{
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "additional_evidence_urls": [
    "https://github.com/retro-ware/bt1-re/blob/e932e5dc77552a878d90a152174856a668e1c4f0/CHECKLIST.md"
  ],
  "category": "reconstruction-cases",
  "class": "game",
  "description_en": "The Bard's Tale reconstructs the 1987 MS-DOS BARD.EXE as C and assembly modules built with Microsoft C 4.0 and LINK 3.51 /EXEPACK. Its scripts rebuild the root program and three overlays, then compare the result with a user-provided executable; the author reports a byte-identical full rebuild.",
  "description_zh": "The Bard's Tale 将 1987 年 MS-DOS 版 BARD.EXE 重建为 C 和汇编模块，使用 Microsoft C 4.0 与 LINK 3.51 /EXEPACK 构建。脚本重建主程序及三个覆盖模块，再与用户提供的原版文件比较；作者报告完整结果逐字节相同。",
  "entry_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/bards-tale-msdos-decomp-case/",
  "entry_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/bards-tale-msdos-decomp-case/",
  "evidence_class": 2,
  "evidence_status": "observed",
  "evidence_url": "https://github.com/retro-ware/bt1-re/blob/e932e5dc77552a878d90a152174856a668e1c4f0/README.md",
  "group": "cases",
  "id": "bards-tale-msdos-decomp-case",
  "json_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/bards-tale-msdos-decomp-case/record.json",
  "kind": "case-study",
  "markdown_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/bards-tale-msdos-decomp-case/index.md",
  "markdown_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/bards-tale-msdos-decomp-case/index.md",
  "name": "The Bard's Tale: byte-matching reconstruction of BARD.EXE",
  "name_zh": "The Bard's Tale：BARD.EXE 逐字节匹配重建",
  "reconstruction_method": "matching-decompilation",
  "record_type": "resource",
  "relationship": "independent-reconstruction",
  "requirement_facets": [
    "prerequisites",
    "prerequisites",
    "license"
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Provide your own BARD.EXE and Microsoft C 4.0 with LINK 3.51.",
    "Building uses DOSBox-X, nasm and Python 3.",
    "No licence file in the repository."
  ],
  "requirements_zh": [
    "需自备 BARD.EXE、Microsoft C 4.0 和 LINK 3.51。",
    "构建需要 DOSBox-X、nasm 和 Python 3。",
    "仓库中没有许可证文件。"
  ],
  "scope": "unknown",
  "targets": [
    "game"
  ],
  "url": "https://github.com/retro-ware/bt1-re",
  "verification": "source-reviewed",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-06"
}