The Bard's Tale Compendium

Re: New Map of Skara Brae (Bard's Tale I) Uploaded

LesV — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:41:54 GMT

Cudos to you, Sir! I have just one question. If my memory serves me right, something happens on Sinister Street. It's a teleport, so you never reach the end of

Re: Please help!!!

buckykattrulez — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:55:28 GMT

I'd like to play a PC version but I'll take anything!!!

Re: Please help!!!

buckykattrulez — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:57:13 GMT

... Trying to play a PC version, but will take pretty much anything I can get.

Re: New Map of Skara Brae (Bard's Tale I) Uploaded

J. Alexander Jacocks — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:19:27 GMT

... Les, Yep, your memory is correct! I'll play around and see what I can do, to add this information, without confusing things. - Alex [Non-text portions of

Re: New Map of Skara Brae (Bard's Tale I) Uploaded

J. Alexander Jacocks — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:52:26 GMT

... I added a note to the map, and uploaded a v2 file...let me know what y'all think. - Alex

Re: Please help!!!

phasedoor — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:03:07 GMT

Well, if you want an easy point and click setup, you can download D-Fend Reloaded (A DOSBox front-end which comes prepackaged with DOSBox).

Re: Please help!!!

J. Alexander Jacocks — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:35:31 GMT

... And, if you happen to have a Mac, I suggest Boxer http://boxer.washboardabs.net/ as another good point-and-click DOSBox GUI. However, once you play Bard's

New Map of Sewers Level 1 (Bard's Tale I) Uploaded

Alexander — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:04:13 GMT

All, I've followed up the map I made of Skara Brae with one of the first level of the sewers. I also created one of the wine cellar, but I think that it needs

Re: Please help!!!

erik_w_anderson — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:25:52 GMT

... Can you tell us what you've tried? Do any of the links at the following site help? Run Classic DOS Games on your Computer

Re: Please help!!!

buckykattrulez — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:16:41 GMT

... Got it the front end set up Alex provided worked and I am up and running. Thanks to all who offered help.

Spells Lists and Maps

pimpywan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:24:08 GMT

I've recently downloaded the 3 Bard's Tale titles in MS-DOS format, but (after unzipping them) I could not find any files which listed the spells or provided a

Re: Spells Lists and Maps

Ignatz Mouse — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:53:50 GMT

Try this one: http://bardstale.brotherhood.de/talefiles/1/docs/index.html ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: Spells Lists and Maps

mentalspot — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:03:35 GMT

In general, try searching under bards tale instead of bards tale 3... I've got a pdf map and pdf manual sitting on my computer that I just downloaded off one

groups for BT2

Reg Esteban — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:55:34 GMT

What is a good group makeup for BT2? I currently have a Pal, Monk, Bard, and 3 magic users that are filled out. My adventurers are about level 25. Is that

Install BT1

Marc — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:31:12 GMT

I am running Dosbox trying to install Bards Tale 1. It is on a disk that has multiple RPG's on it. When I try to run the install portion is where I run into a