4am ❧"Wizard Replay" is almost entirely the product of @a2_qkumba's genius. (He would deny this.) Wizardry was, perhaps infamously, written in a very early version of Apple Pascal. Wizard Replay is able to virtually mount and boot these unmodified Pascal disk images under ProDOS, including patching the p-code interpreter to seamlessly "swap" virtual disk images when the game expects you to switch from the program disk to the scenario disk.
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Dungeon crawler enthusiast (Wizardry, Might and Magic) and like early cRPGs overall (Ultima, Goldbox games), also read tons of scifi, fantasy either books or comics
I am never not thinking of @rmi's reaction to an early prototype of this, which simply booted a single version of Wizardry from ProDOS with no graphical fanfare: "wait, that's impossible for at least three different reasons."
Since then, @a2_qkumba added support for two other versions of Wizardry AND integrated the WizPlus character editor, and @A2_Canada found and imaged FIVE unauthorized third-party scenarios from the 1980s that were thought to be lost, and I... made a font. And cheered.
The original Wizardry runs on a 48K Apple II. All of @a2_qkumba's code to mount, "boot," patch, and redirect low-level floppy disk access through custom routines to instead read (and write!) a disk image sitting on a ProDOS hard drive — all of that still fits in 48K. The *only* reason that Wizard Replay requires 64K is that we are using standard ProDOS APIs to trap and redirect the quit command to re-launch the graphical menu when you quit Wizardry ("Edge of town > Leave the game").
Wizard Replay lets you play "Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord," "Knight of Diamonds," and "Legacy of Llylgamyn," and several unauthorized third-party scenarios, all from the comfort of your ProDOS hard drive. It features integrated WizPlus for character editing, integrated scenario backup & restore, modern bug fixes from <https://www.zimlab.com/wizardry/proving-grounds-v3/>, and of course zero copy protection.
https://archive.org/details/WizardReplay
Thanks to @a2_qkumba for everything.
Like the recently released A Quest that Became Legend, Legendary Journeys is a blobber not bound by the grid. Doesn't look particularly interesting based on the visuals alone, but there aren't many games in that niche
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1400260/Legendary_Journeys/
