Bard's Tale 1: Tales of the Unknown for ZX Spectrum

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Bard's Tale 1: Tales of the Unknown

Online version of Bard's Tale 1: Tales of the Unknown for ZX Spectrum. The Bard's Tale was designed and programmed by Michael Cranford. Based loosely on traditional Dungeons and Dragons gameplay and inspired by the Wizardry computer games, The Bard's Tale was noteworthy for its unprecedented 3D graphics and animated character portraits...

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Released in

1985

Publisher

Electronic Arts, Inc.

Developer

Interplay Productions

Platforms

Apple II, Commodore 64 (1985), Amiga (1986), PC DOS, Atari ST, Apple IIgs (1987), Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Macintosh (1988), NES (1991)

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Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Online emulated version of Bard's Tale 1: Tales of the Unknown was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, it was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black and white display of its predecessor, the ZX81. The Spectrum was released as eight different models, ranging from the entry level with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and built in floppy disk drive in 1987.
The Spectrum is based on a Zilog Z80 A CPU running at 3.5 MHz (or NEC D780C-1 clone). The original model has 16 KB (16×1024 bytes) of ROM and either 16 KB or 48 KB of RAM. Hardware design was by Richard Altwasser of Sinclair Research, and the outward appearance was designed by Sinclair's industrial designer Rick Dickinson.
Video output is through an RF modulator and was designed for use with contemporary television sets, for a simple colour graphic display. Text can be displayed using 32×24 characters from the ZX Spectrum character set or from a set provided within an application, from a palette of 15 shades: seven colours at two levels of brightness each, plus black. The image resolution is 256×192 with the same colour limitations.