*The Adventurers' Guild

Why did you exclude the 2 songs from BT III?

I thought I'd post another anecdote about how monsters work in BTII on the C64... So each monster has four different attack options to pick from for any given round, 1 through 4. It's an even chance (25%) for all 4. Did you know that monster have access to every single spell that players do, with th...

Just for information's sake, the max HP of the Balder Guard and Lagoth Zanta is incorrect.

Balder Guard HP: 511-2174
Lagoth Zanta HP: 1279-4990

So, just another piece of BTII trivia I've stumbled upon... Special events in the game can override a monster's stats. Case in point being Lagoth Zanta. A side by side comparison of the stat values found in the file vs how they appear in memory (i.e. when the final battle is underway) is as follows:...

Just for trivia's sake, there is a monster that outdoes the Balder Guard. It's "Dexter", who is found on Destiny Stone level 2. He's worth 41088 XP. He appears in a group of...one. He melee attacks 75% of the time, and breathes at the party the other 25%. His melee attack turns characters ...

In case anyone cares, on the C64 version each Balder Guard killed is worth a ridiculous 27,776 XP each. Given that in the battle where you encounter them you have to kill 60 of these stupid things, that means a party will earn 1,666,650 XP from the final fight in the game. Sadly, the C64 caps combat...

I occasionally - very occasionally - become motivated to attempt a project that I have little to no experience in doing. Why? I don't know, exactly. Boredom, I suppose. Waiting on employment. Having too much time throughout the day. I have always been somewhat passionate about Bard's Tale on the Com...

To HELL with ML programming.

Here's my latest posting on the Lemon64 forums demonstrating the issue at hand:
https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=79708

I corrected the "corruption" seen in the screenshots earlier prior to encountering this latest "hiccup". It was a missing CLC instruction someplace. Man, I just don't know. I went over the section of code for literal HOURS, the code that extracts the monster name, filters out the...

And just like that, my patience level fell through the floor and I quit this project.

To ensure I never return to it, I destroyed every single file off my hard drive, including all 3 BT games.

So what did I learn? That 6502 assembly language is bullshit.

BASIC is superior in every way.

I think I've isolated the problem with it hanging up after so many entries... When it reads in the "Forest Giant" name, I neglected to account for the character that the game code uses to represent a (shifted) space in the text (i.e. A0). I think this is causing it to go haywire. I think I...

Some progress towards making my C64 BTII Overworld Monster Editor program... First, the intro screen. https://i.imgur.com/5ttByLl.png The border is cycling through colors at warp speed, gently reminding the user to hit RETURN after they've inserted the CHARACTER disk. It even has a rudimentary error...

I have adopted a brush. His name is Henry.

I discovered that FF loads a blank image; i.e. "Wall".