Devil Whiskey does an excellent job of maintaining the look and feel of Bards Tale. The interface is quite similar, and the classes, dungeons, and general gameplay all are quite reminiscent of the original. Devil Whiskey does have some modern innovations - it comes with a rudimentary automap, and while it keeps the system of casting spells by typing in four letter codes it provides a menu that can be used to select a spell for those that don't bother memorizing the letters or don't want all the extra typing. For you rookies that are horrified by the casting of spells by typing in code letters this was a nice convenience at the time. Some of us still remember tiltowait - if you wanted to nuke your enemies in the original version of Wizardry 1 you needed to remember (or look up) the whole name and type it correctly - ditto with the other spells. Later versions were improved and recognized the first few letters so you didn't need to type the whole name. But back to Devil Whiskey.