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One of my favorite games appeared on Apple before the Mac, Wizardry. I even got it on the PC; complete with ASCII 3D hallways that worked just fine. I remember
by Shivetya 10y ago
One of my favorite games appeared on Apple before the Mac, Wizardry. I even got it on the PC; complete with ASCII 3D hallways that worked just fine. I remember days of Norton Disk Doctor and similar all trying to hack out character data and writing basic programs to do it. I later became even more fascinated with the games after finding out it was written in Pascal (what fun it would be to have that source)
back on track, Mac games never entered my reality after the PC came about for many reasons. One was I had ready access to PCs because my parents were in IBM, but mostly because it just wasn't on anyone's local RADAR. Plus by then the PC clones brought pricing to the point that a Mac looked like a luxury.
and finally the games market on the PC was just so rich with great variety with early BBS providing easy access to many free games or the like
- dmolony 10y agoThe (unofficial) Wizardry source is available. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.sys.apple2/wizardry/comp.sys.apple2/2oDJTbQaJWU/Vge7HkIcYYwJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.sys.apple2/w...
- Shivetya 10y agoThank you! I spent sometime reading that link and blundered into a book I haven't seen in thirty years, Randall Hyde's P-Source (Apple Pascal). Followed the rest into Wizardry 1 and just reading Tommy's work in reconstructing it was amazing
- fzzzy 10y agoI'm pretty interested in this, but it seems the ftp links might be broken? Does anyone have a backup of this?
- fzzzy 10y agoWhoops, never mind, the link does work: ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/rpg/wizardry/wizardry_III/Wizardry_iii_SourceCode.zip
- sunkencity 10y agowow, wizardry. it was my favourite game with the dark castle series coming in second. Proving grounds of the mad overlord. I still have it on my SE/30 and on disks. Never did play any of the follow ups.