Die Dunkle Dimension

Please see section Additional Information as well, as it contains information about official game fixes.

Source 1

Property	Data
Title	Die Dunkle Dimension
Publisher and/or Developer	German Design Group
Year	1990
Disk(s)	3
Number of Index Holes	?
Media Type	5.25 DSDD
Retail, Budget or Compilation (with name)	Retail
Country of Release	DE
Language(s)	German
Platform	C64
NTSC or PAL	PAL
Protection	Manual Lookup
Working?	Yes
Archived	7 Dec 2013 sncboom2k
Verified by	enigma, patch level by CZ

Disk 1 Side 0
Disk 2 Side 0
Disk 3 Side 0

Purchased from: ebay

enigma:

Disk name contains the order number: G.D.G. (C5/00401)
Directory says: Version 27 May 1990.

Patch level:

- patch from Magic Disk 64 10/1989: applied, with additional comments
- patch from letter 2: applied
- patch 3 from letter 1: applied
- patch 2 from letter 1: ?
- patch 1 from letter 1: ?

Streams

File:Streams Die Dunkle Dimension G.D.G. Disk1-3 pal sncboom2k.zip

G64

File:DieDunkleDimension GDG Disk1 sncboom2k s0.g64

Disk 1 side 1 is empty.

File:DieDunkleDimension GDG Disk2 sncboom2k s0.g64

Disk 2 side 1 is empty.

File:DieDunkleDimension GDG Disk3 sncboom2k s0.g64

Disk 3 side 1 is empty.

Additional Information

Patches

Developer Letters

Since the original release of the game in 1989 the developers released two letters with instructions to patch errors in the game. Letter one refers to the original release from 1989 and letter two refers to the release published as Golden Disk 64 Sonderausgabe 5.

Patch instructions for original release from 1989

Patch instructions for release on Golden Disk 64 Sonderausgabe 5

Patch published in Magic Disk 64 10/1989

       DUNKLE DIMENSION             
          
Leider ist uns bei der MAGIC DISK Sonderausgabe " DIE DUNKLE DIMENSION" ein " kleiner" Fehler unterlaufen, und zwar führt der Rechner, zu unserem tiefsten Bedauern, ein RESET aus, sobald der Spieler ( das sind SIE!) mit dem Charakter unzufrieden ist.
Um diesen Fehler zu beseitigen, laden Sie bitte DDD. PREP.
Nun geben Sie LIST 1 ein, worauf folgende Basic-Zeile ausgegeben wird:
1 PRINT"<CLR>":POKE 53281,0:           
  POKE 53280,0:POKE 53272,18:          
  I=RND(-TI):POKE650,255:SYS 4546:     
  SYS 4096                             
Sollte diese Zeile genauso bei Ihnen erscheinen, müssen Sie nichts verändern.
Steht am Ende der Zeile nur ein " SYS 40", so korregieren Sie dies bitte.
Im Anschluß daran geben Sie im Direktmodus folgende Befehlskette ein:
OPEN 1,8,15,"S:DDD.PREP":CLOSE1        
SAVE "DDD.PREP",8                      
Geben Sie danach ein:
LOAD" DDD. TWNA",8 LIST 442 Nun erscheint folgende Zeile:
442 Z=Z+1:IF Z>600 THEN                
    PRINT"Keine <CLR>": 100            
Ersetzen Sie die Zahl 100 durch ein

              GOTO 4.                  
Im Anschluß daran müssen folgende Befehle eingegeben werden:
OPEN 1,8,15,"S:DDD.TWNA":CLOSE1        
SAVE " DDD. TWNA",8
Wir entschuldigen uns bei Ihnen für den Fehler ( nobody' s perfect, and we are only magic . . .) .

                        DIE REDAKTION

Original Release from 1989

Unknown source.

Unpatched:

Patch level:

- patch from Magic Disk 64 10/1989: missing
- patch from letter 2: missing
- patch 3 from letter 1: missing
- patch 2 from letter 1: ?
- patch 1 from letter 1: ?

File:Die Dunkle Dimension (German Design Group) (1989) (original) Disk 1.d64

File:Die Dunkle Dimension (German Design Group) (1989) (original) Disk 2.d64

File:Die Dunkle Dimension (German Design Group) (1989) (original) Disk 3.d64

Patched version:

Patch level:

- patch from Magic Disk 64 10/1989: applied
- patch from letter 2: applied
- patch 3 from letter 1: applied
- patch 2 from letter 1: ?
- patch 1 from letter 1: ?

File:Die Dunkle Dimension (German Design Group) (1989) (original) Disk 1 -repaired-.d64

File:Die Dunkle Dimension (German Design Group) (1989) (original) Disk 2 -repaired-.d64

File:Die Dunkle Dimension (German Design Group) (1989) (original) Disk 3 -repaired-.d64

Potential disk labels:

Disk 1
Disk 2
Disk 3

Cover from 1990 G.D.G. Release

Cover Front
Cover Back

Golden Disk 64 Sonderausgabe 5 Release

Source unknown.

Unpatched:

Patch level:

- patch from Magic Disk 64 10/1989: missing
- patch from letter 2: missing
- patch 3 from letter 1: missing
- patch 2 from letter 1: ?
- patch 1 from letter 1: ?

File:Golden Disk 89-05 s1.d64

File:Golden Disk 89-05 s2.d64

File:Golden Disk 89-05 s3.d64