Re: Transferring Characters From Bard's Tale II (IIgs) to Bard's Tale III (IIe)

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

Tempest wrote:
> I've come to the conclusion that this is indeed impossible.  I used the
> IIgs version of BT2 to copy the character disk from a 3.5" disk to a
> 5.25" disk, and BT3 actually recognized it but all it saw was some
> garbage characters with weird stats.  I guess the IIgs version stores
> the data in a different format.  Odd considering Bill did both games...
>
>
> On Oct 13, 12:03 am, "Tempest" <temp...@atariprotos.com> wrote:
> > Is it possible to transfer characters from Bard's Tale II on the IIgs
> > to Bard's Tale III on the Apple IIe?  I loaded up BT3 on the IIgs and
> > told it to transfer the characters, but it didn't seem to recognize the
> > BT2 character disk.  Are the two incompatible?


Another, slightly more tedious way could be to rebuild your characters
with a character editor - in several issues of Hardcore Computist are
info tables and even complete programs to do this.

There's little about BT2 but a lot about BT3:

Infos: Issue 59 (p18,20,36), 61 (p32&33), 62 (p20) and several in issue
72.

Editor: Issue 64 (p 28) and errata in 66 (p7).

This method has the advantage of giving your party a monetary push as
well ;o)

bye
Marcus