The Temple of Apshai Trilogy includes updated graphical versions of three classic Apshai games:
-Dunjonquest: Temple of Apshai
-Dunjonquest: Upper Reaches of Apshai
-Dunjonquest: Curse of Ra
This version of the game is broken an unfortunately that seems to have always been true of the DOS build. Issues:
* No experience is ever earned meaning character progression is completely broken
* Combat is broken, the enemies do very little damage. Temple of Apshai is a punishing game and it's fairly common to die without a proper build and paying...
Recommendation: Learn from my mistake and do NOT buy this. It is a distribution of the 1989 re-release of the 1985 DOS port of the game, not the 1979 TRS-80 original. The DOS port was broken when it was released in 1985, and has never been fixed in any subsequent release over the last 38 years. The most egregious problem is that your character cannot...
I love this game, but not the bugs. The Temple of Apshai is definitely a retro/nostalgia game for 70/80s gamers -- or those who want to see what the first "legitimate hit" RPG game looked like. Unfortunately, they simply released the IBM version of the Temple of Apshai Trilogy (1985) without dealing with the bugs. The Trilogy features three different...
I wish Steam had the Commodore 64 version instead.
It's safe to say Temple of Apshai's popularity doesn't owe anything to this buggy, half-arsed, con-job of a port from 1985 (or '86). Just because PCs of then were mostly CGA 4 colour and bleeper-speaker, doesn't mean you couldn't make a decent adaptation of the game. There's other games of the time, ported to the various computers and consoles and the...
