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

["Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com>]

Did they make a character editor for the Apple version of BT3?
Interesting...

I wonder if I would have the same problem transfering to the the 3.5"
disk version of BT3?  Probably...



On Oct 14, 3:56 am, heuser.mar...@freenet.de wrote:
> 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