What was the name of this game?

[Azred]

Originally posted by The Kiwi: I had the feeling (not really a memory, just a vague shadow of a memory) that Bard's Tale was out first for the C64, second for the IBM-PC/ Compatibles, and only a distant third for Amiga. But whatever you played them on, I & III were loads of fun, and II was just a silly runaround. The K.

Absolutely! BT1 came out in 1985 for C64 and immediately won "Game of the Year"; they adapted it for IBM to cash in on that market.

BT2 was pretty cheesy. Those "death snares" would kill your whole party if you didn't complete them in a certain amount of time. Game over. [img]graemlins/verysad.gif[/img]

BT3 was excellent! Trying to map Malefia was a roayl pain, though.

[The Kiwi]

Originally posted by Azred:Absolutely! BT1 came out in 1985 for C64 and immediately won "Game of the Year"; they adapted it for IBM to cash in on that market. [/qb]

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It's entirely possible that BT-1 was part of my reason to get a second computer when that game was new. IBM's awful "CGA" graphics was appallingly bad for any graphics, although Hercules' MGC was decent (I played Star Flight in green on black). My first desktop was an IBM, in 1983. The C64 was acquired later, perhaps as late as 1985 (money was hard to come by then, and the IBM cost so much I had to finance it in installments).

The C64 was a complete setup, slightly used, and included a Hayes modem with a list price back then higher than I paid for everything. My first modem, only "300 baud". That was the beginning of my addiction to the online world (FIDO was starting up about that time).

K.
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[ 05-27-2002, 03:19 AM: Message edited by: The Kiwi ]

[Barenziahlover]

Well my first computer was than ZX-81 by timex with 16 k of memory and
a tape drive unit. My second computer was than C-64 and my third computer
was than amiga 500 and when my mortor went bad I has to make do with
Windows than inferious operation system. My WindowMe OS have over 4700 files than take up about 500 meg of harddrive space.

[/)eathKiller]

Yeah I remember that game that R0x0red!

Let's hear it for the AMIGA!!

They aughta come out with a new one of those,
instantly burns CD RWs and lets you trade games wiht your freinds ^_^;

[Jorath Calar]

Can someone help me with the Krynn games, how do you get them to work? I finally fixed the problem with the savegames and then it asked a "protection question" but no matter how right I answered (from the manual) it wouldn't start... has anyone been able to run them in their "abandoend form"?

[Azred]

Originally posted by Jorath Calar: Can someone help me with the Krynn games, how do you get them to work? I finally fixed the problem with the savegames and then it asked a "protection question" but no matter how right I answered (from the manual) it wouldn't start... has anyone been able to run them in their "abandoend form"?

Do you mean the old gold-box games Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn, and Queen of Darkness?

I've got them but haven't installed them. I'll take a look this evening and see what I can find; I might even still have a manual for them, buried in some box. [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] I think I know where, but I'll have to check later today.

Now where did I put that Solamnic Plate?

[Daniel]

Originally posted by Jorath Calar: Can someone help me with the Krynn games, how do you get them to work? I finally fixed the problem with the savegames and then it asked a "protection question" but no matter how right I answered (from the manual) it wouldn't start... has anyone been able to run them in their "abandoend form"?

I have, can I ask where you got them from? if you used Azred's link to Freeoldies and then downloaded from clasic trash I noticed the manuals are a bit wrong there, they seem to be a marked up a page wrong If it asks you to find somthing on page 10 then it will be on page 9 and so on

[Jorath Calar]

I got them from Abandonkeep.

They got the old Worms...ohh classic... me and my brother played it when he was 3 or 4 and we just downloaded it and played it... and he is 10 years old now and he still remembered the horrendous Alt + F5 cheat, the little rascal... [img]smile.gif[/img]