Re: No CD of Asimov

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <wkohj779ul.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>,
Stainless Steel Rat  <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> wrote:
>K> Do you mean to tell me that you think that by me having a copy of
>K> Wizardry in all its original glory (that is, mostly text, no
>K> animation, 6 color graphics, no sound, etc) is going to PREVENT me
>K> from buying a version written 10 years later for my PC?  Do you
>K> honestly believe that?

>So, tell me, have you *purchased* a copy of "Wizardry Gold" yet?

   Wizardry Gold is the Win 3.1/95/NT or Mac version of Wizardry 7.
(Basically, the dos version running in a window, but not very well.
I've run into a few bugs in my version (v1.0 for Win*), though most of
those are due to the conversion to Win*, not the original game.)
However, Sir-Tech is selling a Wizardry 1-3 bundle for PCs that is
probably very similar to Wiz 1 for the PC of 10-12 years ago, which
had worse graphics than the Apple II version.

   [I own Wiz 5 for my Apple II and Wiz Gold on CD-Rom for my Pentium
box. I managed to go three days of playing Wiz 7 before I hacked out
the savegame file format and maxxed out my characters :) Wiz Gold gets
a lot of coolness points for including the whole hintbook for free on
the CD-Rom where you can browse it at will. Charging $20 for a book on
"how to have a chance at beating this game sucks. Still haven't managed
to finish Wiz 5, but that's mostly for lack of time. Good game, that.]

   One of the nicer things about all these games on CD-- they're MUCH
harder to pirate. Sure, someone with a CD burner at home could copy
them, but can you imagine a FTP site full of 650MB disk images? It'll
be probably 10 years before home users could even have a chance of
downloading that in some semblance of speediness. There'll still be
a bunch of people trying to pirate the "classics," and they'll still
be people yelling at them to not pirate copyrighted stuff. :)

Nathan Mates
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