Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!fauern!fauern!faui09!mnfriedr From: mnfriedr@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Friedrich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Ultima IV help needed Message-ID: Date: 20 Jul 90 16:47:17 GMT References: <2509@mindlink.UUCP> Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, W-Germany Lines: 51 david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) writes: >>In article <2509@mindlink.UUCP> a275@mindlink.UUCP (Travers Naran) writes: >> And I have only seen Ultima VI for the IBM yet. But it looks sooooo >>goooood!!!! :-) >I bought Ultima VI for the PC (I couldn't wait), and ended up returning >it. I even bought it without having an IBM! :) >If you don't have an AT with a hard drive, FORGET RUNNING ULTIMA VI on >a PC!!! I run it on XT 4.77Mhz, NO harddisk and Hercules! :) >The sucker reads from the disk for EVERY MOVE! Battles that took 30 >seconds on a Hard Drive AT took 5 mins on my AT floppy-based laptop!!!! That's right. >It is also pretty near impossible to use with CGA. EGA/VGA are necessary. It's a problem to identify objects on the screen in Hercules mode, you have to "look" at every thing! :) >Also, a mouse is highly recomended. I don't think so. >However, I agree with Travers in that the EGA/VGA versions look nice. No >more "tile graphics". You are looking down on the scene at an angle, and >everything, including the characters, are rendered as if you were really >seeing them at that angle. >There is no difference between being inside and outside a village or castle >anymore either. >I guess I will have to wait till the Amiga version comes out. I hope >that it won't have the same problems as the PC version! I bought it because I'm an Ultima-FREAK. I cannot wait for a C64 version (it must be even worse than IBM with floppies & Hercules). I think you have to buy it with 16Mhz, Harddisk, VGA and Sound-card. You have VERY good songs then. But for every Ultima-Freak like me, buy it even if you have to play it with disks, I personally NEED my Ultima! *grin* Well, greetings, Martin -- email: mnfriedr@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de snail: Martin Friedrich, Postfach 1602, D-8520 Erlangen ******************************************************* Posted by the famous Efchen!! YAHOO!