Wizard's Castle game from July/August 1980 issue of Recreational Computing magazine
Written for Exidy Sorceror by
Modified for Heath Microsoft BASIC by
Rewritten for 's Inform by with help from the folks on ifMUD.
Do you want to play in Classic mode, Normal mode, Statistician mode or Cartographer mode?
Classic mode is as close as possible to the original text, including typos and miscellaneous ugliness. If you're not on a nostalgia trip, normal mode contains less typos and presents a few things (such as the final game summary) in a slightly neater way. Statistician mode is similar to normal mode but uses the status line to display your attributes and equipment instead of printing them out at the start of each turn. Cartographer mode ('m'ap mode) uses the status line to display a map of the current dungeon level.
The other notable difference is in the coordinate systems. In the original game, the 'x' axis was the vertical axis, and the 'y' axis the horizontal. All the new versions use the normally-accepted axes. This change manifests itself only in the displaying of coordinates and in teleporting, so the only thing to bear in mind is that whichever mode you are playing in, you simply need to enter the coordinates when teleporting in the same order as they are printed.
Enter C, N, S or M to select mode: