Wizardry II: The Knight Of Diamonds Mac OS
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- Minimium requirements, supported features and other tech-info for Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds - The Second Scenario (Apple II).
- A detailed look at the entire Wizardry series plus Wizards and Warriors, including maps, characters files, walkthroughs and more for: Wizardry 1: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord; Wizardry 2.
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MSDOS release: This is the best version to use if your running Dosbox on new Windows hardware. It includes all wizardry games from 1 to 5.
PC Booter: A booter is a game (most common), or program (not so common, but MCS and PCS are examples) that doesn't need any operating system to work. You just stick the disk into the drive and boot, hence the name. Booting games (on the PC) were common in the early and mid eighties. The concept has many advantages for the programmers. They didn't have to consider that any other program were interfering, so they could hook any interrupt they wanted, without bothering to call the original handler. They had the machine entirely for themselves, all memory open for use. No poorly written OS to consider, and the disk could be in virtually any layout (which also was a great thing for protections!).
Of course, the booter concept also had its downsides. You couldn't copy the booting game to harddisk, for example. Since there were usually no files to copy, and the disk was usually protected somehow, it was impossible to store the game on HD. This was of course no problem at first, since HDs were few, far between and expensive! But as HDs became each man's property, booters became a nuisance. You had to keep a lot of disks around just to be able to play your favorite games, even when you had a HD! So, eventually the concept of booters were dropped.
Try the bootable disk emulator here: Flopper.
Apple II release: This can be used on the original Apple II harware or on an Apple II emulator for Windows/MacOS.
Kryoflux images: Copy protected floppy disk images are usually archived with a Kryoflux. You must write these to a floppy disk using the Kryoflux hardware, or convert them to another format with the HxC disk tools.
Transcopy images: Copy protected floppy disk images are sometimes also archived with a Central Point Deluxe Option Board AKA a TransCopy card. This is a very old, but once popular device. You must write these to a floppy disk using a TransCopy card. Note that the Transcopy software expects 'IMG' extensions, but to avoid conflicts we must use the '.TC' file name extension.
Some emulators directly support the TC image format. It is possible to convert TC to other formats.
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Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds |
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Developer: Sir-Tech This game has unused graphics. |
Not to be confused with FreeCell II: The King of Diamonds.
Filler Scribbles
Like all MacPaint documents, the one containing the title screen has an unchangeable resolution of 576 by 720 pixels. Much of the leftover space in it is taken up by scribbling, with the annotation 'This ensures no read error on Load...'
Despite that warning, erasing the unused portions of the image (including the one-pixel border) had no visible effect when the game's about screen was viewed from a floppy disk.
The Wizardry series | |
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DOS | Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds - The Second Scenario • Wizardry: The Return of Werdna - The Fourth Scenario |
NES | Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord • Wizardry II: Knight of Diamonds • Wizardry II: Legacy of Llylgamyn |
Mac OS Classic | Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds |
Game Boy (Color) | Wizardry Gaiden 2: Curse of the Ancient Emperor • Wizardry Gaiden 3: Scripture of the Dark • Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord • Wizardry II: Knight of Diamonds • Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn • Wizardry Empire • Wizardry Empire: Fukkatsu no Tsue |
SNES | Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom |
PlayStation | Wizardry Empire: Inishie no Oujo • Wizardry Empire II: Oujo no Isan |
Nintendo DS | Wizardry: Seimei no Kusabi • Wizardry: Boukyaku no Isan |
PlayStation 2 | Wizardry Xth: Academy of Frontier • Wizardry Xth 2: Unlimited Students |