uther@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Uther Rhys of Locksley) (12/31/90)
<sigh> Dumb me! I just killed my characters in Wizardry, without a recent
backup. I'd like to just edit my backups to 'restore' them to where they were
before the originals died. Could someone point me in the direction of a
Wizardry editor? Thanks! (Of course, I'm using an IBM-type clone...)
Uther
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I used to fix my characters with the Ultra utilities before I won the
game. The problem is that Wizardry is p-system based and therefore not
DOS readable. For some reason Norton utilities failed to work on
Wizardry disks, even though Ultra succeeded nicely. You will have to
hack around a bit to find the correct bits to play with. If you are
still desperate, drop me a line and I can send you a copy of my
"character map". (I hacked characters for a long time to get the info I
have.)
-Brian
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------marks@whoville.umiacs.umd.edu (Mark A. Schleifer) (01/05/91)
In article <0bUtfNW00UhW41GqN6@andrew.cmu.edu> bg11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian E. Gallew) writes: >I used to fix my characters with the Ultra utilities before I won the >game. The problem is that Wizardry is p-system based and therefore not >DOS readable. For some reason Norton utilities failed to work on >Wizardry disks, even though Ultra succeeded nicely. The trick with the Wizardry disks is that they are formatted at 8 sectors per track instead of 9. I got around this problem by formatting a DS/DD disk as 320k and put dos on it. Boot from this new disk. Now you can use whatever sector editor you want Norton, PC-Tools, etc. with no trouble. - Mark -- Spoken: Mark A. Schleifer Domain: marks@umiacs.umd.edu UUCP: uunet!mimsy!umiacs!marks Phone: +1-301-405-6746 USPS: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742