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During the 2015 Kickstarter campaign for the fourth main installment to the series, inXile partnered with Rebecca Heineman and her company Olde Sküül to remaster the original trilogy for modern personal computers running Mac OS and Microsoft Windows (instead of the emulated versions offered by inXile). by Chaney » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:16 pm, Post You have the skill to design your own.

Use Merlin and Omar for distance attacks, which can be achieved with some of the 85 spells available to them.

And they're nicely animated what's more. Useful links by Darendor » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:13 pm, Post In 1988, Electronic Arts, Inc. publishes The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight on DOS.

Equip your men well. Loading times from disk are acceptable (don't even try to play it from cassette though) and the lack of RPGs for the Amstrad could make this game worthwhile for die-hard Amstrad fans.

Bard's Tale is a game you can master.

0 point. And the sound is quite bad. [18] Scorpia later called the game "without a doubt, the worst of the series",[19][20] but the magazine's Charles Ardai called it "a fine sequel to Bard's Tale".

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by Saxon1974 » Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:12 am, Post

Selecting Drive 2, Slot 1 should work if you have inserted both disks in your emulator. It is a very difficult and challenging game, and it requires great intestinal fortitude", and suggested that beginning adventurers avoid it. In real life, a character's race is determined by their parents' genetics. [22], The game was reviewed in 1987 in Dragon #120 by Hartley and Patricia Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. There are also lots of new spells and Bard songs, plus a variety of fresh monsters and a special character class, the ArchMage. Apple II IIGS SCSI Card In 1988, Electronic Arts, Inc. publishes The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight on DOS. The music is rather good for the mid 80's.

[16] When ready, a party can venture into a dungeon to explore, fight monsters, and gain the experience needed to advance levels and become powerful enough to complete their quest. But nevertheless its the worst looking and slowest version. [25] After reaching an impasse in development, Olde Sküül and inXile agreed to transfer the project to Krome Studios.[26]. Fellow retro gamers also downloaded these games: Terms However, the snares were considered excessively tedious, and the gameplay skewed heavily in favor of mages.

Roscoe's Energy Emporium is another useful stop, where spell casters can pay an exorbitant fee to have spell units restored.

For example, instead of only one large city (Skara Brae), there are now six somewhat smaller towns: Colosse, Corinth, Ephesus, Philippi, Tangramayne, and Thessalonica.

Enough of my ramblings...Welcome aboard!

Current Apple IIGS related Auctions Listed By Time Left: Vintage Software Apple II IIe IIc IIgs RUSSIA The Great War in the East, LEGO TC Logo - Super Rare DACTA - APPLE IIe & IIgs - Interface Card & Cable 9767, Apple ADB Touchpad Mouse Mice Replacement for G5431 m1042 M2706 A9M0331 IIGS IIe, Phonics Prime Time 1.0 by MECC for Apple II+, Apple IIe, Apple IIc, Apple IIGS, Sound Tracks 1.0 by MECC for Apple II+, Apple IIe, Apple IIc, Apple IIGS. On the title screen, hold down shift, control, option, open apple, 'b'. [9], In addition, there are now "Death Snare Puzzle Rooms" that have real-time time limits in the seven dungeons. I would recommend staying indoors through night if you are beginning, because some of the fiercer creatures come out at night. The gameplay is a bit slower due to the gamepad control. Contact There are "unmarked buildings" that contain little except a possible monster encounter or the entryway to a dungeon or castle. Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like. A wizard named Saradon, having heard the news of your victory over the evil wizard Mangar (in The Bard's Tale), contacts you with dire news: "Lawless mercenaries from the neighboring kingdom of Lestradae ... under the guidance of an evil Archmage known as Lagoth Zanta" have stolen the Destiny Wand, that, through its power, "has maintained peace and prosperity for the last 700 years".[2]. Hello everyone.

Im new here and decided to register so I could share some info. ), designed and programmed by Michael Cranford.

I wasn't able to run this version on an emulator and have no further info about it.

Roscoe's a cagey old mage who opened his chain of Energy Emporiums hoping to cash in on the sorceral energy crisis of '27. [21] RUN magazine reviewer Bob Guerra praised the game's new enemies and their corresponding animations and stated the game "offers an irresistible challenge to all fans of role-playing fantasies. Contribute The world is a larger scale than The Bard's Tale. Why the amiga version first bardstale not available i want to download for my android emulater. When you click on 'Start the Bard's Tale' the game will ask which drive the character disk is in.

Interplay went to great lengths for the player to listen to the Bard's music like never before, recording MIDI instruments to reproduce the Bard's tunes beautifully. When you begin, your party will be very weak in terms of attack and defensive power and the fire horn will kill every monster in sight if you're losing a particular fight. The game became somewhat infamous for its high difficulty level. Various files to help you run The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight, apply patches, fixes, maps or miscellaneous utilities.

The big plus of the MS-DOS version are the non-existing loading times, making gameplay faster than in any other version. [1] Later observations of the game were more mixed. [13] Empty character slots can also be filled with players or creatures through random encounters, spells, or the use of figurines.

Cranford acknowledged this in interviews[which?

The gameplay, puzzles and dungeons of the homecomputer versions all resemble the shrined PC-Version. If the manual is missing and you own the original manual, please contact us! Although the "same interface and graphic display as the original game" (The Bard's Tale) are used in The Bard's Tale II,[9] there are some noticeable changes. •Contact Maintainer. OK, it lacks the smooth scrolling of the Apple II version, but it has many more monster pictures and they are animated as well.

), Download the manual in PDF format (13453k), Download the solution in PDF format (5605k). I remember never using Bard songs only because that would have brought the PC-Speaker in action. An excellent version in all aspects. Michael Cranford, a devout Christian, named five of the cities in the game after cities mentioned in the New Testament: Corinth, Colosse, Philippi, Ephesus, and Thessalonica.

Also this is the only 8-bit version that features semi-scrolling movement in the town. LEGO TC Logo - Super Rare DACTA - APPLE IIe & IIgs - Interface Card & Cable 9767 2017-06-12 [15] And when ready, characters can visit the Review Board to advance levels and magic users can change character class. [i.imgur.com] Music is nice on all machines, listen to my comparison of bard songs. [16], The Bard's Tale II entered the gaming field strongly, winning the Origins Award for Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Computer Game of 1986. I found a great II GS Emulator (KEGS) that uses Active X and runs in a small window you can get it here for free. Gold will buy you most things. by Saxon1974 » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:59 am, Post Continuity was ensured with the feel of the original with 'Burger' Becky Heineman programming the sequel. All rights reserved. Games such as these need to be on the market more. by Saxon1974 » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:18 pm, Post

About Bard's Tale Versions. by dragonbait » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:34 pm, Post

Additional new features include banks (where players can store money that will be available even if the party is defeated and the game is restarted), and casinos where players can try their luck at a blackjack-like game (not implemented in the PC version). I think this might be the definitive version of Destiny Knight.

The magazine described the game as one "for the true adventure gamer. The game makes good use of the C64's color palette, although the game feels still a bit too dark - a small stain of all the 8-bit homecomputer versions.

by dragonbait » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:14 pm, Post Gain gold and experience, map the dungeons and find the clues to enable you to pass the Snare of Death(s), puzzle rooms each holding a piece of the destiny wand.

The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight is a fantasy role-playing video game created by Interplay Productions in 1986. Current Apple IIGS related Auctions Listed By Time Left: Vintage Software Apple II IIe IIc IIgs RUSSIA The Great War in the East, LEGO TC Logo - Super Rare DACTA - APPLE IIe & IIgs - Interface Card & Cable 9767, Apple ADB Touchpad Mouse Mice Replacement for G5431 m1042 M2706 A9M0331 IIGS IIe, Phonics Prime Time 1.0 by MECC for Apple II+, Apple IIe, Apple IIc, Apple IIGS, Sound Tracks 1.0 by MECC for Apple II+, Apple IIe, Apple IIc, Apple IIGS. •RPGClassics Main The Destiny Knight The Bard's Tale II - Apple II+, IIe, IIc -Boxed with manual. Media Type: 3.5 Inch Floppy Disk: Published Year: 1987: Software Status: Freeware: Genre: Games, RPG: Publisher: Interplay Productions: Designer: Rebecca Heineman: Memory MobyGames.com, Larwin One of the better looking Apple II games although I personally don't like the color palette which tends to hurt my eyes. I spent a while making Bard's Tale I, II and III really nice on the IIgs. "Some puzzles involve typing in passwords learned in other areas of a maze, while others require you to follow specific patterns while traversing a dungeon. Differences in the homecomputer versions occur in the used graphic sets/layout. Have fun adventuring! The Bard's Tale was released for numerous different homecomputer systems and also made an appearance on the NES.

You could use similar story lines, actions, items, etc... BTIII was actually my favorite, and that is where she was the lead. I am not even sure if this is an official release or if the conversion was a fan project. The Bard's Tale plays from day to night.

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And your mages need spell points to fuel their power. Post by Freakachu » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:51 pm. -3 points

I had found a working character disk for the Apple IIGS a while back. You would have a hell of a player base if you made a game similar to BT. stated that Bard's Tale II "lives up to its predecessor's excellent reputation". For example, Scorpia of Computer Gaming World gave the game a mixed review. by dragonbait » Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:21 am, Post

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