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From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Wizardry: - DONT BUY IT!!!
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Date: 4 Apr 91 11:49:21 GMT
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In article <10672@mirsa.inria.fr>, Colas Nahaboo writes:

> ever saw. I spent nights on Wizardy I and II on my apple II 10 years ago, but I
> just tried Wizardry 6 on my amiga, and was severely disapointed. 
> 
> PLEASE PEOPLE DON'T BUY IT -- Sir-Tech should be sued by consumer organizations
> for releasing such a user-despising product!

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Sigh.

I too was a fond Wizardry fanatic on ye olde Apple ][+. Solved 1, 2 and 3, but
bombed out severely in #4 - that was one tough game.

Never saw #5, though I heard rumours that it was ridiculously easy on the IBM
platforms.

I remember pestering SirTech during the last half of 1986 (international phone
calls are still pretty expensive y'know!), asking them to produce Wizardry on
the Amiga - I had seen it on the Mac, and that was a damned fine conversion
too. If they produced Wizardry for the Amiga in the same way they did on the
Mac, they would have a best seller.

Reading your article made me fairly depressed. I had planned on buying
Wizardry, but if it's only going to be a -slow and klutzy- rendition, then why
bother?

Thankyou for your article.

Dac
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