Dungeon Master for Atari ST (Teaser demo)

In June 1986 a non-interactive Dungeon Master demo teaser disk for Atari ST was released to industry people and magazines during the summer CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Chicago. The demo is quite short and features the FTL swoosh animation, the opening of the dungeon doors, a scrolling teaser text and some movement in a dungeon with doors and pits.

Floppy Disk

Animated GIF

Matt Hill made an Animated GIF file of the Dungeon Master for Atari ST teaser demo that you can watch directly in your browser.

Screenshots

Scrolling text

Here is the complete text of the demo:

 Ah, so the Firestaff has
  called yet another band
        together....
   
 Do you know the legends,
   gentles?  Or have you
 stumbled in for destiny's
          sake?
   
For listen:
   
  A comet's tail ago, the
Dungeonmaster walked these
worlds.  A being of chaos,
 neither good nor evil, he
 ruled his kingdoms with
fearsome antics, puzzles,
 and voids, and roamed far
and wide to gather mysteries
 and treasures.  One such
 was the Firestaff Itself.
   
 The Firestaff!  Living,
 ancient thing, drawing to
  Itself a hero when It
   pleases.  Some say the
Dungeonmaster was the first
to meet Its challenge--that
 fierce Lord but a pawn in
 the destiny of the Fire-
staff, Its purpose cloaked
   in shadow.  That the
  Firestaff compelled the
  Dungeonmaster to create
these catacombs, and to lock
 up his treasure in fabled
       puzzle vaults.
   
    And that it is the
  Firestaff that bids you
  here, to test you in the
  Dungeonmaster's mazes.
That if you succeed--if you
live to gather treasure, to
  fight the horrors within
 that Chaos has sired--the
  Firestaff will make you
   more than you are now,
something new and wondrous
  so that It may use you in
  other, grander, designs.
   
  The legend pleases you?
You accept the challenge of
  the dreaded Firestaff?
   
   
   
 Then enter the vaults of
 the mighty Dungeonmaster!

Dungeon Master Teaser (Atari ST)

This archive contains the Atari ST demo (DUNGEON.PRG and DEMO.DAT) and a video of the demo as a Windows executable (Smacker).
The demo can run in an Atari ST emulator, or you can watch the video on Windows. Note that the video has no sound but since the demo only has the swoosh sound on the FTL logo, you don’t lose much.