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From: timothyb@crash.UUCP (Timothy Burleson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Ultima III/HELP NEEDED!!!
Message-ID: <414@crash.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 21:22:00 EST
Article-I.D.: crash.414
Posted: Tue Nov 18 21:22:00 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Nov-86 08:48:20 EST
Reply-To: timothyb@crash.UUCP (Timothy Burleson)
Organization: San Diego Swamplands
Lines: 24
Keywords: HELP!!!

My friend bought Ultima III and now his game disk won't work. He showed me 
his ORIGINAL game disk, so this is not due to piracy. In fact, due to the
fact that he doesn't have any of those copy programs like MIRROR or QUICK
NIBBLE, he was unable to make a backup and had to use the original as his
game disk!!! To top it off, Ultima III won't work with the write protect on
as it writes to the disk constantly! I can't believe that a company would
make you do this to your game disk.
   Anyway... His problem is that whenever he goes into ANY town, the people
will not do business with him. When he tries to buy food or supplies, they
say, "Honesty is a virtue. I will not trade with you". Naturally, not being
able to buy food, his characters all die of starvation.
   We tried deleting EVERY character on the disk, disbanding the party, and
even (using a backup I made for him) tried deleting some of the files.
   I have two theories. 1. Somehow, his disk was altered and now the program
thinks it is an illegal backup. or 2. The program was written this way to
react to thievery or decietful behavior. Either way, I think its pretty 
crappy to make the game un-usable when he paid over $40 dollars for it and
HAD to play on the original disk. 
   If anyone can help, PLEASE send E-Mail to me... Thanks.

Timothy B. Burleson
San Diego Swamplands

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