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Re: Shadowforge (1989) and Wraith: The Devil's Demise (1990)

cbee — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:44:33 +0200

This is just plain incredible! Thanks a whole lot!

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Re: Shadowforge (1989) and Wraith: The Devil's Demise (1990)

Alex Lee — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:41:37 +0200

I managed to find Shadowforge as well! Read the description for the archive to find out how!

http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/shadowforge

- Alex

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Re: Shadowforge (1989) and Wraith: The Devil's Demise (1990)

cbee — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:10:45 +0200

Hey, Alex, thanks, runs fine for me! Super cool.

I take it you don't have an archive of Shadowforge? I'll try asking on http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/topics, then, as TanRuNomad suggested.

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Re: Shadowforge (1989) and Wraith: The Devil's Demise (1990)

Alex Lee — Wed, 23 May 2012 23:03:43 +0200

Sorry it's taken so long to respond to your request cbee!

If you go to:

http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/wraith

I've now got an archive up of Wraith. It'll require a IIGS, even though it's not actually a IIGS specific program. More details on that page itself.

It's part of 8-bit Apple II software that was released on 3.5" disk:

http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/8-bit-games-on-3-5-disk

Hope you enjoy the game! Let us know via the forum here how it goes, as I haven't tested it myself.

- Alex

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Re: Shadowforge (1989) and Wraith: The Devil's Demise (1990)

TanRuNomad — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:03:35 +0200

I too tried running Wraith: The Devil's Demise found at http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Games/

It doesn't take long before the game crashes for me. It gets as far as the title screen asking me if I want to watch the demonstration or play a game. I enter in my name and then SSRRRRREEEECCCCCHHHHH, it makes a loud annoying noise and yeah, that's the game

I'm sure someone must have a copy of both this and Shadowforge. You might try asking on http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/topics since both these games are technically Apple II games at the programming level.

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Shadowforge (1989) and Wraith: The Devil's Demise (1990)

cbee — Sun, 13 May 2012 14:17:50 +0200

Hello,

I'm wondering if someone might know of a way to find copies of two early RPGs written by John Carmack, Shadowforge (1989) and Wraith: The Devil's Demise (1990), both published by Nite Owl Productions. I've been looking for them everywhere, but to no avail - well, almost. I've actually found an .shk file of Wraith here: http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/v2000/Sep/Archives/, and even used CiderPress to unshrink it and turn it into a .po image, but KEGS32 fails to run the game for me for some reason.

I *think* both Shadowforge and Wraith are supposed to be Apple II GS games, but truth be told I'm not even sure about that - they're extremely obscure. The games must be abandonware at this point since Nite Owl Productions has long ceased to be, so ideally I'm looking for a disk image I could actually run with KEGS32.

Barring that, if someone has the games, would you be so kind as to take a couple of in-game screenshots? I'm preparing a retrospective article on Ultima-likes for the RPG Codex (http://rpgcodex.net/), and both Shadowforge and Wraith are supposed to be just that so I'd love to have some screenshots, at least.

Thanks

- Irina

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