*The Adventurers' Guild

You could try to identify the memory addresses of the character rosters in the CBM64 emulator, copy that bit of memory and "implant" it then into the disk version in emulator at the addresses used by it. I think I gave the memory address of character rosters for the disk version somewhere...

First of all, the characters are stored - or atleast saved - in a completely different way between tape and disk. The tapeversion stores the party as a unit while the diskversion stores it as individual characters (if I recall things correctly). You could ofcourse edit your characters - byte by byte...

I grew up with the C64 tape version of Bard's Tale. It's with that version that I developed my super high level characters. They really did an amazing job squeezing it all into memory. The best thing about it is that there are no IO delays during play on single level. That means that you can wander...

Just for your interest. I've started to look into the tape version of Bard's Tale (both the german and the english version), and so far i'm quite impressed - loads of things are recoded, loads of stuff have been compressed and loads of stuff have been altered. After some research, I got the release...

Correct - the tunes available in BT1 are: 1 Falkentyne's Fury This tune increases the damage your party will do in combat, berserker rage. 2 The Seeker's Ballad This song produces light when exploring, increases the chance of hitting a foe. 3 Wayland's Watch This song will soothe your foes, making t...

I'm with ZeroZero (Hi! Long time no see!) on this one. I'd say that this might be a miss in the code; somebody overlooked the option that the value for this variable may get more than 1 at some occation - my guess is the combination of Spellpoint-areas in the Castle in combination with the Mage Staf...

Just a note on the C-64 versions of BT1: * I have all three different original C-64 versions of BT1. They are stored as nibbled .G64 files. Let me know if you need them. * Most - if not all - the D64 versions of BT1 are cracked. Side A of BT1 is copyprotected (as I have mentioned elsewhere). A stand...

Concerning the jumptable and free space in memory: The different modules occupy different amount of space at different places and at different times. There is no way you can tell whether or not the memory is getting overwritten at one or another point in the game unless you set a breakpoint in Vice ...

1) We've concluded that my D64 images contain this bug, as does Saxon1974's. 2) Wha? :? 3) Mine are not decrypted. Ah, I see. And both of your images are the ones from Triangle? Well, you could always try your savedisk on the version from: * The Light Circle (http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=...

Let me see if I have understood this correctly? Have we: 1) Concluded that this error exists on all disks of the 8-bit versions based on the same code, Apple-II and C-64 alike? 2) Concluded that all versions of the original disks are backed up allready? 3) Concluded that the disks are Pirateslayer-e...

Actually, to backup a Pirateslayer protected disk (read: original BT2) you need to MNIB the disk (http://markus.brenner.de/mnib/). What fails in the above reasoning is that this have been done before concerning this original - several times in fact. I just fail to see what the use of backing up the ...

I agree. This is some amazing work by Tedious and ZeroZero. Since this graphics format has its roots on the Apple-II, dare I bet there is a common painting-program (as Koala Painter on the C-64) that handles the graphics data in the way described above, minus the animations. I guess I could try make...

It is to be checked, if this safe roll routine is used elsewhere, if yes, then this would mean, that the safe roll always is SAFE. If the damage routine itself failed, NO DAMAGE at all would ever be effected on any character, so that is NOT the reason. Doh. Ofcourse it is like you describe it above...

Heh - yes I recall reading about it going through the threads again, so I know you must've mentioned it? I don't think you offered it for download.

I actually found and bought "The Bard's Tale - Castle of Deception", by Mercedes Lackey & Josepha Sherman some weeks ago. Some elements seems to be picked from the games, but not many.