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--- blog:pc98_game_chilam_balam [2019/06/07 08:28] – john
+++ blog:pc98_game_chilam_balam [2019/07/23 19:36] (current) – [Disk Information] john
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-  * Genre: RPG
+  * Genre: RPG (Western / Horror)
   * Date: 1992
   * Company: Right Stuff
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 ===== Notes =====
+Chilam Balam is a western/horror/fantasy RPG - set in the old west with cowboys, but then starts to get involved with Mayan mythology and the supernatural.
+Quite a unique setting, I can't think of anything else like it.
+Chilam Balam is actually the name of several real-life collections of documents on Mayan spirits and spirituality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilam_Balam
+===== Additional Images =====
+{{:blog:chilam1.png?640|}}
+{{:blog:03821.jpg?385|}}
+{{:blog:03820.jpg?385|}}
+===== Disk Information =====
+  * Disks: 8x 1.2MB (as archive ''Libros de Chilam Balam [FD].zip'')
+<code>
+  Length      Date    Time    Name
+---------  ---------- -----   ----
+  1261568  1996-12-24 23:32   alts/Libros de Chilam Balam (Disk B) [Alt 1].hdm
+  1261568  1996-12-24 23:32   alts/Libros de Chilam Balam (Disk F) [Alt 1].hdm
+  1261568  1996-12-24 23:32   Libros de Chilam Balam (Disk A).hdm
+  1261568  1996-12-24 23:32   Libros de Chilam Balam (Disk B).hdm
+  1261568  1996-12-24 23:32   Libros de Chilam Balam (Disk C).hdm
+  1261568  1996-12-24 23:32   Libros de Chilam Balam (Disk D).hdm
+  1261568  1996-12-24 23:32   Libros de Chilam Balam (Disk E).hdm
+  1261568  1996-12-24 23:32   Libros de Chilam Balam (Disk F).hdm
+---------                     -------
+ 10092544                     8 files
+</code>
+=== HDD Install Process ===
+The floppy images appear to //not// be DOS floppy images, so when you insert one from a running DOS prompt (either emulator or real hardware) there's nothing visible on the disk. You can boot from floppy disk A and the game will start, so they work; looks like the type raw floppy that was common in the Amiga world. That probably means it can't be installed by regular methods.
+=== Installed Files ===
+Not available; disks are custom filesystem and only run from floppy drive.
+===== Running the Game =====
+**From floppy**: Just insert disk A and power on the computer / emulator, the game starts automatically. It //cannot// be started from DOS.