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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Bard's Tale I
Message-ID: <5399.AA5399@caleb>
Date: 12 Jan 90 19:50:36 GMT
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[ Insert stupid lineeater joke here. ]

Thanks to all who helped me get Bard's Tale working on my hard drive.  Marauder
II broke the copy protection, but I found that the program still gurued until
I reduced my stack to the default 4000 bytes.  (Only a really brain dead program
would guru because the stack was too big!!!)  Anyway, although I now have it
running on my hard disk, I really didn't achieve my main objective.  The main
objective was to make it run faster.  Although it does load pictures faster
from the hard drive, it is still VERY slow!  My Apple II+ probably runs Wizardry
faster!!!  (For the uninitiated, Bard's Tale is much like a clone of Wizardry.)

Does anyone out there know why Bard's Tale is soooo slow?  Is it written in COBOL?
Interpreted BASIC?  Maybe it ignores the 68000 (actually 010) chip and runs off
the Z80 in my A2090?  A combination of the above???



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                                        Jim Pritchett

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