Short: Excellent 50-level puzzle/platform game
Author: Guido and Soren Appenzeller 1990/ 3 Amigos 1991
Uploader: bill.bennett@zoology.ox.ac.uk
Type: game/jump
Action: NoAGA; PAL
Long: 1/5/95
Wizzys Quest is the best PD platform/puzzle game I have EVER played, so
despite its bugginess (see below) I thought I'd upload it to Aminet.
Wizzys Quest has 50 levels, getting progressively harder, and the final
animation is worth persevering for. You have to use your wizard to create
and destroy blocks on each screen to create a safe path for your master to
walk to the exit. There are various monsters (skeletons, wraiths, beholders
and jack o' lanterns) to hinder you, each with different characteristics, as
well as locks, keys and transporters. The closest reference point is
Lemmings, but Wizzys Quest is quite a unique game.
CAVEAT:
This is an OLD game, written in GFA BASIC for Kickstart 1.3. It does work
OK on my 68000-based OCS A1000 under 2.04 (KS 37.175), and multitasks
(fairly) well. I make no guarantees for more modern machines i.e. AGA.
Note that the game takes up an entire PAL screen, so boot in PAL mode, NTSC
users. The included 'patchntsc' executable is supposed to trick old NTSC
machines without the fat Agnus into booting in PAL mode, but again, I
haven't tried it and I have no idea how well it works - I didn't write any
of these programs.
'WizzysQuest' starts the game direct, and 'Intro' will put up instructions
and info before starting the game. Both programs occasionally freeze up on
my system, and 'Intro' seems particularly flaky: I suspect the GFA BASIC
compiler is not as system-legal as it ought to be. They must be launched
from the CLI, not Workbench.
Bill Bennett
bill.bennett@zoology.ox.ac.uk
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Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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16506 7324 55.6% 29-Sep-90 00:00:52 +Blocks.GB
16506 7727 53.1% 29-Sep-90 00:00:34 +Blocks2.GB
10608 4672 55.9% 29-Sep-90 00:00:44 +levels
8064 3165 60.7% 29-Sep-90 00:00:58 +spr1.spr
8064 2588 67.9% 29-Sep-90 00:00:40 +spr2.spr
102 88 13.7% 28-Sep-90 23:59:58 +Highscores
23924 15842 33.7% 01-May-95 07:54:08 +Intro
488 405 17.0% 29-Sep-90 00:00:02 +patchntsc
2743 857 68.7% 28-Sep-90 23:59:58 +E
27388 17261 36.9% 29-Sep-90 00:00:26 +final.03
8536 3845 54.9% 28-Sep-90 23:59:56 +GAD.20c
25652 18457 28.0% 29-Sep-90 00:00:12 +Scroll1
3466 2298 33.6% 29-Sep-90 00:01:02 +S1
1200 598 50.1% 29-Sep-90 00:01:02 +S2
2684 2361 12.0% 28-Sep-90 23:59:44 +S3
2976 2395 19.5% 28-Sep-90 23:59:48 +S4
4232 3643 13.9% 28-Sep-90 23:59:52 +S5
1555 1200 22.8% 28-Sep-90 23:59:56 +s6
4180 2029 51.4% 28-Sep-90 23:59:48 +anleitung
558 306 45.1% 29-Sep-90 00:01:02 +einl
558 306 45.1% 28-Sep-90 23:59:44 +einleitung
77480 37181 52.0% 24-Apr-95 02:50:36 +WizzysQuest
1572 919 41.5% 01-May-95 08:43:12 +WizzysQuest.readme
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249042 135467 45.6% 05-May-95 14:05:48 23 files