The first main difference between the original Crusaders of the Dark Savant and Wizardry Gold is that they are designed for different computer platforms. While Crusaders of the Dark Savant can be played on Windows 95 computers (and beyond), Wizardry Gold will not work in DOS.
A major development in the Wizardry Gold version was the introduction of speech. This was primarily in the form of a narrator who describes to the player what is happening at each stage. In the Crusaders of the Dark Savant version, this is merely text that can easily be skipped through. Another noticeable difference is the improvement of character portraits to a more colorful "fantasy comic book" feel, rather than the more realistic look of the original Crusaders of the Dark Savant's portraits.
Wizardry Gold was included as part of Interplay's Ultimate RPG Archives, that was released in 1998, and it is also available in the Ultimate Wizardry Archives that contains the first seven Wizardry titles.
While an Amiga programmer is credited in-game, an Amiga version was never released.
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