Get those old Amiga games working! - The Bard's Tale

Here is something I found on comp.sys.amiga.games which may be useful:

Here is short descriptions of how I installed both Bard's Tale 1 and Bard's Tale 2 to my harddrive. In BT1 I had to use Dave Haynie's program 'DiskSalv'. It worked ok with the ancient 1.42 version, and it will probably work just as well with version 11.32 which can be found on AmiNet (/disk/salv/DiskSalv11_32.lha). Good luck!

BARD'S TALE 1

> makedir Games:BT1

insert disk "BardsTale:" in df0:


> disksalv from df0: to Games:BT1

> cd Games:BT1

> protect c/bardstale.dat add rwed

> makedir save

insert disk "Bards Tale character disk:" in df0:


> copy df0: save/ all

edit s/startup-sequence to look like this:


 assign BardsTale: ""
 assign "Bards Tale character disk:" save
 assign libs: libs
 assign fonts: fonts
 c/bardstale.dat

reset, then boot without startup-sequence ( for some obscure reason, I get a 'Stack overflow' error requester if I try to start the game after running anything else.) Don't know what to do on A3000.


> cd Games:BT1
> execute s/startup-sequence

Bard's Tale should now be running from HD BARD'S TALE 2

> makedir Games:BT2

insert disk "BardsTale:" in df0:


> copy df0: Games:BT2/ all

> cd Games:BT2

> makedir save

insert disk "Destiny Knight character disk:" in df0:


> copy df0: save/ all

edit s/startup-sequence to look like this:


 assign BardsDK: ""
 assign "Destiny Knight character disk:" save
 assign libs: libs
 assign fonts: fonts
 run sys:system/nofastmem
 bard

the game crashed after loading the party unless I used nofastmem, can't remember this happening before, but you could try to remove it and see if it works on your amiga. reset, then boot without startup-sequence ( for some obscure reason, I get a 'Stack overflow' error requester if I try to start the game after running anything else.) Don't know what to do on A3000.


> cd Games:BT2
> execute s/startup-sequence

Bard's Tale II should now be running from HD

Lars Haugseth <larshau@ifi.uio.no>