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Re: Daggerfall now FREE

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From: Dimensional Traveler
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:49
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Jonah Falcon wrote:
> http://www.gamestooge.com/2009/07/09/get-daggerfall-free/
> 
> For quite a few of us the introduction to Bethesda's "Elder Scrolls" 
> series was the second entry Morrowind. If you were at all curious as to 
> what came before, you can now find out for free. Bethesda is making 
> Daggerfall available as a free 150MB download.
> 
> Check it out - some love Daggerfall over Morrowind and Oblivion due to 
> the massive scope and the freedom of character generation.
> 
> Link: http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/downloads_games.htm

Actually, I believe Daggerfall was the second game in the series.  Arena 
was the first and is also available free (only 9 meg).  Note that they 
say upfront that they have to be run under something like DOSBox and 
include a guide for doing so.

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exploding room.
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