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[HailToNietzsche]

Yesterday's games seem to be much more difficult than present ones. I was killed by the first enemies I stumbled across all the time. These Ratkins aren't the most powerful menace in this game, are they? :laugh:

Any hints how to manage this laughable "obstacle"? :confused:

[Turbo Beholder]

If you're beginner, select easy difficulty in config. See some hints in manual about PC creation. Don't make PC fighter if DS isn't fixed (e.g. with this) — bug kills.

Originally Posted by HailToNietzsche

I was killed by the first enemies I stumbled across all the time. These Ratkins aren't the most powerful menace in this game, are they?

Lesson: don't choose simple way. That is, instead of running straight into town, visit beginners' dungeon (fountain is better than rest, especially that one) and river bank (Skull Bones, Map), collect few items, get XP on local fauna & flora. With sensibly grown 4-5 lvl PCs and half-decent tactics you'll easily trample poor rodents.
3 casters (1/possible stack) with Sleep or at least Missile Shield are desirable (Bard with lute is best one), mass-harm spells won't hurt, but aren't needed: Samurai is available long before Death Wish. Just to save time of tryng spells on such target: Rattkin are agile and eat offal, so they got good resistance for Missiles and decent Poison and Paralysis.

[HailToNietzsche]

Thank you very much, Turbo Beholder. This truly is an excellent collection of hints. Especially the bugfix was very useful.

I'm off now to give it another try. Thanks again. See ya.

[GeeLW]

i still have (and recently reinstalled) my copy of wizardry gold, so revisiting this classic brings back tons of great memories.

interestingly enough there's a japanese playstation port from 1994 with redone english voiceovers (with japanese text except for some minor menu stuff), all new cg cutscenes and totally redone interior/exterior graphics along with slightly redrawn character art. the game moves a bit quicker, but is just as challenging from what i've played. i'm guessing the only reason it was never brought to the US, was it was a bit dated visually and sony wanted to show off the 3D capabilities of the playstation.

it's too bad, as there ended up being a load of wizardry games developed in japan, including remakes of the first five games (all with an english text option for the menus)...

[TotalAnarchy]

Because it's sold on Amazon, Wizardry VII is from now on not available for download.

[TheChosen]

We made a mistake while evaluating this games status. Download is now back up again.

Any easier way to get this installed? I have no idea what 'mounting the C:' is or where to begin with that.

Tried one way mentioned by Scatty but it asks for the source drive and obviously I don't have that.

Any help would be great!

[Skyfly]

Originally Posted by random

Any easier way to get this installed? I have no idea what 'mounting the C:' is or where to begin with that.

Tried one way mentioned by Scatty but it asks for the source drive and obviously I don't have that.

Any help would be great!

Well, you probably need DosBox, and that has the brief instructions on how to get things rolling.

You need to change DosBox.conf, and I think you need to use a command to get dosbox.conf to show up, in the latest version.

Mount the "C: drive" in Dosbox to a folder on your hard drive, say C:\OldGames. That is, you create a folder where you place all the old games in their own directories. Then you tell DosBox to use that folder as the C:\ drive.

In DOsbox 0.73, you need to run, or type, 'config -writeconfig localfile' to get your dosbox.conf file. Then you edit that file, with wordpad or other text editor, under the AUTOEXEC heading at the bottom.

E.G.

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c d:\oldgames (or C:\OldGames) {wherever you have created this folder}
mount d g:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 ioctl {wherever you have a CD drive}
c:

[The Fifth Horseman]

You need to change DosBox.conf, and I think you need to use a command to get dosbox.conf to show up, in the latest version.

Nope, there's a shortcut to it in the DOSBox entry in the Start Menu. Its' actual location is somewhere in your Documents and Settings directory.

Random: This should help.

[Luchsen]

Without knowledge about "mounting the C:", you will have even greater fun with the non-pre-installed version.