Almost all floppy controllers can recognize 720kb floppy drives. If not I would advise installing a 720kb floppy drive to make things very easy. There are several other methods to transfer the files such as via a network connection or ZIP drive (if you have a NEC V20 or later installed) but I prefer a 720kb floppy drive as it is a very easy method and chances are you already have one installed. This will likely be an MFM drive but there are more modern methods such as using a 8 bit IDE controller card and an IDE hard drive. Your also going to need a hard drive in your machine to copy the games to, obviously.
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Unless you have a CD-ROM drive installed in your early 80’s PC (unlikely) your going to need a method to transfer the files. I wouldn’t want to trust a floppy disk these days with save data for an RPG you may of just dumped hours upon hours into. Of course there is the negative of not being able to play as originally intended off a floppy disk but I myself think it’s a good trade off for the ability to play and save straight from a hard drive and have the greater reliability that comes with that medium. The modified files automatically advance through prompts where switching disks would otherwise be required.
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This is because the games in the archive, amusingly enough, have been officially modified with a 3rd party, gray-area software loader () to run off of a hard drive which is very good news for us. Obviously these files will no longer fit on a 360k floppy. On the archives collection Wizardry 1 through 5 are broke into three files,, wiz1.dsk and a save1.dsk the wiz1.dsk is exactly 320kb, 2kb and finally save1.dsk is 640kb. The bad news is you cannot copy the games from the CD to floppy and play them as you would an original copy. When it comes to the Wizardry Archives there is good and bad news. simply put the floppy into your machine and power on. This means that no operating system such as DOS was needed.
The original Wizardry games were released on 360kb floppies and were PC booter games.
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Wizardry Archives was released in CD-ROM format in 1998 and contained the first seven games in the series as well as Wizardry Gold. Are these collections of any use to us? Well friends, read on to find out. But what about us purists that long for the experience of these games on early 1980’s 8088 based hardware from the time they were released? After all these collections were released in the era of Windows 9X and were surly expected to run under that environment. Fortunately for us collections of both these series were compiled on CD-ROM in the late 90’s and although these collections also go for a hefty sums these days they still not only represent the better value but you have the piece of mind of having all the games on a convenient CD. Unfortunately if you want a physical copy many of these early games are not only hard to find but also command a hefty price. The Ultima and Wizardry series are heavy hitters of the early CRPG days and generally considered must plays for anyone even remotely interested in the early days of PC RPG’s.
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