Gold Box game manual control

jsabotin · Post by **jsabotin** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:42 pm

I've been reliving my youth replaying the SSI AD&D Goldbox games (Pools of Radiance series).

Unfortunately, during a battle, I accidentally hit the Q button, causing my little character to turn on Quick mode. Now, in battle, he operates on AI, and sadly, he is my cleric, and thus will never heal.

The game manual says the way to turn off the Quick Command and restore manual control to a character is to consult the Quick Start Card.

Unfortunately, I do not have the Quick Start card, and absolutely no documentation on the web has it either. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to restore manual control.

Do any of you know the means to restore control? Or have a Quick Card you could share info from?

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:45 pm

Many of these games had a similar file that would install with the game, usually a .ini file, or something similar. It would allow you to personally remap command keys and functions. Perhaps the Gold box includes something like this.

kmonster · Post by **kmonster** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:19 am

If I remember it correctly, hitting the space bar (or was it another key ? Q ?) at the right moment (while he is in action) should disable the quickmode at the next turn.

asdfjklsemi · Post by **asdfjklsemi** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:09 pm

Believe it or not, I still have a mint condition "data card" for this game.

It is indeed the space bar that shuts off the "quick" mode.

For the record, here's some of the other info on the card:

Left Arrow: is identical to the EXIT command from menus. In combat, pressing this key will take back a move, but will not erase any damage taken during the move.

Q: sets all characters to QUICK (computer control).

Space: Returns all character to normal control from QUICK.

M: Toggles magic on/off for characters set to QUICK.