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1. #APPLEWIN WIZARDRY MOD#
2. #APPLEWIN WIZARDRY MANUAL#
3. #APPLEWIN WIZARDRY MODS#
4. #APPLEWIN WIZARDRY SOFTWARE#
5. #APPLEWIN WIZARDRY PC#

#APPLEWIN WIZARDRY MOD#

I have yet to find any decent cursed gear, normal items from mod are way better. even though I did some mistakes like picking Lord for Bloodlust sword (when you can get better stuff in shops and drops, also berserking is optional for Fighter, which become default when you develop your combat skill high enough) and taking Bishop instead of dedicated caster. So far it's not so hard, in fact it's quite opposite. I've picked White Wolf mod because it's sounds bit (t)witcher-y, huh.

#APPLEWIN WIZARDRY MODS#

Thanks for the list from there I've learned more about mods for Wiz8, more that you could learn from their readme files or websites dedicated to the saga. So why is the backup option never mentioned anywhere ?

#APPLEWIN WIZARDRY MANUAL#

If you get wiped out in Wizardry II, you are not forced to go back to Wiz I to make new level-13 characters, you just use your backup disk where your precious Werdna-victorious-team is stored.Īm I missing something here ? I've read the Apple II manual and it never states you should play the game in ironman style. So it is not at all comparable to quicksaving/quickloading, but it does exist and you can totally use it once per hour to ensure that that hideous cemetery screen won't make you lose hours and hours of progress.Īnd it makes the necessity to import high characters in the second game much more logical. It is an impractical affair, as you must exit the game, flip the disk once or twice, and then recruit your characters again at the Inn (and on original hardware the slow disk drive would have make the process even slower). You can backup your entire roster when you are in town. Why is everyone acting as if the (B)ackup option doesn't exist ?Įveryone is acting like the game has permadeath and no way of saving progress, but it is not entirely true. The only thing missing is the tell tale sound of that Apple disk drive booting…īEEP!SHNICKrattatatatatatatataboosh…thuckthuckthuckthuckthuck.I have a big question about the Wizardry series (and yes I created an account just for it), and more precisely the first game :

#APPLEWIN WIZARDRY SOFTWARE#

I finally sort of got my Quadlink… but in a software format with AppleWin. The problem was the expansion card was $680 and I couldn’t afford it because it’s primary target was business looking to move from the Apple II to the IBM PC. You’d hit a ctrl-key and it’d literally BOOT an Apple computer on your IBM. Here are some repositories & archives for old Apple II software kept for historical purposes (and let geeks like us swoon in reflection), including Apple DOS and ProDOS and all kinds of fun games & tools like Night Mission Pinball, Bank Street Writer, Visicalc, and Locksmith 5.0.īack around 1984, I longed for something called the Quadram Quadlink, which was essentially an Apple II+ on a 16-bit ISA slot card for an IBM PC. And yes, hitting 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2… makes the dude go every bit as fast as it did when you used to hammer on the keyboard with your siblings. Here are some snapshots of the game as I played it. And it plays like a champ in the AppleWin emulator. I played the game on my Windows 7 圆4 machine after having not touched Olympic Decathlon for more than probably 30 years. Here’s a snap shot of the boot up screen for “ Microsoft Consumer Product’s Olympic Decathlon”: What does this have to do with Microsoft, you ask? Well, I don’t know if you remember but Olympic Decathlon was a Microsoft product. I ran the ol’ AppleVision demo on the DOS 3.3 disk and had a thrill looking at something I hadn’t seen since the 6th grade. It’s in its 1.20 revision today and still working like a champ.

#APPLEWIN WIZARDRY PC#

So I looked into my stash of software on my PC (which I’ve kept for years on my hard drive in a single directory), and I dug up Tom Charlesworth’s “AppleWin”, the renown Apple II emulator for Windows. SirTech’s Wizardry, Electronic Art’s Archon, Accolade’s Hardball, and who could forget Broderbund’s Lode Runner? My favorite game however was, and remains, “Olympic Decathlon”, because of all the good memories my friends and I had playing it “multiplayer”. (Hey, they were expensive for a 10 year old) I punched a notch on the other side to use the flip side of the disk and stored everything I’d ever gotten on it. I’d carry my one 5 1/4” Verbatim DS/DD floppy disk.

(I lived in Apple’s backyard so it’s not that surprising) Some had the II+ & later the IIe, but it was always the Apple. And of course the computer everyone had was the Apple II.

So I’d go over to their houses and use theirs for hours. Other kids I knew had computers that their fathers owned & meanwhile, I didn’t even have a handheld Mattel Football game. When I was growing up, I didn’t have much money. The other day, I saw something at E3 (the Video Game History Museum) that made me think about what computing was like when I was kid.