Case study

Wizardry IV: Apple II disk and format investigation

An investigation of the Apple II release of Wizardry IV uses SYSTEM.RELOC to map five disk sides into a virtual volume and examines the separate sixth side. It studies the game's p-machine program, Huffman text, level maps and leftover files, with purpose-built readers and saved command output supporting the format findings.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 0
Last commit: 2026-10-31
Language: Python

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Python 3 and the six Wizardry IV disk images are needed to reproduce the commands.
Limits: The author reports that 29.40% of disk blocks were decoded and closed; the rest were identified but not decoded.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{apple2-wizardryiv-doc-case,
  title = {{Wizardry IV: Apple II disk and format investigation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/apple2-wizardryiv-doc}},
  url = {https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/apple2-wizardryiv-doc},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/apple2-wizardryiv-doc-case/}}
}

Plain text

Wizardry IV: Apple II disk and format investigation. https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/apple2-wizardryiv-doc (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/apple2-wizardryiv-doc-case/

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README.md GitHub · vs-sr-dev/apple2-wizardryiv-doc · Revision 8cbe551
docs/03-six-sides-and-the-virtual-drive.md GitHub · vs-sr-dev/apple2-wizardryiv-doc · Revision 8cbe551