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MisterMoo (55 posts) Click to EMail MisterMoo Click to send private message to MisterMoo Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-02-00, 06:46 AM (Pacific)
"Wondering about an old-timer"
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.

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Llevram (5320 posts) Click to EMail Llevram Click to send private message to Llevram Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-02-00, 07:08 AM (Pacific)
1. "Nicholas .... somebody"
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

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analander (0 posts) Click to EMail analander Click to send private message to analander Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-02-00, 09:07 AM (Pacific)
2. "Apple ][ Character Editors"
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/

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MisterMoo (55 posts) Click to EMail MisterMoo Click to send private message to MisterMoo Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-03-00, 04:30 AM (Pacific)
3. "RE: Apple ][ Character Editors"
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.
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analander (0 posts) Click to EMail analander Click to send private message to analander Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-03-00, 10:40 AM (Pacific)
4. "There's always emulators"
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/

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Simon -ur (0 posts) Click to EMail Simon%20-ur Click to send private message to Simon%20-ur Click to check IP address of the poster
May-03-00, 03:25 PM (Pacific)
5. "RE: There's always emulators"
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

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Lady Adrexia (153 posts) Click to EMail Lady%20Adrexia Click to send private message to Lady%20Adrexia Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-04-00, 04:11 AM (Pacific)
6. "RE: Apple ][ Character Editors"
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.

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Snafaru (26 posts) Click to EMail Snafaru Click to send private message to Snafaru Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Aug-19-13, 07:41 PM (Pacific)
7. "RE: Apple ][ Character Editors"
Well, well, what do you know, the internet is incredible... 13 years later after this post was made a copy of Wizisystem was sent to me, this document is nearly 30 years old and someone actually had a hard copy. If you've fallen off your chair, you can get back on... I nearly did the same as I was in full shock when I got this document

Check it out on http://www.zimlab.com/wizardry/ in the 'Miscellaneous' section.

Snafaru

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Llevram (5320 posts) Click to EMail Llevram Click to send private message to Llevram Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Aug-20-13, 06:52 PM (Pacific)
8. "RE: Apple ][ Character Editors"
It always cracks me up when I read one of my old posts (like #2 in this thread) and marvel at what I used to know, and that I have absolutely no recollection of ever having written or known such things

Tools for Wizardry(r) 7

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