*The Adventurers' Guild

Yeah it did kinda suck... but I was hooked on BT1 so it didn't stop me completing it. I didn't make any note of the time but it probably took me 1 to 2 years to complete. I ran a German tape image on the C64 emulator and was horrified to see that the scoll speed change function was present. Pressing...

I always liked the cover art painting of Bard's Tale. It really evokes the imagination of the Skara Brae and the Bard's Tale world. I used to look at the six characters in the painting and wonder what race and class they might be if they were a Bards Tale party. Looking at the picture, starting with...

I'm still in shock. I did have the manual, and even more signifcantly, reading and rereading and rereading the manual was my thing. Now that you have pointed it out, that line in the manual does ring a bell, and I now recall reading those instructions during my early playing, and trying to press the...

Is this so? There was a scroll speed facility in the C64 version of Bard's Tale? I never knew that! :shock: I had the C64 tape version, and must have logged hundreds of hours on it, completing it and then CONTINUING to defeat Mangar hundreds of times to get some seriously level'd up Paladins and Arc...