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Wizardry II

Game Downloads:

 

Buy it now (Wizardry 6+7)

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IBM PC MSDOS release: Download Now

IBM PC Wizardry Archvies CDROM release: Download Now

(Please note: Wizardry Archives CDROM download is hosted on the Internet Archive).

IBM PC Kryoflux dump of original 720kb disk with copy protection: Download Now

IBM PC Transcopy 5.4 dump of original 720kb disk with copy protection: Download Now

Manuals & documents:

 

Download Wizardry VI Players Manual. Download Now

Download Wizardry VI Cluebook. Download Now

Patches:

DownloadWizardry VI Divide Overflow Patch. Download Now

DownloadWizardry VI Root Patch. Download Now

DownloadWizardry VI Spell Bug Patch. Patch to fix the spell bug that causes monsters to resist the 7th level “attack all” spells. Download Now

DownloadWizardry VI carrying capacity bug patch.In Wizardry VI, your character's carrying capacity is based off of their strength and vitality. However, due to a bug, the Wizardry VI game calculates a character's carrying capacity at the start of the game, but never updates it as their strength and/or vitality increases. Download Now

DownloadWizardry VI game/world editor. Download Now

 

Notes about game versions.

 

MSDOS release: 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.