Old changes

These are all the important changes that were made to the Tolkien computer games pages until November 9, 1998. For changes after that date, please see the page with recent changes.

All dates are in YY-MM-DD form.

• 98-11-09: A new MUD, Isildur's Bane, added; however, word also reaches me that the MUD The One Ring has closed down.
• 98-11-06: Added links to scans of ads for The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I and Riders of Rohan.
• 98-10-09: Found a later version of The Tolkien Affair.
• 98-09-22: Added a link to the new official home page of Sierra's Middle-earth.
• 98-09-17: Put up a screen-shot for The Trilogy.
• 98-09-14: Added a new freeware game: The Trilogy.
• 98-08-27: Updated the address of Mozart MUD.
• 98-08-26: Updated information about Civilization II scenarios, including adding a new one: Gondor.
• 98-08-25: Minor updates to Bryce Fitzsimon's The Hobbit.
• 98-08-19: Some links added to Middle-earth.
• 98-07-17: New cover scan for The Fellowship of the Ring Software Adventure and new beta version of Bryce Fitzsimon's The Hobbit.
• 98-07-15: New scenario for Mac version of Warlords II called Silmarillion.
• 98-05-29: Four new games: Manic Miner: The Hobbit, Belegost, The Hobbit and (most notably) the upcoming Middle-earth on-line game from Sierra On-line; updated The Lord of the Rings, Journey to Rivendell with new information.
• 98-05-18: Added a new Heroes of Might and Magic II scenario called Hobbit; added links to reviews of a couple scenarios already on the page and added a new Warlords II Deluxe scenario: Silmaril.
• 98-04-17: The author of The Lord of the Rings, Journey to Rivendell was not, as previously noted, John Stevens, but Mark Lesser; added a new Heroes of Might and Magic II scenario called Tolkien Tribute and added two Civilization II scenarios titled Tolkien and The War of the Ring.
• 98-04-12: Updated Mirkwood area information.
• 98-04-03: Added information about the theme music of the computer game version of The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I.
• 98-03-26: Added and changed some information about Angband; changed link to new version of the Civilization II scenario Dagor Bragollach; Shadowfax is now downloadable and added three new MUDs: The Burning Eye, The One Ring and The Shadow of Mordor.
• 98-02-27: Information about the title originally planned for War in Middle Earth.
• 98-01-08: Added a link to the Apple II version of The Fellowship of the Ring Software Adventure.
• 97-12-04: New version of the Civilization II scenario Dagor Bragollach.
• 97-11-18: Updated download links for C64 versions of The Boggit, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings: Game One and Shadows of Mordor.
• 97-10-27: Apparently, all versions of War in Middle Earth were translated into Spanish and there was an unreleased NES version planned for the same game.
• 97-10-12: Updated Kingdom O' Magic and Utumno; added two Warcraft II scenarios: The Lord of the Rings and RingWar; added one Civilization II scenario: Señor de los Anillos and updated information for the MUDs MUME and Beleriand.
• 97-10-02: Added a link to War in Middle Earth and updated information for Return of the Shadow, or Arda, the Fourth Age, The Lord of the Rings, Journey to Rivendell, An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold, Fuddo and Slam and Endorian Empires.
• 97-09-30: Added two new games, Lord of the Rings: The Duel and Not Lord of the Rings and one new collection, Hairy Toes.
• 97-09-08: Added a new game, Ringmaster.
• 97-09-05: New version of the Civilization II scenario Dagor Bragollach.
• 97-08-15: After a far too long period of neglect, I have made the first major clean-up of these pages since their official opening. Thanks to all of you who kept sending corrections even when nothing seemed to happen. A great many changes have been made, among which some of the more important are:
  • Added four new games: Kingdom O' Magic, Utumno, Tolkien WordSearch and Bilbo Slider Puzzle
  • All links to other gaming pages have been moved to a separate links page, which I have reason to believe is the most complete there is within that field on the net
  • New Warlords II page
  • New Warlords II Deluxe page
  • New Warcraft II page
  • New Civilization II page
  • New Heroes of Might and Magic II page
  • The Tolkien computer games FAQ has been created
  • Added three new MUDs: Lord Mud, Perthigal and Return of the Shadow, or Arda, the Fourth Age.
  • A well-needed renovation of the Eamon pages with personal evaluations, screen shots and working links (hooray!) for all games
  • Added one previously unknown game (Fuddo and Slam) and one collection (The Balrogian Trilogy) from Zenobi Software
  • Reorganised PD/Shareware page for those primarily interested in downloading
  • A lot of exciting updates to Interplay's The Lord of the Rings series, including a split of Vol. I into separate computer game and video game versions
  • New revelations about Parker Brothers' legendary The Lord of the Rings, Journey to Rivendell
  • Reinstalled the long-lost page for The Bridge of Katzad-Dum
  • Corrected the addresses for Mozart MUD and Mirkwood
  • Made a new page for rumours and news about future games
• Added cover scans for The Fellowship of the Ring Software Adventure, The Hobbit Software Adventure, The Boggit, Bored of the Rings and Moria
• 97-01-27: Updated the links of The Hobbit, Middle-earth Play-By-Mail, Shadowfax, Bored of the Rings, The Boggit and Tolkien scenario for Warlords II Deluxe.
• 97-01-23: Some new information about the Amiga version of The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers; made a link to one of the authors of that game and made a link to the music from The Hobbit Software Adventure.
• 97-01-13: Added a bunch of scenarios for strategy game Warcraft II.
• 97-01-08: The Civilization II scenario Dagor Bragollach: Battle of Sudden Flame is now up to version 3.0; cover scans added to Shadows of Mordor Software Adventure and Crack of Doom Software Adventure.
• 96-12-20: Official Delta 4 links added to Bored of the Rings and The Boggit.
• 96-12-17: Der kleine Hobbit can now be downloaded and added two screen shots for Shadows of Mordor.
• 96-12-12: Added another MUD: Sundered Realms; updated the links to the authors of Hobbit - The True Story and updated the information about the MUDs Lands of Arda and Night's Keep.
• 96-12-11: Beleriand is now open to the public.
• 96-12-01: Found out that The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings: Game One was also released for Dragon and updated links for Shadows of Mordor, Crack of Doom Software Adventure and The Boggit.
• 96-11-15: Removed Gandalf the Sorcerer, since it turned out to actually be titled Gandolf the Sorcerer and not based on Tolkien at all.
• 96-11-13: More download links from The Boggit.
• 96-11-05: New Warlords II Deluxe scenario: The Scouring of the Shire.
• 96-10-22: Download link to BBC versions of The Hobbit.
• 96-10-21: Bored of the Rings was also released for BBC.
• 96-10-16: Revived the Beleriand entry.
• 96-10-12: Updated the links from The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I, The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers and MUME.
• 96-10-08: Added a link from The Lord of the Rings MUSH.
• 96-10-01: Links to clue sheets for the games in The Middle-Earth Trilogy; added solution links to The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings: Game One / The Fellowship of the Ring Software Adventure and Shadows of Mordor and added some links to Retarded Creatures and Caverns.
• 96-09-28: Download links added to Shadows of Mordor.
• 96-09-13: Download links added to The Hobbit.
• 96-09-09: Info update and download links from El Señor de los Anillos, Parte I: La Communidad del Anillo (Libro 1).
• 96-08-29: Download links for Lord of the Rings: Game One / The Fellowship of the Ring Software Adventure (more Beam Software games to follow).
• 96-08-27: Updated the address of Mozart MUD; added a screen-shot to War in Middle Earth; updated the links section of Middle-earth Play-By-Mail and added solution link to Bored of the Rings.
• 96-08-18: Where Hobbits Dare turned out to be nothing but a rumour.
• 96-08-13: Finally got around to scanning some covers. So far I have added for Lord of the Rings: Game One, The Hobbit, The Jewels of Darkness, The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I, The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers, Shadowfax, Shadows of Mordor, The Tolkien Trilogy and War in Middle Earth; many links have also been updated from those games and The Hobbit has gone through a major update with much new information; Reactor MUD now has its correct type definition and updated the information for The Lord of the Rings, Vol. III.
• 96-08-02: Two more games (or rather add-ons to existing games): Dagor Bragollach which is a scenario for Civilization II and a Mah Jongg tile set called Lord of the Rings and added information about the VGA/MCGA version of War in Middle Earth.
• 96-07-29: Updated the entry for Moria and added a new game, Reactor MUD.
• 96-07-17: Updated information about the never-released The Lord of the Rings, Journey to Rivendell.
• 96-07-14: New information about current maintainer and official WWW page for The Dungeons of Moria; Elendor Refugee MUX has been closed for good; added information about an unofficial MVS version of The Hobbit and put up another screen shot for that same game.
• 96-06-24: Updated Xconq (Middle Earth).
• 96-06-18: Added Endorian Empires; removed Smaugs Lair; updated the links of Viking MUD and added one link to Genesis.
• 96-06-13: Corrected the distributor of The Tolkien Trilogy.
• 96-06-11: Several new screen-shots for War in Middle Earth; updated links from the Interplay games The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I and The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers, including links to demo versions and a solution for Vol. I Super NES version, and added a link to the French version of CHAOS Productions' Seigneur de la Bague vol. 1.
• 96-06-06: Lord of the Rings: Game One was also released for Amstrad PCW; updated links and version info for MUME.
• 96-06-04: Corrected the link to The Tolkien Affair; added the French title of Lord of the Rings vol. 1 and updated NannyMUD.
• 96-06-03: Added much information about Middle-earth Play-By-Mail versions in other languages than English, including a new Dutch version in the works.
• 96-05-28: Linked to a review of Conquest of M.E. and added two new games from CHAOS Productions: Lord of the Rings vol. 1 and Lord of the Rings vol. 2.
• 96-05-24: Put a link to Beam Software and a picture of Philip Mitchell from The Hobbit and other games; added two more Warlords II Deluxe scenarios: Gondor and Tolkien.
• 96-05-12: Added information about authors and some history on The Dungeons of Moria; added author information for Morgul and The Pits of Angband and added one game to the list of games which make references to The Hobbit.
• 96-05-07: Confirmed the opening year of Nemesis.
• 96-05-03: Removed Abyss; added Magellan review links to The Two Towers and Elendor; added a link to another solution of The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I and added another Warlords II scenario with the title Middle Earth.
• 96-04-27: Updated the information on 'El Señor de los Anillos', parte 1, La Communidad del Anillo (Libro 1) and added a link to Angband.
• 96-04-26: Added links to reviews of Genesis and NannyMUD.
• 96-04-17: The Two Towers is now officially open.
• 96-04-15: Corrected links for The Two Towers, which have changed.
• 96-04-04: Corrected a changed link to the Oric-1 version of The Hobbit.
• 96-04-02: Removed Beleriand, on request of its management; added official WWW site for Middle-earth Play-By-Mail and added several Warlords II scenarios.
• 96-03-25: Added two MUDs, Beleriand and Lands of Arda and removed Cracks of Doom (not Crack of Doom Software Adventure, mind you), which is the first game to have been removed since the official opening of the pages.
• 96-03-17: A minor change to Angmar's setting; added the Elendor Refugee MUX and added screen shots to Bulbo and the Lizard-king and Dungeon Adventure.
• 96-03-12: Added the MUD Angmar; added links to emulator versions of Assault on Dolni Keep and added a link to a review of The Hobbit.
• 96-03-07: Corrected a link to Retarded Creatures and Caverns' solution and added a MUD link to Diku MUD.
• 96-03-06: Added links to The MUD Connector entries for Aurora, Carrion Fields, Eodon, Genesis, Mirkwood, Mozart MUD, MUME, NannyMUD, RealmsMUD and The Two Towers.
• 96-02-22: Minor update to MEFA Mush; added information about a CD-ROM demo version of The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I and added information about on-line purchasing of that game and The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers.
• 96-02-19: Added a new link to The Pits of Angband; info about The Hobbit's position in Sinclair User's Spectrum Classics; added a new game (or at least an area for a type of game), Diku MUD (The Shire); added author and year information to quiz and, for uniformity's sake, changed the title of that game to quiz (mearth) and that of Tolkien's Middle Earth to Xconq (Middle Earth); corrected the link to Genesis' home page and corrected the publisher/producer information for Gandalf the Sorcerer.
• 96-01-30: Updated the address for Mozart MUD; added a new MUD, Carrion Fields; added some info for Bulbo and the Lizard King and changed much of the information for Sagan om ringen.
• 96-01-14: Added a new game for the North Star Horizon, Middle Earth; The Middle-Earth Trilogy was also called Colossal Trilogy; added links for a solution to Colossal Adventure and a review of Dungeon Adventure; new version of The Pits of Angband along with link to a new official Web page and some other information; also removed the apparently non-working play-the-game links from that game and The Dungeons of Moria; added links to the most recent versions of all the Eamon games; Abyss is back up; added a new MUD, Eodon; made some changes to The Lord of the Rings MUSH and added its planned successor, The Lord of the Rings MUSH II.
• 95-12-20: Yet another link from The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I; changed the title (and many other facts) of An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold to The Seeker of Lost Gold and added two successors to that game: Bulbo and the Lizard King and Retarded Creatures and Caverns.
• 95-12-18: New link from The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I.
• 95-12-15: Changed author information and some links for The Pits of Angband; added a link to a solution of Lord of the Rings: Game One; minor changes to Middle-earth: The Riddles; Emulate! links updated from Shadows of Mordor and War in Middle Earth and added links to two of the companies that made Riders of Rohan.
• 95-12-05: Minor changes to the Interplay games The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I, The Lord of the Rings, Vol. III and The Lord of the Rings & The Two Towers; corrected a link to a solution for The Hobbit; moved the solutions link from The Jewels of Darkness to the individual games; added a cheats link for Lord of the Rings: Game One and a hints link for Shadows of Mordor; added another link to The Pits of Angband and the real name of the author of Tolkien Trivia.
• 95-11-24: Added a new game, Middle-earth: The Riddles; again changed the Spectrum Games Database entry for The Hobbit; added a link to one of the servers for MUME.
• 95-11-20: Tolkien Trilogy's release year confirmed; screen shots added for Crack of Doom Software Adventure and The Ring of Doom, links to solutions for The Jewels of Darkness games, The Hobbit and The Boggit.
• 95-11-08: A new Net resource added to The Boggit; deleted Goblins Dungeon solution link and changed Spectrum Games Database link from The Hobbit; added info about the languages and various licensees for Middle-Earth Play-By-Mail and (finally) added information about the new version of Tolkien's Middle Earth.
• 95-11-01: The grand official opening of the pages. Welcome!

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