The Wizard's Castle - text based RPG
Posted: July 27th, 2016, 5:53 pm
Hi all,
The Wizard's Castle is a text-based role-playing game, originally released on the Exidy Sorcerer in 1980, and later ported to other platforms including the IBM PC. 36 years later I've ported it to the Altair. The player creates a character, choosing between the races of elf, human, dwarf, and hobbit, distinguished by their personal statistics (strength, intelligence, and dexterity). The player can also choose the initial weapons, armor, and items to take on the quest. When all is ready, the hero ventures into the dungeon. You can type HELP at any time to get a summary of available commands.
As with all of my ports, I've tried to remain as close to original as possible given the limitations of the Altair. Caps lock must be enabled to play this game. As this game was designed for much faster systems the initial castle generation can take a little time, so please be patient.
This is a huge port (22K) and I've done a heap of debugging/testing, I don't believe there are any bugs with this port. If you do find any though, please let me know and I'll get them addressed. I have only tested this game on BASIC-80 under CP/M 2.2. Lines 10, 250, and 1020 use PRINT CHR$(27)+"[2J" to clear the screen. If your terminal/terminal emulator doesn't support DEC VT codes you will need to change these lines.
Here are some screenshots from the gaming running on the Altair Clone (connected via serial/OpenBSD).
