The Fellowship of the Ring for PC DOS

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The Fellowship of the Ring

Online version of The Fellowship of the Ring for PC DOS. The Fellowship of the Ring is an illustrated text adventure based on the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, built in 1985 by the Australian studio Beam Software for the publisher Melbourne House. In Europe it was sold as Lord of the Rings: Game One, and it is the follow-up to the same studio's earlier The Hobbit. The player leads Frodo and his companions from the Shire through the Old Forest, Bree and Rivendell to the banks of the Anduin, giving orders to the party and in places taking the part of another character outright. The game loads as two separate halves, understands a vocabulary of some 800 words, and shipped with the complete paperback of the novel in the box.

Game details

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Title screen (CGA palette 1)

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Title screen (CGA palette 0)

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Choosing which hobbits to play (40 columns)

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Opening text in 80 column mode

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Typing a command at the 80 column prompt

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Frodo's burrow (CGA palette 1)

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Frodo's burrow (CGA palette 0)

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Opening the green door out to the garden

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The sunny well-tended garden

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Released in

1985

Publisher

Melbourne House

Developer

Beam Software

Platforms

Amstrad CPC, Apple II, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, PC DOS, ZX Spectrum (1985), Macintosh (1987)

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IBM PC with MS-DOS

Online emulated version of The Fellowship of the Ring 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.