Posted June 21, 2016
Hi people
I was a very early adopter of Wizardry 1 on an Apple ][ and the entire family became enormously addicted. It remains an all-time favourite in my book. But the Apple ][ is long gone - how I wish I still had it!.
Now, many years later, at long last, I have a DOS version residing on the HDD of my Laptop, which is running WinXP SP3.
De-Fend Reloaded is installed and the game seems to run just fine with the six characters already present in it. But the huge problem is that I cannot successfully make and store any New Characters.
I can create a character just fine, but it has proved impossible to progress from the CREATE screen because [ESC] is not accepted by the program and I cannot then even back out of Create. I have tried every key combination I can think of, all to no effect. There is no lock-up, in that I can continue to freely adjust the bonus points, but that's all. My only other option is to ALT-TAB out of DOS and back into Windows. I can then close the Wizardry task from there. When I do, it's interesting that Windows then tells me that Wizardry is waiting for input.
I am having a huge amount of nostalgic pleasure, VERY cautiously playing with the existing party, but this dead end is driving me crazy. I LOVE this game! Does anyone have any insight please?
I was a very early adopter of Wizardry 1 on an Apple ][ and the entire family became enormously addicted. It remains an all-time favourite in my book. But the Apple ][ is long gone - how I wish I still had it!.
Now, many years later, at long last, I have a DOS version residing on the HDD of my Laptop, which is running WinXP SP3.
De-Fend Reloaded is installed and the game seems to run just fine with the six characters already present in it. But the huge problem is that I cannot successfully make and store any New Characters.
I can create a character just fine, but it has proved impossible to progress from the CREATE screen because [ESC] is not accepted by the program and I cannot then even back out of Create. I have tried every key combination I can think of, all to no effect. There is no lock-up, in that I can continue to freely adjust the bonus points, but that's all. My only other option is to ALT-TAB out of DOS and back into Windows. I can then close the Wizardry task from there. When I do, it's interesting that Windows then tells me that Wizardry is waiting for input.
I am having a huge amount of nostalgic pleasure, VERY cautiously playing with the existing party, but this dead end is driving me crazy. I LOVE this game! Does anyone have any insight please?
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