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From: DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Ultima V mini-review
Message-ID: <90314.221117DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 90 03:11:17 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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Well, I received Ultima V in the mail today and I've played with it some.
Unfortuntely, I can't say anything nice about this porting job. The problems
mentioned earlier are indeed present (not hd-installable, only uses 1 floppy,
etc. etc. etc.). The keyboard routines don't work well. I could only get the
keyboard to work at all after patching the interrupt routine to do a proper
handshake. Even then, it doesn't really work right (it loses keystrokes --
guess the programmer  never heard of buffering).

As for the graphics, they are no better than Ultima IV on the Amiga. The music
that exists (and only one tune is ever played, as far as I know) is fine. (?!)

In short, I was very disappointed.

-- Dan Babcock