk scan ECS no. 3

UK Release

Misc: ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

U.S. Advert (CGW 60 6/1989, Pages 8 & 9)

ECS no. 2

UK Advert (Amiga Format, Issue 27, 10/1991, Pages 42 & 43)

Manual info

ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

Adventurers Journal (English)

ECS no. 2

Clue Book (English)

ECS no. 3

Manual (German) [Source: Atari Mania]

ECS no. 4

Adventurers Journal (German) [Source: Atari Mania]

ECS no. 5

Codewheel

ECS / OCS

Once you find any item you can make as many copies of it as you want.

1. Create a dummy character. 2. Load a saved game and transfer all the good items to the dummy. 3. Remove the dummy character from the party. 4. Load the dummy character back in. 5. Transfer the items to other members. 6. Drop the dummy character from the party. 7. Repeat steps 4-6 as many times as needed.

This also works for Champions of Krynn and Pool of Radiance.

In case anyone was wondering, The `Wizard in Red’ refers to Dracandros. He is the owner of the Crescent Moon bond. The `Woman in Green’ refers to the leader of the Cultists of Moander. They, of course, are the owners of the Mouth in the Hand bond, which is the symbol of the God Moander. The `Lord of the Black’ refers to the leader of the Zhentrim, or `Black Network’, an evil alliance of priests, mages and thieves that operate out of Zhentil Keep. They own the big `Z’ in the Triangle bond. Lastly, `The Flamed One’ is, of course, good old Tyranthraxus. He owns the Flaming Bond, which is the Symbol of Tyranthraxus.

To defeat Tyranthraxus, you must gather the Amulet of Lathander, which is in Zhentil Keep, the Helm of Dragons, which is currently being kept by Dracandros in his castle near Haptooth, and the Gauntlet of Moander, which is kept by Mogion (the Woman in Green!) in Yulash. You must take these items to the Pool of Radiance.

Apple II/IIGS
No conversion screens found.
Apple Macintosh (Classic)
No conversion screens found.
Atari ST/E
No conversion screens found.
Commodore C64/128
Conversion Commodore C64/128

Conversion Commodore C64/128

NEC PC-98
No conversion screens found.
PC (DOS)
Conversion PC (DOS)

CGA

Conversion PC (DOS)

Conversion PC (DOS)

EGA

Conversion PC (DOS)

Tandy PC/IBM PCjr
No conversion screens found.

Map info

ECS / OCS

No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Action
16 (Jan 1991)
72%
Doug Johns
Alex Simmons
1
Amiga Joker
Jan 1991
74%
Werner Hiersekorn
1
Amiga Joker
Sonderheft Nr.3 - Rollenspiele
63%
Joachim Nettelbeck
5
Datormagazin
No 8 (Apr 1990)
4/10
Mattias Melin
1
Datormagazin
No 19 (Dec 1990)
7/10
Göran Fröjdh
1
Info
37 (Mar 1991)
4/5
Judith Kilbury-Cobb
1
Svenska Hemdatornytt
No 1 (Jan 1991)
82.5%
Clas
0
Zzap
69 (Jan 1991)
71%
0

MAGAZINE PREVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
No magazine previews found

ECS / OCS

Lore Score: 63%

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