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[beermoney]

Originally Posted by Scatty

Yes this is how the map kit works, in this game there's no map staying all the time on your screen so it's more realistic. The higher your level in mapping, the more details are shown with the map kit too, btw. It's worth increasing it.

I cannot believe this game is still being played! I love it! I had this game ages ago.

I'm new to the entire dos thing but still have the game. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get started?

[dosraider]

Dosbox and here is some stuff you should read.

[beermoney]

Originally Posted by dosraider

Dosbox and here is some stuff you should read.

Great, thank you for the reply!

[slavestate]

Originally Posted by KrokodylPiotr

this game is too hard, they just kill my team. after one minute of playing :laugh: i found a gold cd version of this game in my treasure box so i'll keep trying ......

HAH I take it youve never tried to play the very first Wizardry?

You wanna talk about a game that will make you throw your monitor across the room after about 30 minutes of playtime.. Thats the king right there.
Im still playing VII (bought it new in 92 and am STILL trying to finish it) and yeah its pretty tough you just have to be careful..

Its NOTHING like the first few though. Those games were practically impossible unless you owned a character editor like WizPlus, or you used the old Bishop Identify cheats to level up your guys.. Guess thats why Ultima always won as my favorite series over Wizardry and Bards Tale back then..

Originally Posted by Scatty

Yes this is how the map kit works, in this game there's no map staying all the time on your screen so it's more realistic. The higher your level in mapping, the more details are shown with the map kit too, btw. It's worth increasing it.

Thanks dude I've had the Wizardry Archives disk for like 15 years now, it's an immense game series. I just had memories as a child of playing with a permanant map... I guess I was mistaken :P

I have downloaded one of the pre-installed versions on DosBox 0.73, run Vinstall and set:

Music to Roland

Sound to Soundblaster

Music sounds fine, but the effects can only be described as being ZX Spectrum quality. Last time I played this was in 1993 when it first came out, so I can't really remember the quality of the effects, but surely they are better than what I'm hearing.

[Scatty]

The sound effects in Wizardry VII are fully digital, so their quality should be better than the PC speaker one, which would be what ZX Spectrum sound is pretty close to. Are you sure vinstall saved the settings after you quit it? Maybe it's still running with the default settings. By the way, if you don't own a Roland sound module or have Virtual Sound Canvas installed, the music won't sound correctly unter the Roland setting in DosBox as it was intended to. You would be probably better of setting music to Soundblaster too.

[yoga]

Hi, Scatty,

You know very well this game?

yours

yoga

[Scatty]

Yes I know this game well, have played it many times. Why?

[yoga]

Maybe after U8 will start it..
Are the battles very hard?