Gold Box Engine

Several encounter mechanizations exist in the Gold Box Engine. But walk the same path where no monsters are set, and count your steps between random encounters and note the types of monsters that occur in them. Calculating can be complicated due to the possibility of multiple step counters running at once, the random chance that encounters will not appear every time the counters trigger, and that some step counters may trigger (but have a low chance of having more than 0 monsters). But you'll eventually find your steps to trigger a certain encounter are a multiple of some number (multiples of 1 if a single step triggers an encounter). Generally, the lower this number for a given type, the more encounters one can expect.

"coab" (also, "#coab") is an option to play the game native on Linux, Mac, and Windows 10 with all features implemented (including the original cheats) except for character importing (which is to buggy too call a feature). As Curse of the Azure Bonds uses the "Gold Box" engine, coab will probably allow all gold box games to play native in the future. However, there is a certain degree of unknowns as the 'Gold Box engine' Changed quite a bit over time with input from many different teams from 4 different companies.
Originally, the engine was done in 6502 Assembly code. Later versions were done in Pascal. The final games in he series where done in C/C++. Graphics run the gambit of 2 colors to 256 colors and resolutions changed greatly. Many game play features, menu/command changes, and mouse support were added.