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From: fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: ULTIMA VI ??
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Date: 28 Mar 91 19:05:14 GMT
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>From all I have heard from happy IBM gamers, ULTIMA VI is simply the best ULTIM
ULTIMA ever (even better than III, one diehard told me).

Unfortunately, Origin has poorly served Amiga users. They hired Micro Magic
to do their ports (specifically, the notorious ULTIMA III, which did not
allow the game to be reset when one started over, and this is a turn-counting
game; and OMEGA, which broke about every rule in the book for a standard
OS-using program, including using the Workbench screen to store unused
bitplanes and requiring a reboot after quitting), and the only good port
I've seen for the Amiga is ULTIMA IV, which at least allows you to create
an AmigaDOS saved game disk. ULTIMA V came on a heavily copy-protected
disk, which saves games to that copy-protected disk.
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        At the store where I work, a 16 year-old kid came in who had saved
up for ULTIMA V and had had the disk crash on him the very first time that
he tried to save the game. He was heartbroken and we managed to give him a
working copy using the OmniTool in ProjectD (important safety tip). I
do not recommend V to anyone who asks, because of that lousy port. I'd
love to see Origin do a good version of an Amiga game (if Microprose can
do it, so can they). I'm just not expecting to see one in my lifetime;
maybe they'll surprise us all.

                                                --Rick Wrigley
                                                fhwri@conncoll.bitnet
                                ~~~second-hand smoke is THEFT~~~