Okay, this is a question only for those of you who remember Fi-fi-fi-pa-pa-parry from Wiz 1, when it was new and soooooo cool. (I bought mine the day I bought my Apple ]<+)[P>There was a guy in Atlanta, I think, who was the early 80s version of Rick Rice. He had a garage business selling Wizardry maps and stuff. Advertised in SoftDisk (the magazine on a disk!) and Softalk magazine and such. I was just wondering if anyone else remembers him or knows if he's still around. He helped me a lot.

Nostalgia aint what it used to be.

• Nicholas .... somebody,Llevram, 07:08 AM, May-02-00
• Apple ][ Character Editors,analander, 09:07 AM, May-02-00
  • RE: Apple ][ Character Editors,MisterMoo, 04:30 AM, May-03-00
    • There's always emulators,analander, 10:40 AM, May-03-00
      • RE: There's always emulators,Simon -ur, 03:25 PM, May-03-00
    • RE: Apple ][ Character Editors,Lady Adrexia, 04:11 AM, May-04-00
      • RE: Apple ][ Character Editors,Snafaru, 07:41 PM, Aug-19-13
        • RE: Apple ][ Character Editors,Llevram, 06:52 PM, Aug-20-13

I think the guy you are talking about (this sounds really familiar) is the author of the Wizi-system, or something like that. I probably have an old email laying around somewhere that has his full name.

I remember reading a message a long time ago, on skullrag's board about a guy who picked up a copy of the stuff, but it was minus the disks, I think.

The publisher of this Wizi-system is no longer around, if that helps

Tools for your Wizardry(r) toolkit

Hello,

In the 80s I dealt with a guy working out of his home - I think it was in New England though - who made character editors for Wizardry. The disks also came with maps and walkthroughs (which I no longer have ). I remember having to call him because my Dragon Wars editor didn't work right away on my new IIGS becuase it was under the new 3.5 drive letter, and not the standard 5.25...

whereas iMacs today have no SCSI no floppy no zip...

Man I feel old.

- John
http://www.tk421.net/wizardry/

How's this for weird... after starting this thread I got nostalgic, so I got out the Apple ]<+ (hmmm, this is formatting weird... how about II+), found the floppies, and booted up Wizardry 1. Amazingly, both the computer and the floppies still work (keyboard stutters a little, but that seemed to get better with use). More amazingly, my 14 year old son, who has played about half of WizGold, spent 3 hours building a party! On a 20 year old game![BR>I had forgotten how much more cumbersome the Apple version was than the PC (archives) version is. For instance, to gather your party you have to type their name -- no picking from a list. On the other hand, the super-bishop cheat works. hee hee.

Not that they're legal or anything (although cool for making screenshots like below), but if you're aching for one more game of Dr. J. vs. Larry Byrd One-on-one, Spyhunter, Tai-Pan, etc.:

http://pages.ripco.net/~wizwom/applewin/
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/

There's also SNES emulators too I believe.

- John
http://www.tk421.net/wizardry/

Yeah, the emulation scene is doing a lot of work these days. You can easily find emulators for any system from old computers to the newest consoles or arcade machines too. Nes, SNES, N64, SEGA machines, NeoGeo to name a few. Any search engine would get you started though findind good ones might prove difficult. Finally roms a most readily available on newsgroups like alt.binaries.emulators.*
Generally, if you don't own the game it's illegal to get a rom copy of it.

Simon

LAST EDITED ON May-04-00 AT 04:14 AM (Pacific)

I have the first 5 Wizardry's on 5.25 for the Apple II C, and they still work GREAT!

But back to the previous message, I have a few Wiz-cheat disks one is called WizEdit, but it accidentally got deleted. It had the ability to read the map, treasure, etc. codes off the first two scenarios. I miss it the most.

Next is WizPlus. This is for characters only. This is the best cheat program I have. You can change the stats, re-age, use the codes and get stuff. It is my favorite...and Rick's WizEdit runs the same way.

I have a few more called WizMaker and WizFix, they are in reality, just like WizPlus. My husband got them with Wizardry I. A fellow soldier had two copies of WizI and all the cheat programs, and she gave it to him. He never really liked them, but I did.

Never found out who wrote the cheat programs, but most of them were produced by a company called DataMost. I hope that helps.