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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
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Subject: Ultima I help desired
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 16:26:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 16:26:43 1985
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*** You can't walk on water! ***

   I just picked up Ultima (the original) for my Atari, and I need some
advice.  It seems that either I'm incredibly dense, or the documentation
is sorely lacking.  Aside from such 'features' as getting resurrected in the
middle of an ocean and not being able to move, I can't seem to do things like
run away from or hit the bad guys.  This is aggravated by such things as having
no food, gold, or weapons after dying.  Also, what is the meaning of the bizarre
words that pop out after I pray?  Spells and spell use in general is at best
sketchily described in the manual.  Are there any strategies to help avoid
problems like these, or is this game a lemon?  Are the subsequent Ultima's
equally poor?  (I guess that's what I get for buying something that isn't from
the folks at Infocom.)
   Please e-mail me any advice (or offers :-)... meanwhile I'll be playing
Enchanter.

[Ultima, Infocom, Enchanter, Atari, etc are all probably registered trademarks]
-- 
 - joel "vo" plutchak
{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster

"Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is
all confusion."