Typical shop in Daggerfall.  Shops that sell Daggerfall, however, have been absent for quite some time.  Luckily, you can now download it for free.

The greatest computer role playing game ever made, if we ignore the primitive graphics at least, is now released on Bethsoft’s Elder Scrolls download Page. There is also a link to DOSBOX, a program that will run old MS-DOS games in Windows (or Linux, supposedly even Mac).

This means nobody needs to mail me and ask for a copy of Daggerfall anymore because they let someone borrow the disk and never got it back or the toddler broke it or they could not find it on Ebay.

I have written extensively about Daggerfall during my first years of the Chaos Node: The game was my constant companion from some time before this and until I no longer had any computers old enough to play it.  Then I wrote about it again in January when DOSBox finally could run it in the official version.  (There were tweaks to do it before, but I never got it to work then.)

I know that to a number of people I am “Mr Daggerfall”, not least here in Norway where my reviews in Databladet were laying the groundwork for the popularity of the Elder Scrolls series here.  Unfortunately Databladet went the way of all flesh, and we who worked for it drifted apart.  This also largely happened to alt.games.daggerfall eventually, the Usenet group where I made a number of interesting friends. Good times were had by all, as we gathered to swap tales of our exploits.

None of these things will come back, this is the nature of time and the world.  But at least it is now possible for anyone who wants, to play the game for free.