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Re: How do you save the state in DOSBOX Wizardry 7?

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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2025 11:22:38 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I had no idea that saving your state was even a thing in DosBox as I
>> never had a need to do it.
> 
> It isn't, at least not in default DOSBox. I think some of the forks
> may offer it as a feature (I think Daum supported savestates; I know
> DOSBox-X also has save-states) but I've found it rather buggy when it
> comes to actually using it in game. It's tricky enough to do on a
> console; on a PC, lacking a standardized environment where the games
> did a lot of funky stuff with memory layouts, it's much more
> difficult. Games could often be very particular about their states,
> and save-states never restore everything perfectly back to how it was
> when the state was captured.
> 
> That said, I haven't tried using Save-States on DOSBox-X in a dog's
> age, so maybe things are better now.
> 
> 
> 

I made do with a bard instead of a samurai and also got lucky about the 
same time and rolled a lizardman ninja without "cheating."

The bard is pretty good - something of a jack of all trades.  Has 
lockpick, music, thaumaturgy and decent ranged and hide/melee.  I don't 
think his armor is good enough for the front line though.  Additionally, 
if it comes in range I'll put him as samurai eventually who also uses 
thaumaturgy.

Something I learned this time around - Alchemists have nice hit points. 
A real change from the mage.
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How do you save the state in DOSBOX Wizardry 7? Praetor Mandrake <horchata12839@gmail.com> - 2025-05-11 00:10 -0500
  Re: How do you save the state in DOSBOX Wizardry 7? Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-12 11:22 -0400
    Re: How do you save the state in DOSBOX Wizardry 7? Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2025-05-12 13:13 -0400
      Re: How do you save the state in DOSBOX Wizardry 7? Piter De Vries <horchata12839@gmail.com> - 2025-05-12 21:02 -0500
        Re: How do you save the state in DOSBOX Wizardry 7? Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-13 09:40 -0400
          Re: How do you save the state in DOSBOX Wizardry 7? Praetor Mandrake <horchata12839@gmail.com> - 2025-05-25 13:09 -0500

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