Wizardry… I loved that game… but where did it go?
Years ago I was introduced to “Bain of the Cosmic Forge”. What I think was the 5th installment in the Wizardry series. I truely loved it, I remember playing it with my dad. The whole family whatching on out little Tandy 1000. I remember my shaking in fear when the Pirates would come in the screen. It was a time I will always remember. I eventually got Wizardry 7 and loved it as well. Even today I play it in my Dos Box in linux.
But where did it go from there? Well, they went to 3d and people loved it. I never played it. But eventually sit-tech went under and we sadly saw David W. Bradley fall off the map as well.
Mr. Bradley, will you help use bring this game back to it’s glory days with a little flair?
Are there others that believe this game still has a lot of life left in it?
If you guys think so, please show your support. I would love to get this game running in an online version.
In particular I want to use the features of the web to make this game even more fun. A mix between a graphical MUD and Wizardry. Something that is an ever expanding product that can be a light project for everyone. I have hosting space for something of this magnitude. I have the skills for the framework and engine.
HTML, Javascript, Python, web2py
But I would need help with things like…
Story line, Avatars, scenery, game balancing, weapons, etc…
If your an artist wanting to get their name out and would like to contribute to this massive idea and fun I think we should get in touch.
I have some mockups I have been working on for the game and we could post ideas here in the comments about what we could do next to make this happen.
My daughter is flipping awsome.
She thought this up her self. She’s got that, “I’M READY!!!” look. She can stick up one thumb, but she is trying to get the other one too. Awsome girl.
Hehe… Microsoft recommends mac.
I wonder if they did this because they didn’t want make developers to create websites that workin windows unless they were using windows. (Just like make with the iphone.)
Boy you know, I hate them both. Sometimes mac more than windows!
http://web.archive.org/web/20080106181017/http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorer
Broadband seems to work…
I got the internal broadband from Dell this week for christmas. I haven’t put the sim card in as I left it in the car. But it seems detect it properly and shows up properly in the netwrok manager. I love how network manager takes all times of internet connections and shows them in one screen. Very nice. I just wish I had a little more feedback when I was connecting to things.
A broken harddrive, but glad it was fixed fast.
I use my Dell m4400 hard. Real hard. That’s why I got the extended warranty on my computer. I also keep frequent backups.
Sure enough, an en expected thing happened and the hardrive broken. It was, well, half working, I put it in a USB encasing and backed up all that I could that changed since 2 weeks ago (my last full backup).
I installed linux. (It only took about 30 minutes.) It was the newer version that what I had installed before. I will have to say… 9.10 is pretty nice. Best of all, when I put the external usb device that had my old hardrive in it. Sure enough a scren popped up telling me to back up everything and get a new hardrive. COOL! I love linux, it was able to look at the drives features and report that there were issues.
All in all, it was actually a good experience. I did lose money out of it. One day worth, but it wasn’t more than that. Dell was fast, it was less than 24 hours and I had a new drive at my door step. They even offered to just come and swap the drive for me, but I wanted to save them money too. 
Thanks dell!
