Well, not exactly a console, but it DOES appear in the top-left corner of the screen. Chances are that someone has discovered this before, so I thought I'd better ask. I was playing a bit of Daggerfall, and I must have pressed something, as suddenly http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6869/fall001rm7.png came up on my screen. It seems to display information on the active quest, including the quest file (_BRISIEN, being the quest with Lady Brisienna's letter), the player's co-ordinates (which, strangely enough, seem to be in the order X, Z, Y) as well as mentions of flags, which I believe are relevant to the numerous stages of a quest.

Anyway, does anybody know how to make this come up or how to make it go away? After saving and exiting the game, it didn't appear again on my reload. I'd really like to know how to activate this.

Thanks!

Its one of the cheat functions released in one of the last patches, look in the patch text to see a list of key commands. Its one of the later F# keys though, such as F12.

F9, it is a debug/cheat option enabled by enabling cheats. I have the cheatmode line in my config, but I set it to zero unless I get stuck somewhere. Then I save, quit, enable, and use alt+F11 after reloading to get back to the start.

Great - thanks to both of you. I might play around with it to see which 'flag' is which in various quests.

I don't think that we can change the flag states. If we could it would allow us to set the right flags in each kind of quest, allowing us to accept a quest, set the flags, talk to the quest-giver again, and get credit for it. Talk about fast progression through a guild!

Oh, I know it wouldn't be easy, but I mean that I'd get a quest, wait for one the flags to be set to 'true', save it, then have a dig around in the save files for any changes from a pre-quest save. I know it'd be tedious, but I've always desired to know the inner workings of Daggerfall quests (Dave Humphrey made significant progress, but to the best of my knowledge, it was never completed).

Yeah I have Dave on my ICQ contacts list but he hasn't been online in a few years. He was a good guy, but I guess he's doing other things now.