UNOFFICIAL
AMULETS & ARMOR SHRINE



THIS SITE IS RATHER DEPRECATED. I'LL SUGGEST YOU TO HEAD ON OVER TO THE OFFICIAL SITE
AmuletsAndArmor.com


el_zee runs a fan forum that also features editing. You can go there!
Ancient DOS Games did a video review of the shareware version. You can watch it here!

The Can article about its early demise




Amulets & Armor was developed by United Software Artists.  It deserves alot better.

You can download the demo here:
Old v1.0 demo
Newer v1.2 demo
6MB (buggy -for historical reasons only!)
MIDI Music version - 8MB

PCM Music version - 22MB (Recommended)






Random Stuff:


Editing:
RES
eXtendable Wad Editor can view textures (rotated 90 degrees), sounds and text lumps from the RES files.
It is not possible to make new RES files or edit them. Yet.

MAP
Doom Builder can work, but have fun guessing the textures and things.

There is bare, incomplete and possibly broken preliminary support for Amulets & Armor in Oblige 4.x (Random level generator).

Random, possibly speculative stuff below this line (Kept out of historical interest)


Trivia:
Fun possibly unverified facts:
DeeP was used as the map editor - there's DeeP headers in the .map files (which are actually small PWADs)
Yamaha OPL2/3 can't play back the entire polyphony of some songs causing them to sound very funny and empty.
Although "death-match play" is in the feature list, there is no DM rules with a scoreboard and monster removal.
BUG: v1.0 had character saving before level ended, so if you died and lost your items, then quit, congratulations : you lost your items! There is also a potential exploit for grabbing stuff then selling them without completing the level (such as the map ring in the first level of the v1.0 demo, you can easily rack up your way to 25p to buy the Vindicator in just a few minutes)
You can still move around with your mouse when you're dead (as a running, jumping corpse that can't open doors)

Stuff that was cut from the game (
totally unverified and theoried):
Housing system
Elk (Food spawned out when dead. Eat that, PETA)
Wolf
Banshee (Used - spawns during night time on a certain map)
Innocent civilians (crashes now)
Shields that can be equipped
Amulets being purchasable from the bank (now just only rings)
Lots of amulets & rings that never made it into the final levels
Hidden dance/rock music meant as an easter egg, but never implemented
Weird login screen MIDI song, only exists in demo v1.0.

Stuff lost forever:
Hard copies of game (no one has one as far as I know and no store sells it legitimately)
Hope for a legal release......?


Amulets & Armor is (C)1995-1997 United Software Artists and we don't claim any copyright of the official content here. It's their game. It ain't public domain.

Site not w3c compliant