Wanderer I 1.2.1

File	wanderer-i-121.hqx
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Version	1.2.1
Category	Adventure Game
Architecture	68K

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Wanderer I: The Cult of Misery is a freeware Ultima-style role-playing game written exclusively for the Macintosh by Quinn Dunki and released in 1995. The player, hunting the killers of a murdered sister, sets out from the farming village of Horseshoe to grind, gear up, and untangle a wider conspiracy.GameplayThe game uses an overhead tile view in the classic Ultima mold. Players explore towns, talk to NPCs, raid dungeons, manage inventory and party stats, and chip away at a long main quest line that introduces the eponymous Cult of Misery. Combat is turn-based on the world map.Engine and lineageWanderer I runs on Quinn Dunki's in-house Pisces Roleplay engine, which she also intended to power a planned commercial sequel teased in the original release notes. The engine targets 8-bit color and 68020-class hardware, and the world is large enough that disk usage grows from roughly 3 to 10 MB as the save state expands.System requirementsRequires a 68020 or later Macintosh, System 7.0 through Mac OS 9, 8-bit color, 32-bit addressing, and around 5 to 8 MB of free RAM. Sound Manager 3.0 is recommended. The release was distributed as a BinHex'd self-extracting archive.Distribution and statusReleased as freeware with explicit permission to redistribute via FTP, the web, and CD-ROM compilations. The Info-Mac archive copy preserved here is version 1.21, the last public build before development pivoted toward the never-finished commercial follow-up.