9/1/01 I finished this month's editorial.
7/9/01 I added a month's worth of names to the roster on the main page.
6/2/01 I added the June 2001 Editorial. Mike O'Hara reviewed RuneScape.
5/1/01 I added the May 2001 Editorial on DarkBASIC, and added ten more names to the roster on the main page.
3/21/01 I fixed many lower/upper case problems that were causing many "File Not Found" problems. Nothing I love more than a CASE SENSITIVE web server! I also uploaded all of the WAV files. Everything should be working now. If you find any broken links, please let me know, okay? I'm talking to you.
3/19/01 I updated all links to the Adventurer's Guild to Tom's new domain. There were about 12 old bad links across my domain...
3/17/01 I created a customized error page for files that cannot be found. Try typing an a random address on my domain and watch what happens!!!
3/16/01 I moved the other half of the webpage to the new server.
3/14/01 I moved half of the webpage to the new server. You may find many broken links at this time. The rest should be done in a day or two.
3/13/01 I signed up for web hosting with EsoSoft. This page will be moving in the next couple of days...
2/28/01 I added 11 more names to the front page roll-call section and answered E-Mails. Then I ... went to bed.
1/30/01 SchwarzeneggerC sent me some tips that I added to the Bard's Tale 3 Unterbrae walkthrough section.
1/17/01 I added information about running The Bard's Tale 2 on the Apple II GS Emulator in the January 2001 editorial.
1/15/01 I put up the first draft of the January 2001 editorial. I'm going to have to actually try this out and update the editorial, to make sure that I have all of the information correctly in place.
12/10/00 I finished the December 2000 Editorial - pretty late, huh?
11/1/00 The November 2000 editorial is up.
10/23/00 Mike O'Hara and I have been working side by side (literally) to finish the Bard's Tale 1 Click Through. Do check it out!!!
10/1/00 I completed this month's editorial on the Catacombs, Level 2.
9/23/00 I finished adding Malefia to Mike O'Hara's Bard's Tale 3 Click-Through. This one even includes the ending to the game - check it out!
9/22/00 I answered several E-Mails, and added some extra monster information sent in by César Segura Laborda.
9/17/00 I fixed all of the broken image links in the Bard's Tale 2 and 3 dungeons.
9/16/00 I fixed all of the broken image links in the Bard's Tale 1 dungeons.
9/4/00 Mike O'Hara sent me more maps for the BT3 Clickthrough. I made the HTML for them, and posted them all. Now, we're up to Tarmitia. Next week, look for Malefia!
8/31/00 I posted the September editorial.
7/31/00 I posted the August editorial.
6/30/00 I posted the July editorial.
6/3/00 I updated the FAQ section.
5/31/00 I posted the June Editorial.
5/16/00 I added The Great Nigel to the city of Skara Brae. Visit it to hear amazing PC songs transposed to MIDI files!!!
5/2/00 ... or maybe the next day!!! May's Editorial is online. Andrew Lin created a MIDI version of "Seeker's Ballad" which is playing from the main page.
5/1/00 During the month of April, I scanned in the entire Bard's Tale 1 Cluebook. It's now online! Today I also added Paul Mayer's character named "Shredder" to the Bard's Tale 1 Character Roster. This month's editorial will be up later today.
3/31/00 I added April's Editorial on Ray Casting, Sure, it's a day early, but I'm going on vacation on the first of the month, so I have to do it now...
3/16/00 I made a new page that let's people add their name and webpage to the main page of BardsTale.com.
3/5/00 I made a home page for Mike O'Hara's Bard's Tale III Maps. Let's see, I also - no, that's about it. The Bard's Tale 1 and 3 Cluebook are coming soon...
2/24/00 I added more LoneStar2's BT 1 characters, as well as Don Pike's BT 2 characters. Nathan Jachimiec also sent me some BT3 files that he made! Check them out at the Scrapwood Tavern!
2/13/00 I added LoneStar2's BT 1 character, "Judis Preist". Mike O'Hara is working on a clickable version of Bard's Tale III. You can get a sneak peak of it by clicking here!
2/11/00 I added scanned images of the NES manual to our online manual. I did tons of housecleaning, like deleting junk, making my main folders non-viewable at the root level, and organizing things into better folders.
1/31/00 I added this month's editorial, which is an interview with none other that "Burger" Bill, creator and programmer of The Bard's Tale III, Thief of Fate!
1/29/00 I added Philippi, Dargoth's Tower, the Warmongers Inn, and the Redpoint Inn. There are now have links in every Inn for every Bard's Tale II WAV file that I have. There are no mare Bard's Tale I or II cities or dungeons for me to create - I have only to finish my Bard's Tale III stuff! As a bit of housecleaning, I updated map locations for the Maze of Dread and Oscon's Fortress. I also noticed that all WAV files I linked to did not work under Netscape because I had the slashes the wrong way. I fixed all eight of them in BT2 land.
1/24/00 I added Mike O'Hara's Bard's Tale History.
12/31/99 I finished the January 2000 Updates (new pictures and editorial) for BardsTale.com. I also added the Screen Saver Shack in Corinth, as a place to host the new BardsTale.com Windows Screen Saver (complete with source code!) called "Monster Roster".
12/29/99 I created a new MIDI file which is a remix of the original Bard's Tale I Intro song. Check it out!
12/25/99 Markus E-Mailed me his maps and hints for Bards Tale 3. I turned them into HTML and put them online - Merry Christmas!
12/16/99 I added Ask Y' Mother Inn to Skara Brae, and with it, the chance to win www.BardsTale.com for an entire week!
12/8/99 I added Colosse, and with it, the Destiy Stone, the Lazy Dragon Inn (with Sanctuary Score), and the Adventurers' Guild.
12/1/99 I introduced three new Bard's Tale web sites in December's Editorial.
11/1/99 I wrote the November Editorial.
10/9/99 I completed Gelidia, and with it, the Outpost and the Ice Keep.
10/5/99 I patched up a broken link in Fanskar's Fortress.
10/1/99 I finished the October editorial, which is about running The Bard's Tale on the AppleWin emulator.
9/24/99 I completed the Sage's Hut by adding Lagoth Zanta, and the Destiny Knight Ending!
9/23/99 I added the Luckshield to the Sage's Item List
9/18/99 This weekend, I had the house to myself, and finished another Bard's Tale MIDI file. This one is called Rhyme of Duotime, and is from The Bard's Tale 2.
9/11/99 I added the Destiny Knight Credits to the city of Ephesus.
9/1/99 The Sage's Hut is online, as well as this month's editorial.
8/30/99 I started building the Sage's Hut, and collecting his quotations.
8/25/99 I added the Bard's Tale 3 compass to the BT3 screens.
8/22/99 I recreated the Dark Domain maps page.
8/20/99 I recreated the Tombs web page, because the old one pointed to a great page that doesn't exist anymore.
8/16/99 I updated all my Adventurers' Guild links to the new AG page.
8/15/99 For the last month or so, I've been scanning in the Bard's Tale 2 Cluebook. Well, it's finally finished - complete with a Table of Contents!
8/7/99 I have completed Arboria in Bard's Tale III! With it comes the Hic Haven, Valarian's Tower, the Crystal Palace, the Festering Pit, the Fisherman's Hut (with a special treat for those of you running Microsoft IE), and the Sacred Grove.
8/6/99 The Benevolent Magus created more NES screen shots, as well as maps of the Catacombs Level 3, and Harkyn's Castle Level 1.
8/3/99 The Icon Kingdom has been added to Corinth, and with it, 12 new Bard's Tale icons! Added the NES Catacombs Level 2 map, and 2 more NES screen shots from The Benevolent Magus.
8/2/99 The Benevolent Magus made some more NES maps and screen prints, and I posted them in Skara Brae. So many, in fact, that we now have 2 buildings for NES material, both at the bottom of Skara Brae.
8/1/99 I wrote this months editorial, and added the Benevolent Magus to the South East corner of Skara Brae. Go there to see the entire typed manual for the Nintendo Version of The Bard's Tale, as well as many screen shots from the game!
7/30/99 I converted the NES Manual to HTML.
7/29/99 The Benevolent Magus typed the NES Bard's Tale Manual.
7/24/99 I have finished The Watchwood Melody MIDI - Whu Hoo! Click here if you'd like to download it.
7/18/99 I completed my first MIDI rendition of "The Watchwood Melody", and added it to the Main Page. Click here if you'd like to download it.
7/15/99 I added the City of Corinth, Oscon's Fortress, and the Zen Tavern. The Tavern has a link to another Bard's Tale song, and some information about a BardsTale.com exclusive: an upcoming Bard's Tale Screensaver.
7/1/99 I finished this months editorial on running the Bard's Tale on a Nintendo Emulator.
6/5/99 I finished this months editorial on C64 Emulators, and made a main screen to navigate between all the editorials.
5/27/99 I put the finishing touches on Bard's Tale 1 by adding Kylearan's Tower and Mangar's Tower.
5/20/99 I finially finished updating the Bard's Tale Character Editor. You can use it now to edit Bard's Tale 1, 2, and 3 characters, and it's in an easy-to-use MDI format, just like Microsoft Word.
5/17/99 Added the Bard's Tale 1 and 3 Intro Songs from the C64 in MP3 format. You can find them at the BT1 Guld, and in The Ruins.
5/13/99 Thessalonica has been added, and along with it, the Maze of Dread, the Icon Palace, and the Bone Breaker Inn.
5/7/99 I added Arboria, Cierra Brannia, and the Kings Court.
5/1/99 Wrote this month's editorial on editing Bard's Tale characters.
4/25/99 Added the Tarjan's Temple and Underbrae to the Ruins of Skara Brae.
4/17/99 Built Harkyn's Castle.
4/14/99 Redid the Review Board Graphics with the Review Board from BT1 instead of the ones I used from BT2. I added eleven new BT1 characters, provided by Don Pike.
4/10/99 Added the Review Board - and they're looking for a Bard's Tale Guru. Fill out an application, and if you win, you'll be immortalized forever as the Bard's Tale Guru!
4/8/99 I posted our first version of the Offial Bard's Tale Character editor from BardsTale.com! Look for Roscoe's Energy Emporium in Skara Brae, and Roscoe will tell you how to get your hands on the download.
4/3/99 Wrote April 99's Editorial entitled "Greetings from the Webmaster."
3/28/99 We put in 2 more inns in the BT2 realm - The Zinskae Inn in Ephesus, and the Zandurae Inn in Tangramayne. In the 2 Inns are 2 more Bard's Tale WAV files: the Watchwood Melody and the Spellsong. I changed the graphics for the Bard's Tale 2 Adventurer's Guild from the IBM version to the C64 version.
3/20/99 Added the Scarlet Bard, with maps and hints for the Wine Cellar and the Sewers from Jeremy Gaudet's Bard's Tale Info Page.
3/15/99 Added a new Monthly banner, as well as Kazdek's Hut.
3/11/99 Added the city of Ephesus, and the Tombs. I got a new font called for my city names that looks much more Bard like.
3/6/99 Added Tom Greene's BT1 Archmage Characters (Al, Bill, Chris, Dan, Ed, and Fred) to the Bard's Tale 1 Roster.
3/4/99 Added Bryon Breeden's DragonStar Bard Character to the Bard's Tale 1 Roster. He's now available for download.
3/2/99 We added the Greater gods temple and the Temple of the Mad God to Skara Brae in BT1.
2/28/99 Redesigned the Front Page.
2/13/99 Garth came in to Haunt his old Storage Building in the Ruins of Skara Brae.
2/11/99 I added the Ruins of Skara Brae in the BT3 Wilderness.
2/10/99 I redesigned the transportation between the lands of BT 1, 2, and 3. Now, you can get between the games from within each land's own guild (or the Ruins, in BT3). I added the Ruins, Scrapwood Tavern, and Wilderness for Bard's Tale 3.
2/6/99 I added the Stables and the Credits building to Skara Brae.
2/1/99 I added the Bard's Tale 2 Intro Music link to the Guild in Tangramayne.
1/31/99 I added Skara Brae, BTI Guild, a new BTI character, the BTII Wilderness, the Grey Crypt, Fanskar's Fortress, and Bard's Song #1 at the Scrapwood Inn. Phew, what a weekend!
1/29/99 I recorded all of the Bards Tale II songs and posted them on the site as WAV files. You can hear the songs at the inns. Only one inn is up yet, but more will come soon.
1/22/99 Added Garth's Equipment Shoppe, and Garths Mother-In-Law. Inside of Garth's, there's a link to Cheek's Item List.
1/21/99 Added the Ogre picture, and made a nicer Start Page.
1/18/99 I added the Nutty Magician. He lives in the Pink House. Do stop by!
1/17/99 I got my Commodore 64 Emulator working, so I started getting graphics off of that. I made the Mage, and finished the building that has the Starter Dungeon. I added a link to TCBTHP's Starter Dungeon maps inside of it.
1/16/99 Added the Men's Room to Tangramayne
1/13/99 Added the City of Tangramayne Map
1/3/99 I made 4 of the 5 visible spell graphics, and saved them as Animated GIFs. Not the kind of GIFs that Monica had to give back to Bill, though.
1/1/99 The site is officially up!