Re: Rare IIgs Games

[helix@hunter.apana.org.au (Helix Energy)]

> > >      You left out one of the top pieces of IIgs vapor ware: Bard's
Tale III.
> > > Supposedly, it is still being held up by the lack of artwork.
> > 
> > I've seen both the Amiga and PC versions of Bard 3, and the graphics are
> > nowhere near the quality they were for the Bard 1 and 2.  Is the lack of
> > artwork due to the lack of quality? :-)
> >
> 
>      Probably not. The IIgs BT-3 seems to be a private project of
someone involved in
> the creation of the IIgs versions of BT-1 and BT-2 but not BT-3 for PC
or Amiga. So,
> it should be a much better game-- i.e. not mess up your characters when
you do a
> Class change, etc..
> 
>      On the other hand, the IIgs BT-3 developer would have no rights to
the artwork
> used in the PC and Amiga releases. Finding someone to produce decent
monster pics
> seems to be the main snag.

I'm assuming you're referring to Burger Bill as the developer.  How come
Brian Fargo didn't do the artwork for Bard 3, when he did the artwork for
Bard 1 and 2 AND Dragon Wars?

> > >      One game you list is Questron II/gs. Do you know if this is the later
> > > release version? The original release would trash hard disks-- i.e., I'm
> > pretty sure it would trash your hard disk even if you booted from the
diskette.
> > 
> > I'm afraid to say I don't know.  I'm aware of that particular bug when it
> > was reported in A+ magazine in 1987 or 88, but it was a limited run of the
> > game that had the bug and I couldn't believe that copies of that
> > particular version would still be floating around today.  But you're
> > right, its a bit of a risk.
>  ....
> 
>      The problem seems to crop up when saving game position and/or characters.
> Evidently, what happens is that, instead of writing to a specific named 'Save'
> volume, the program scans for a drive starting with (I think) Slot 7 and
does a
> direct block write on the first writeable device it finds.

I must admit, I haven't playtested Questron 2 past the demo it offers on
the main menu.  I could set up a dummy hard with Bernie ][ the Rescue and
see what happens when I try to save a game. I'll back to everyone on that.
 
> 
> Rubywand

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