Eye of the Beholder (DOS)

Eye of the Beholder

Platform: DOS Year: 1990 Developer: Westwood Associates Buy: Amazon

For other games in the series, see Eye of the Beholder.

Eye of the Beholder is an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game made by Westwood studios and has a first person view in-game. The mages of Waterdeep summon four adventurers (your party) to investigate an evil that has been lurking around the city. The king tells the party about it and then sends you down into the sewers to look for the evil. When the party takes a few steps inside the sewers, the sewer door closes and a barricade of rocks follow. The party must find the evil and defeat it to get back to the surface.

Screenshots

The title screen. My party's ready to kick butt! Fighting a kobold in the first level. Along the way you'll find other people who will join your party.

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Music

The music features only three songs: The intro sequence music, the character generation music, and the ending music which is the same as the character generation music, just with less channels. The preferences in the Camp mode have an option to turn on and off the 'tunes', so there may have originally been more music, but the developers weren't able to fit them all onto the disks. The game itself doesn't have credits, but the manual does, attributing Paul Mudra for the music. He also did some level design for the game. According to Mudra, he wrote the sound effects in a program called ALFX and composed the music in AdLib Visual Composer, using his own patches. Mudra said this about the music:

“

I used Visual Composer for writing our AdLib music. For Eye of the Beholder, I created sound effects using an AdLib tool that I think was called ALFX. I don't remember anything special about the EotB music. I did design game levels for EotB though.

„

Recording

The AdLib recording starts with a 1, the PC speaker recording starts with a 2, and the Tandy recording starts with a 3. Because the ending music is the same as the Character Generation music except it doesn't loop, it has been excluded from the recording.

The Tandy recording has a glitch in the "Introduction Part 1" song, where it does not play the low G note, and instead plays a low A. This may have been to the Tandy's limitations in not being able to play notes lower than A.

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
101	Westwood Associates Logo	Paul Mudra	0:32		Download
102	Introduction Part 1	Paul Mudra	1:29		Download
103	Introduction Part 2	Paul Mudra	0:31		Download
104	Character Generation	Paul Mudra	3:30		Download

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
201	Westwood Associates Logo	Paul Mudra	0:08		Download
202	Introduction Part 1	Paul Mudra	0:20		Download

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
301	Westwood Associates Logo	Paul Mudra	0:08		Download
302	Introduction Part 1	Paul Mudra	0:20		Download

Credits

• Ripper: Doommaster1994 (VGZ), binarymaster (ADL)
• Recorder: Doommaster1994
• Manual Credits:
  • Music & Sound Effects: Paul Mudra

(Source)

There are no credits in the game itself, but they can be found in the game's rulebook.

Game Rip

Format	Conversion	Download
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The game uses the standard ADL (Westwood) format that Westwood used in many of their games.

• ADLIB.ADL was extracted from EOBDATA1.PAK.
• PCGAMESN.SND was extracted from EOBDATA1.PAK.
• PCSOUND.SND was extracted from EOBDATA1.PAK.
• SOUND.ADL was extracted from EOBDATA4.PAK.

Since the VGZ files are sound effect free, the music should be re-recorded.

The VGZ files were logged using ValleyBell's version of DOSBox 0.74. DRO files were logged during gameplay, and hacking was used in order to stop sound effects from playing during parts of the songs where sound effects interrupt.

You can learn how to rip VGM files here.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

(Source)

Releases

USA Title: Eye of the Beholder Platform: DOS Released: 1990-06-07 Publisher: Strategic Simulations, Inc.     UK Title: Eye of the Beholder Platform: DOS Released: 1993-??-?? Publisher: Kixx

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/eye-of-the-beholder - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/564791-eye-of-the-beholder - GameFAQs.

View Eye of the Beholder
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Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon	•  •  •
Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor	•
Eye of the Beholder (2002)
Notable Songs	Character Generation
Notable Personnel	Paul Mudra • Frank Klepacki • Mason Fisher • Andrew Edlen