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Apple II classic franchise 'Wizardry' bought by similarly classic Atari

AppleInsider·Mike Wuerthele·25 days ago
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This one is for some of our long-time readers. Atari, yes, that Atari, has bought the rights to early "Wizardry" games. I get asked a lot how I got started using Apple products. Specifically, it was an Apple II in the late seventies, no plus, e, C, or GS. Amongst the early titles gifted to young me was the original Wizardry . That was in eighth grade, for graduation. I'm sure some high school grades suffered from having it. It didn't always boot on my single-drive DOS 3.3 system. But the disks were portable, and I'd lug them over to my friends' houses, who later in that high school period had Apple IIc and Laser 128 compatibles. Thanks, Luke and John. Also, thanks to a reset key on the keyboard, which, if you hit either it alone on my Apple II keyboard or control-open Apple-reset on the others before the drive updated the characters as dead, would allow you to recover them easily.…

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