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by Caracas
Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:58 pm
Forum: Tales of the Unknown
Topic: bard songs
Replies: 6
Views: 6727

bard songs

This may be an old topic, but I never found anything about it:

when bards level up, do the effect of their songs increase?
It looks like a low level bard that plays that song that lowers AC has a -1 bonus in the beginning and now I seem to be at -3 AC bonus (lvl 23 bard)
by Caracas
Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:43 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: learn to program
Replies: 10
Views: 8997

I've been looking into VB 2010 the past few days. I had a lot of fun while writing this: http://www.file-upload.net/download-4038280/2D_dungeon.exe.html not much yet, but it's a start :lol: ow... since it's written in vb 2010, you'll need .NET 4.0 :roll: EDIT: I should also mention that you can move...
by Caracas
Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:02 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: learn to program
Replies: 10
Views: 8997

I'm certainly self-educating. If I have to follow a beginners course, things will move to slow for me and I'll get terribly bored. If I follow a course for more advanced users, I'll miss a lot of basic knowledge and won't be able to follow and get bored too :) I very much like learning things at my ...
by Caracas
Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:53 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: learn to program
Replies: 10
Views: 8997

LOL! With great determination and motivation I set out this morning to download and install Visual Basic 2010 Express, determined to create my own calculator...

Big disappointment tbh, way to easy... I guess I have to be a bit more ambitious when programming VB.
by Caracas
Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:36 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: learn to program
Replies: 10
Views: 8997

Why do easy questions alway have difficult answers? :) You're right ofcourse, Maven. When looking around on the internet, I pretty much run into the same questions. I guess I just need something to satisfy my curiosity. At this point, this may very well be creating a small calculator, or some GUI fo...
by Caracas
Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:28 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: learn to program
Replies: 10
Views: 8997

Thanks for the suggestion.
Personaly, I seem to prefer VB 2010 and C#4.0
by Caracas
Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:49 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: learn to program
Replies: 10
Views: 8997

learn to program

Any programmers out there? I find myself interested in learning a programming language, besides vbscript which I know a little already... What programming languages are being used these days? c++,c#,java? I can have access to the latest tools to learn almost any language. I just need to decide which...
by Caracas
Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:11 pm
Forum: Developer's Heaven
Topic: Item & Monster Specs
Replies: 95
Views: 76429

A question about monks: on the first page of this thread, Maven gave an overview of the items and the damage that weapons do. Is there any data on the damage that monks do with no weapons equiped (i.e. dice rols) and how this increases when they level up? I understand how their DEX increases their c...
by Caracas
Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:48 am
Forum: Developer's Heaven
Topic: Item & Monster Specs
Replies: 95
Views: 76429

That is awesome stuff! where did you get that? So for calculating the prices, I assume you have to do the following: 28h 00101000 5*10^0=5 78h 01111000 15*10^0=15 41h 01000001 8*10^1=80 19h 00011001 3*10^1=30 11h 00010001 2*10^1=20 39h 00111001 7*10^1=70 12h 00010010 2*10^2=200 ... Interesting to kn...
by Caracas
Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:46 am
Forum: Developer's Heaven
Topic: msdos dissasembly
Replies: 101
Views: 82399

Sell all the halbards and plate armor and buy shiny stuff at Garths :)

I hadn't noticed that yet on the samurai statue and I killed quite a few when leveling up chars... I'll keep an eye on it as well.
I assume this is the DOS version, right?
by Caracas
Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:29 am
Forum: Developer's Heaven
Topic: Item & Monster Specs
Replies: 95
Views: 76429

I had been looking at that as well.
First I thought that if the high order bit was set, the item didn't have to be equiped in order to use it.
quick tests showed that this is not the case.
It might be that it has no meaning at all. Maybe it is something left over from other versions.
by Caracas
Tue Jan 03, 2012 2:31 pm
Forum: Developer's Heaven
Topic: msdos dissasembly
Replies: 101
Views: 82399

Just adding this info here, though it's not related to any of the previous... at $26FE6 in the extracted bard.exe: E8 03 D0 07 A0 0F 58 1B 10 27 20 4E I believe this to be the cost of the spells in the review board. E8 03 is in fact 03 E8 which is 1000 D0 07 would be 07 D0 which is 2000 A0 0F would ...
by Caracas
Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:05 am
Forum: Bard's Tale Construction Set
Topic: BT 1 CBM64 roster file format
Replies: 47
Views: 42807

In the Items & Monster specs post in the developers heaven, there is an overview of the items and their specifications in the DOS version. The second column of the list contains the on use specifications This byte seems to contain info about who it affects (single target, group, self,...) and th...
by Caracas
Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:12 am
Forum: Developer's Heaven
Topic: Decode Bard's Tale Huffman files
Replies: 31
Views: 26862

And here's the script: Dim objFSO, objCodedFile, objTextFile Dim strCharacter Dim strHuffVal Dim strCount, tmpCount, tmpFreq1, tmpFreq2 Dim arrHuff(255) Dim arrHuffVal(255) Dim arrHuffChar(255) Dim arrHuffNewVal(255) Dim arrHuffLeftChild(255) Dim arrHuffRightChild(255) Dim arrHuffNewLeftChild(255) D...
by Caracas
Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:48 pm
Forum: Developer's Heaven
Topic: Decode Bard's Tale Huffman files
Replies: 31
Views: 26862

Succes! I managed to complete my script. It can now create a Huffman tree out of a txt file using vbscript :) When I launch my script on the example text I used above, I get the following result: SYMBOL WEIGHT HUFFMAN CODE 46 1 001110 72 1 001111 73 1 100010 84 1 100011 100 1 100110 114 1 100111 117...