very old game

[Kevin (Boricua_Kevin)]

LONG BEFORE, 1990, I PLAYED THIS GAME, ON AN OLD IBM COMPUTER..THE GRAPHICS 'THEN' WERE JUST LINES----

[Abscondrel]

they kept the lines. you can see them whenever you like.

[Wizardsmana]

Played on my Apple II back in 1981 when it first came out. Glad they kept the original version to see and even enlarge...oh the memories!

[ChubbiChibbai]

I cant even imagine how to play with just the lines. I took a look at a version that runs from a website and i'ts mind blowing how people were able to navigate at all. It must have been so much more difficult (it's already difficult enough with the newer visuals)

[Ninth Hour]

Originally posted by ChubbiChibbai:

I cant even imagine how to play with just the lines. I took a look at a version that runs from a website and i'ts mind blowing how people were able to navigate at all. It must have been so much more difficult (it's already difficult enough with the newer visuals)

Yes, the look was already dated by the time I played it in 1986, as that was when Bards Tale 2 and Might and Magic came out. Both of those games had actual graphics for dungeons. Might and Magic, for the Apple II, featured monochrome brick walls, at least for the first level.

Even so, that was an improvement over the wireframe dungeons of Wizardry 1 to 3.

[Wizardsmana]

I remember pulling out the graph paper and comparing maps with my dad. My friends and I all had passwords for our characters so no one else could use them and get them killed. The only fail safe for a battle going wrong was to pull the power cord from the wall and hope your characters rebooted ok. Many days after school I looked forward to playing with friends while taking turns watching each other's parties explore the mazes. I remember the 1st time I got the malor spell with my mage and accidentally made my negative coordinate a positive and teleported my top party into solid rock, lost forever!
Such good nostalgic moments...I wish I still had my original floppy disk working with my Apple IIe...

[Ninth Hour]

Originally posted by Wizardsmana:

Such good nostalgic moments...I wish I still had my original floppy disk working with my Apple IIe...

The Apple IIe my family acquired in 1984 was my first ever computer. it survived until 1987 when, in a boneheaded move, I plugged it into the wrong voltage socket. I recall getting pretty far into Wasteland when, suddenly, the computer short circuited. And that was the end of the machine and my Wasteland run.

I would not be until 10 years later that I finally completed that game, via an Apple II emulator (AppleWin, which I highly recommend for those looking for a retro experience). If I recall correctly, Applewin had virtual disk drives and virtual floppies (.dsk or .nib files) that you could load into said drives. You even got a loading sound when doing so, somewhat reminiscent of the clicks and whirs of an actual physical drive.

In fact, I was still playing emulated Apple II games as recently as 10 years ago.

My experience with AppleWin led to an enthusiasm for emulators in general, which is how I recently played the SNES version of Wizardry (the program I used was ZNES).

[Kevin (Boricua_Kevin)]

Originally posted by Wizardsmana:

Played on my Apple II back in 1981 when it first came out. Glad they kept the original version to see and even enlarge...oh the memories!

I too have the original game on 5 point 25 disk but I played the game on ibm pc

[kev]

Graphics were really irrelevant back then.

We had imagination.

[Ninth Hour]

Originally posted by kev:

Graphics were really irrelevant back then.

We had imagination.

To be fair, it's not like we had a choice.

[vichande]

Originally posted by Ninth Hour:

Originally posted by kev:

Graphics were really irrelevant back then.

We had imagination.

To be fair, it's not like we had a choice.

Sure we did, that's why arcade cabinets were still the ♥♥♥♥ through the 90s. Nothing like the Gauntlet cabinet, Golden Axe, Smash TV, TMNT, list goes on.