Oubliette Fan Page by Snafaru - for the PC and Commodore 64
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I N T R O D U C T I O N I became very interested in Oubliette when I learned from researching the internet that it was one of the games Wizardry was based on. So, there I went finding the game files and fired it up and... my gawd!!! I just couldn't believe how Wizardry-like the game was. So I dug for more information but found out there wasn't all that much out there on playing the game itself, and some of the things I found were sometimes either incomplete or needed updating. So I tasked myself to bring more information about the game as I was playing it and discovering things, which resulted in this web page with new and updated game playing information for everyone who cares to enjoy! Snafaru |
A - M O R E - THAN - I N T E R E S T I N G - P O S T Oubliette was first released on the PLATO system on November 18, 1977. It was later ported to the PC platform in 1983. The iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch version of Oubliette was release on August 26, 2010. Oubliette was one of the main inspirations for the well-known Wizardry series of computer role-playing games. If you play Oubliette and have played the Apple or IBM versions of Wizardry you will see striking ressemblances beteween them. Robert Woodhead, co-author of Wizardry, explains this in this excerpt of a post he made on the Slashdot forum on November 14th, 2001: "Both Andy and I were active on the PLATO system, which was a tremendous influence on us. PLATO had email, chat, newsgroups, multiplayer realtime game, and much more, all starting in the early 70's. The multiplayer dungeon games were particularly good. Pretty much all of the basic concepts of multiplayer gaming were developed there. Wizardry was in many ways our attempt to see if we could write a single-player game as cool as the PLATO dungeon games and cram it into a tiny machine like the Apple II." |
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Oubliette-Additional-Guide-by-Snafaru-v2.pdf Oubliette-Additional-Guide-by-Snafaru-v2.doc by Snafaru |
This is an Oubliette additional guide (includes updated spell lists), the most recent in years! Both Microsoft Word (.doc) and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) formats available. (updated July 17th, 2011) |
| This is the game disk/files for DOS. Refer to the document above for how to get the game started. | |
| Original Oubliette Instruction Manual by Human Engineered Software in Microsoft Word format. | |
| Original Oubliette Instruction Manual by Human Engineered Software in Microsoft Word format (with a few corrections and re-formatted to be printed on letter sized paper, by Snafaru). | |
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Oubliette-Character-Progression-Sheet.xls Oubliette-Character-Progression-Sheet.pdf by Snafaru |
The Oubliette Character Progression Sheet helps you track your characters' statistics, equipment and spells. The first link on the left in Microsoft Excel format for you to keep track via your computer. The other link is in Acrobat .pdf format for you to print in order to keep track by pen. |
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Oubliette-maps-levels-1-to-10-for-DOS-v2.pdf by Snafaru |
Maps of levels 1 to 10 in Adobe Acrobat format for best looks, especially when printed. |
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by ? ? ? ? |
These monster tables were re-formatted in Microsoft Excel by yours truly. I haven't found the original author of this information so I can't give credit for it. Although these tables seem to be for the Commodore 64 version of the game they can be useful for the DOS version. |
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by Peter Liska |
Oubliette Strategy Guide v.0.1 - written by Peter Liska |
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by alanquix |
An Oubliette guide by alanquix. This guide has a few inaccuracies but has good game playing comments. |
Last update of this site: July 15th, 2011. The author, Snafaru can be reached at snafaru@zimlab.com
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Oubliette Fan Page by Snafaru for the iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch
Welcome to the unofficial Oubliette fan page! - by Peter Liska
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