Black Cauldron for PC DOS

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The game starts at once, without asking for the original disk, and after the credits Taran stands outside Dallben's cottage. There is no typing, function keys do everything.

Controls: arrows walk (one press starts, the next stops), F6 does whatever can be done on the spot, F8 looks, F3 inventory, Enter closes a message, Esc menu (save F5, restore F7), F1 help.

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Black Cauldron

Online version of Black Cauldron for PC DOS. The Black Cauldron is a graphic adventure based on the Walt Disney animated film and Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain books, designed by Al Lowe and Roberta Williams and released by Sierra On-Line in 1986 on its AGI engine. The player is Taran, a young Assistant Pig-Keeper at Caer Dallben, whose pig Hen Wen turns out to have magical powers that the evil Horned King wants for himself. Unlike King's Quest it needs no typing at all: a few function keys or a joystick do everything, and problems have more than one solution and the story more than one ending...

Game details

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The Black Cauldron logo with Sierra copyright notice

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Taran outside Dallben's thatched cottage

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Taran by a stream in the forest

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File menu with Save, Restore, Restart and Quit

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Narrator warns that the forest to the west is dark and frightening

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Taran by the hollow tree, narrator praises the forest

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Taran by a thatched hut and stone wall

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Narration about the Horned King searching for Hen Wen

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Inside Dallben's house

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Taran and Hen Wen in a glade with hanging vines

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Gwythaint swooping down on the vine glade

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Gwythaint flying away across the night sky

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Taran in a blue-tree clearing with the Gwythaint overhead

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Taran alone in the blue-tree clearing

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Taran at a pond with stepping stones

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Released in

1986

Publisher

Sierra On‑Line, Inc.

Developer

Sierra On‑Line, Inc.

Platforms

Apple II, Atari ST, PC Booter, PC DOS (1986), Apple IIgs, Amiga (1987)

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Black Cauldron is currently playable only in version for PC DOS.

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IBM PC with MS-DOS

Online emulated version of Black Cauldron was originally developed for the IBM PC and compatible computers, with MS DOS - Microsoft Disk Operating System. It is an OS for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft and released in 1981 as PC DOS 1.0.
MS-DOS was targeted at Intel 8086 processors running on computer hardware using floppy disks to store and access not only the operating system, but application software and user data as well. Progressive version releases delivered support for other mass storage media in ever greater sizes and formats, along with added feature support for newer processors and rapidly evolving computer architectures. Ultimately, it was the key product in Microsoft's development from a programming language company to a diverse software development firm, providing the company with essential revenue and marketing resources. It was also the underlying basic operating system on which early versions of Windows ran as a GUI.