Let's Play Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord 

Thanks for watching! That's fascinating to hear, I didn't get to experience dungeon crawling back in the day, but it sounds great.

Thanks for watching, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!!

Thanks for watching! Yeah it's super difficult lol. I'm hoping the new remake brings in a lot of new Wizardry fans.

thanks for watching!

Dhomochevsky good to be back! Thanks for watching :)

I agree, although having to press different keys for each option is very inefficient and uncomfortable. It's beyond old-school rawness; it's just not good.

@@unsiliquaria Honestly, I usually prefer it. Modern control schemes often make me feel limited.

I need to play more of it, probably will try the NES version instead next time.

It seems brutal

Thanks for watching and sharing your experience! Must have been such an exciting time back in the Apple II days.

@@NickBurnham1 Thanks for thanking me after I was a little negative about your video not holding my attention, but, as usual I've been on the computer all day and am a bit fatigued too. Yeah the 80's was an exciting time in so many ways as the computer thing was just taking off and very few people even knew what they were about. I had already been into electronics and communications, which was the kind of background most of my peers came from in those days and the general public at large hadn't a clue what you could do with computers. Most of the revolutionary things and basic stuff all began on the Apple. No other machines had colour for example. Then they brought out sound cards, etc. It was fascinating to see the early developments, like music & speech recognition - even a robot arm (which we programmed to have it press the reset key, thus committing suicide) :) It was on the Apple ][e that I first saw spreadsheets, chess, and many many games as I knew a few geeks and we collected and shared games. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards started on the Apple ][e as "Soft Porn Adventure" and was really cleverly done. There was Choplifter (which I loved) Sargon chess, and a brilliant musical kaleidoscope, then Castle Wolfenstein and Space Quest (same people as SPA - and again, highly creative use of the primitive graphics of those days. Amazing era as music went electronic, punk came out, MTV started and stuff like Pink Floyd's The Wall and Tommy were just amazing. The global concert for Live Aid was something I'll never forget. Max Headroom was on the TV and I loved that too. There has never been a decade like it. The early Apple Mac came out and when that went colour that was a revolution in its own right. If I had a time machine...... ;o)

Apple IIe was where I became addicted to this game

Yeah, it's great. If you wanna hear Nick ramble on like a senile old lady.

Agreed. The trick is to let the stats go below 0.... then you'e all set.

I remember playing this on an Apple 2+. If you shut off the power to keep from dying, you got a 10 year aging penalty. They took that out of newer versions.

Thank you! Glad to be back ^_^

Thanks! I highly recommend it, bet your Ultima map will look awesome

@@NickBurnham1 One question I have is that will this work with any dos game? I see some are noted on the website as having special coding but how well does it work for other non listed crpg games?

@@jonathont5570 You can still use the tool with other DOS games, but unfortunately, it won't be able to automap where you are in the game

Etrian Odyssey series. Thanks for watching!

@@NickBurnham1 Thank you!

Hey! You'll need to play it through the Game Link version of DosBox from here: gridcartographer.com/download/#clients You'll have to get your Wizardry files onto your computer somehow or download them from an abandonware site first.

You need to find the install folder, and then replace the "Dosbox" folder in it with one supplied on the grid Cartographer site. Then you need to change one line in the largest config file from "output: overlay" to "output: gamelink" and you should be ready to go, unless you've downloaded a premade map that you wish to use.

Grid Cartographer and DOS

I think so! If you like this kind of game I think it's great

@@NickBurnham1 How you play a game, you have to add it into this program or open it. Install complicated?

@@Katsura_ja_nai_Zura_da Nah, it's easy. You just have to open the game with the gamelink version of DosBox from here gridcartographer.com/download/#clients and run Grid Cartographer.

@@Katsura_ja_nai_Zura_da David Walters has made a special DosBox folder that is used to replace the default one installed with these games. Then all you have to do is edit one line of the larger config file to go from "output: overlay" to "output: gamelink" then you start grid cartographer, (Optionally, load up a pre-made map for the game) and then you start the game itself.

No, legit this is how old people play games.

Probably not this version of Wizardry, maybe the NES one in the future