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From: Sullivan@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bards Tale I
Message-ID: <16652@cup.portal.com>
Date: 4 Apr 89 01:35:36 GMT
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>Has anyone had any experience running Bards Tale I from a hard disk 
>a multi-tasking (freindly) way?  I have made minor headway, in that I can
>do it from workbench, without rebooting, via an iconx script and a bunch
>of assigns.  The problems are many:
> 
>1) My assigns make other tasks very confused.

I've had BT 1 on harddisk for quite a while.  There isn't any need to
have the floppy game disk in your floppy drive.  To do so just slows
everything down... and doesn't let your assigns work.  

a.  Run decoder on the Bards tale disk.  (Among other places, it can be
    found on marauder disks.  If you don't have a copy then go to a 
    friends house and run it there.  I wouldn't use the origninal disk
    since decoder makes extensive changes.

b.  Diskcopy to rad:

c.  copy any fonts, libraries, etc. which aren't already on your harddisk
    in the appropriate directories to their correct places.  Delete them
    from rad: as you are going along.  

d.  copy any remaining files to the subdirectory you've set up for BT-1.

e.  Assign the floppy disk label to the subfile directory.  (ie: "Assign
    BardsTale: dh1:games/bt1")

f.  Run the program.  That's all there is to it...  Naturally you can 
    combine the assign and the run into an executable script if you like.
    usually it's also a good idea to read the "startup-sequence" from the
    original disk to see if there is anything there that you want to 
    do.  
> 
>2) Even though Bards Take gets its characters from my hard disk, and appears 
>   to use my s:, libs:, and fonts: from the hard disk, all picture loads
>   still come from floppy.
> 

That's because the program opens the files on the logical device "BardsTale:".

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