The Wizards of Sir-Tech

TCW Podcast Episode 114 - The Wizards of Sir-Tech   We look at the company Sir-Tech.  Known as "the Wizardry company", and founded by Norman Sirotek and Robert Woodhead.  The company was originally founded to market Info Tree, a database program.  The shift was made into video games starting with the release of Galactic Attack.  With the heavy influences of the games on the PLATO system.  Andrew Greenberg and Woodhead would meet, and would start collaboration on what would eventually be Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.  One of the best produced games at the time, it was a major hit on the Apple II platform.  Sustainability for the franchise was hamstrung with lack of innovation, and the requirement of the first game to play Wizardry II and III.  This culminated with the major disaster that was the release of Wizardry IV.     TCW 084 - Time Shared: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/time-shared/ CARDIAC - Computer Teaching Tool: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/museum/cardiac.html Free Pascal and Lazarus Wiki: https://wiki.freepascal.org/ The Digital Antiquarian - Pascal and the P-Machine: https://www.filfre.net/2012/03/pascal-and-the-p-machine/ Empire on Plato: http://www.daleske.com/plato/empire.php Galactic Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPBac4JAOmg DND  - DOS version: https://www.classicdosgames.com/online/dnd_121.html PLATO Online Emulation: https://www.cyber1.org/index.asp Wizardry I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-iOZzwIlMA Wizardry II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5eYUXmt_sk Wizardry III (PC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWa5HqhWdg Wizardry IV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQaRAYcUoIM TCW038 - Origin Story: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/origin-story-1489274251/   New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!   TCW Email: [email protected]  Twitter: @tcwpodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theycreateworlds Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com Alex's book is available for preorder and should be released through CRC Press in December 2019: http://bit.ly/TCWBOOK1   Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode -  Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download:http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode  Outro Music: RolemMusic - Bacterial Love - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love    Copyright: Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/