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sowbug on July 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: 1970s mainframe RPGs we can no longer play

This article is the closest I'll ever come to posting this story on topic. Back in 1983 I was given a copy of a Wizardry prototype written in Applesoft BASIC. I don't know whether it was real, but it was a huge program and very detailed. Floppy disks were expensive, and I was already into the real Pascal-based Wizardry, so I foolishly deleted it a few weeks later.

Was this real? Does a copy still exist anywhere in the world? Andrew or Robert, are you out there?

ksaj on July 1, 2021 [–]

According to wikipedia, it was probably real.

"It was initially coded in Applesoft BASIC, but Greenberg and Woodhead rewrote it in UCSD Pascal after BASIC proved too slow to be playable."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry:_Proving_Grounds_of_t...

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