A couple of weeks ago was using my old computer and discovered some long lost files from over a decade ago – back when my main computer was my trusty Amiga500. Although the laptop I am typing this on is easily hundreds of times faster and more capable in every way, I sometimes get nostalgic for the good old days.
Anyway, along with a few MOD files, my fourth year honors project, and assorted junk, I found a copy of this:
Wizard’s Isle Title Screen
Wizard’s Isle was a text adventure game I wrote one week during a summer that I spent gloriously unemployed (1995 according to the copyright notice). It is written in AMOS and runs perfectly in UAE (the emulator, not the country) – right down to the awful title music.
The premise of the game is that you have been sent to the titular island to ask the two wizards who live there for help with the strange events that have been occurring in the kingdom, but during the voyage your ship was caught in a storm and sunk. The game opens as you wash up on the wrong side of the island.
Playing the game again for the first time in 13 (thirteen!) years is a weird experience, like walking around the house you used to live in. I am amazed at how much I remember – I completed the game on my first attempt although it is rather easy apart from a couple of idiosyncratic puzzles. I remember putting a lot of effort into the writing, and apart from the spelling mistakes it holds up well, I think. Having said that, I don’t think I will be writing another text adventure anytime soon.
I have the files on my laptop, anyone who is interested can email me for the Amiga disk image.