This congrats is a few years out of date 
because Pani wrote this game (with a mate) in the 80s.
I think it's a pretty impressive achievement to write a commercial adventure game (with graphics!) for a computer when computers had only just reached the home market and I think he deserves a bit of a belated 
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All about Wizard's Spell here - you can actually dowload it and play with a Speccy emulator
Here's a screenshot
If only he had made a million in profit and was now living happily ever after.
I wrote programs in BASIC. The ex-boyfriend and I tried to sell pathetic attempts at educational software. We did not make a million or live happily every after, Long Story.
So I know how much work went into just that and for someone to write a "real" commerical program and with graphics would have taken so much more effort. Pani is lucky still to be alive, thats all I can say.
I never quite understood about the emulator things and how they work, it all seemed a bit too difficult for my ageing brain. It is on my list of todo things. Do you play the tapes into them, that was bad enough 25 years ago with errors.
On that website , should the Java option have ran the wizard program on my PC. It just stayed a black square. ?
I ated my crayon just then. Furby and Pani clearly operate on a higher plane than I do when it comes to these matters.
But congrats to Pani on his programme!
Thanks 
Although it can be played with the emulator I don't especially recommend it. It wasn't bad for its time, but crude by today's standards.
And no you don't need tapes. it's in a file while you download and the emulater thinks that is the tape. I got it working once ages ago though it was fiddly as I recall.
I'd have liked to have made a a million in profit, but my immediate plan was enough money to buy LOTS of computers and hardware. I wanted to have several superfast computers so that I could move between them running lots of things at once. I also wanted to get away from those awful tapes we had to use which were so unreliable.
I got my wish in the end though it has taken a very long time and the terabytes of storage I have now are used for lots of backups because they are still unreliable 
Furby, you must tell us more about the programs you wrote. I think the educational software was a good plan even if it didn't make you rich. It was the fun of trying that counts. It was an exciting time for me and I'd love to hear more.
Oh and those are just still images though I thought when I clicked around yesterday I saw a thing that shuffled through more of them.
Helio, emulators are programs that run on a PC that mimic an old computer or games console. You load a game into memory and run the emulator plus game, with each game instruction translated in real time to code that the PC's CPU can understand. A detailed knowledge of the architecture of the original cpu, graphics, sound and input devices is required to write such an emulator.
Emulators exist for all the early computers and games consoles such as Amiga, Atari, Spectrum, Playstation, Nintendo 64, and lots more.
The original roms have also been leeched from old arcade machines and used in arcade emulators, the best of these being Multple Arcade Machine Emulator, or MAME for short.
Thanks eccles. Now there are words on top, in sentences, and that's fine. I get that bit. But the crayons lurk beneath .....
Think of an emulator as a translator which reads machine instructions in a program written for, say, a Spectrum, converts them into an instruction or set of instructions that the PC understands then runs them. It can do this as fast as the original code could run on the Spectrum because PCs are now much more powerful than the Spectrum was.
Translators can certainly come in handy at times! 
Sighs, ok, it's magic.
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