Knobelkiste (DOS)
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Knobelkiste (German for puzzling box) is a collection of four games:
- Towers consists of an 8×8 grid where always one row is being highlighted. Each turn, you click one of the highlighted items: If it's bricks or bombs, you win or lose points, the highlights spin 90° around your item, and the computer takes turn. By clicking a crown, you forfeit one turn. You must reach 20 points first.
- Staples consists of a grid with tiles, and a panel of all existing icons in three pairs. Your ultimate goal is to remove all tiles: You first click an icon on the panel, and then every tile that shows the opposite icon. Except: If any nearby tile shows an icon from the same pair, you instead lose one of four lives. To prevent that, you click another icon and then a tile you want to change. However, you cannot click such tiles again until all remaining tiles are changed as well.
- Diamonds: Your mole must dig all diamonds up and avoid four invisible granite blocks. The top right panel shows a granite radar. You can save and load your game by pressing Alt+S and Alt+L.
- Ghosthunt: Your frog must leap into a specified number of keys and a red door. Each turn, three different types of ghosts creep towards you. Almost every level, you get a password that includes your score.
The game has no credits, but resembles Cannonade (DOS) in every way. Artist Michael Hoffmann listed both games on his archived website. Both installers mention a company named Moonlight.
Two competing German PC magazines gave the same overall rating, namely 39%. Both lamented that Towers has no two-player mode, but found the price of 39.80 DM fair.
Contents
Screenshots
Music
Each game has its own theme: medieval, disco, cartoony, mystic.
Staples and Ghosthunt toggle their in-game track every round. Diamonds cycles through five tracks every loop, and when you toggle music off and on again, the track is chosen randomly (possibly a bug).
PC Joker rated the sound 32%–55%, PC Player gave a D.
Recording
Professor Chaos is planning to record all songs from a Pentium 60 MHz with a Sound Blaster 16 CT1740. The durations and loop counts are estimates and will be updated after recording.
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The VGMPF currently titles these songs after their usage. The below table reflects a confusing trait of the games: They internally have their in-game tracks numbered, but play their respective In-Game 2 first and In-Game 1 last.
Credits
- Ripper: Professor Chaos
- Recorder: Professor Chaos (planning)
- Game Credits:
- Not Credited Composer: Unknown
- Not Credited Arranger: Unknown
- Not Credited Foley Artist: Unknown
- Not Credited Programmer: Norbert Schmidt
(Sources: comparison with Captain Zins (DOS). Game lacks credits. The manual has not been found.)
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Audio Devices
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On most screens, you can toggle music and sound by pressing F9 and F10 respectively. When you start a program, everything is on.
DOSBox 0.74 does not play sound effects correctly: They are mute on the PC Speaker, raspy on Sound Blaster, and tuneless on Speech Thing. An Ad Lib Music Synthesizer Card sound driver is included, but never used.
(Source: PSMCFG.EXE.)
Releases
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Links
- Games Released In 1992
- Games Developed By Moonlight
- No Amazon
- Games
- Knobelkiste (DOS)
- Incomplete Recordings
- Pages with broken file links
- Games By Unknown
- Games By Norbert Schmidt
- Missing Source
- Games Without Credits
- Games That Use PMA
- Games That Use ESP
- Games That Use AdLib For Music
- Games That Use PC-Soundman For Music
- Games That Use PC Speaker For Sound
- Games That Use Sound Blaster For Sound
- Games That Use Speech Thing For Sound
- Games That Use PC-Soundman For Sound
- Games Released In Germany
- DOS Games
- Games Published By Data Becker
