*The Adventurers' Guild

ok, been having some fun with this... it's not finished yet, but I'll post what I have :) First, you should create a C:\Huffman folder with 2 .txt files and 1 .vbs file in it. The first .txt file should be named test.txt and can contain the text you want to encode wih Huffman. For my example, I took...

Ah, ok.. I get it now
interesting excersise... creating huffman files out of text files using vbscript. I'll have a look at it, but can't promise you anything.

Again, this might not be the best forum for it but it might be usefull if anyone wants to code their own maps.

Why would you code/decode a pac file?

So you need your proxy file coded with a Huffman tree?

Hi Tomas,

Not sure this forum is the right place for you.
What exactly do you need? Huffman compression/decompression or converting from txt to pac?

I have a script now to do that for me, so I don't mind :D Besides, dumping the memory in hex format allows me to copy it in a hex editor and makes searching through it a bit easier. I haven't been able to find the table directly in bard.exe as that is jumpled by the compression and I can't decompres...

Yeah, that's what I did, but I get the message that the pygame module can't be loaded

Forgive a complete noob, but how do I run this?
I downloaded python-2.7.msi and pygame 1.9.1release
I installed python. Do I also have to install pygame?
How do I run bard.py?

Don't know anything about Python, sorry

I'm just mainly trying to satisfy my curiousity... maybe even convert a self-made picture into a bardstale picture and changing the looks of the houses, dungeon walls,...
colors are the least of my concerns

1. enter the city with my party. 2. press 'z' a few times to get a golem with 30+ hp 3. kill samurai 4. back to guild. rinse and repeat... 170 exp per kill You can also do this with only 1 char, if you want to power level a specific new class... just over 1k exp per kill If you have a caster already...

just a quick intermediate: 74 28 7F 28 8A 28 94 28 A0 28 AC 28 BA 28 C7 28 D4 28 DC 28 E9 28 F3 28 FE 28 0A 29 18 29 28 29 33 29 41 29 4E 29 5D 29 68 29 75 29 82 29 8F 29 9A 29 A2 29 B2 29 BF 29 CE 29 D7 29 E1 29 EC 29 FB 29 0B 2A 1E 2A 2B 2A 38 2A 45 2A 50 2A 5A 2A 66 2A 77 2A 88 2A 98 2A AA 2A B9 ...

If you ever need to remove the high order bit on a serie of hexadecimals, you can use this script (i'm on a roll!): Dim objFSO, objTextFile, objHexFile Dim strCharacter, strReplaced Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objHexFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile ("C:\Huffm...

Ok, I managed to modify my header: 42 4D 75 13 00 00 00 00 00 00 36 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 70 00 00 00 58 00 00 00 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 13 0B 00 00 13 0B 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Here, I can just add the decoded B2.HUF and then I get my image. No need anymore to translate the decod...

Well, I decoded B2.HUF and was able to create a bmp out of it. However: - B2.HUF seems to use 1 nibble per pixel, so every byte contains 2 pixels. - my .bmp is upside-down and mirrored. - this is my .bmp header: 42 4D B5 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 36 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 70 00 00 00 58 00 00 00 01 00 18 0...

Hi Silverbird, What game file did you download? If you want to run the game on a win98, I don't know you even need an emulator. Is there no option in Windows98 to restart the PC in DOS mode? If so, you should download the PC version and copy it to C:\bard. Then quit to DOS, run the setup in the C:\b...