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Bolkonskij
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on: November 20, 2022, 15:08
I imagine only a few people here may known Wanderer I - Cult of Misery. It's a 68k role-playing game developed by a single person back in late 1995 - exclusively for the Mac! It was heavily inspired by Ultima VI and offers a story about investigating the murder of the hero's sister. Just good 90's fantasy adventure stuff! I've been playing the game since the late 90's in a on/off fashion. It's frustratingly hard at (night) times :-) but then I keep getting back. It has a very nice Macintosh interface, the graphics are good and it runs fine even on a lowly Macintosh IIci. Why wasn't this more successful then? I have not the slightest idea! I just figure it came out during a bad time for Apple. The roman "I" after the title indicates that this was planned as a series which never materialized. Which, in turn, points to bad reception? I don't remember ever seeing a review of it in some publication. Luckily, I've recently run into the developer of the game and I'll ask all those questions and hopefully get definitive answers :-) Anyone else ever been playing Wanderer? Any question you'd ask the developer? Wanderer can be downloaded from the Mac Garden. |
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Last Edit: November 20, 2022, 15:10 by Bolkonskij
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Neal_SE30
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256 MB  Posts: 401 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #1 on: November 20, 2022, 19:51
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Damn. You lot with your new fangled hi tech 8-bit colour lol Now I don’t want to sell my colour powerpc’s No i’ve not tried it, will try on my 6200 before i sell it.
Last Edit: November 20, 2022, 20:59 by Neal_SE30
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #2 on: November 21, 2022, 09:52
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While I like the color scheme I could never fathom the fascination some people had/have with TD adventure games. I just can't muster enough fantasy to envision anything "real" from such an abstract perspective. Give me a text adventure with some static graphics or a brainless "shoot-em-all-up" top-down view game - but don't try to mix the two together.
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #3 on: November 23, 2022, 11:21
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Heathen! Thou shalt not defy Ultima games! And this is comes closest to Ultima VI on the Mac!  In fact, the dev told me Wanderer was inspired by Ultima VI (and its non-disappearance on the Mac) and that she had been a fan of the series ever since the Apple II days. She said she wrote Wanderer in Think C during her university days. Didn't have much time to balance / test it, which might explain the steep rise in difficulty at (in-game night) times :-D I asked her about the source code (would be great to have it open-sourced) and she says she probably has that one on self-burned disc. (yeah, 20 year old self-burned discs ... I almost fainted at the thought of data loss! ;-) ). Unfortunately she doesn't have a CD-ROM drive at hand to access the data right now. :-/
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Neal_SE30
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256 MB Posts: 401 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #4 on: December 01, 2022, 21:01
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I really need to set aside more hobby time, you guys are having all the fun
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #5 on: December 02, 2022, 17:07
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Quit your day job. Live on welfare. Brixton-style ftw! ;-) Good news, the developer agreed to look into preserving her games. She will release both of those games eventually when she gets around to locate the files. I really hope including the source code. Naturally I suggested the Macintosh Garden ... ;-)
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Neal_SE30
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256 MB Posts: 401 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #6 on: December 05, 2022, 22:37
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Probably better off then working. Save the files!!! Yes get them on mg
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