Re: Ultima 5 to HD?

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <45erfn$53v@news.cc.ucf.edu>,
Anthony Martino Iii <am20038@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> wrote:
>A while back I bought Ultima 5.  More recently I acquired a hard-drive, 
>and tried loading it hoping to avoid all the disk-swapping.  
>Unfortunatly, it will not recognize any non-5.25 disk drive. (I even 
>tried putting it on a 3.5 disk without luck).  Does anyone know a way to 
>patch Ultima 5 to get it to run on a hard drive?

   A lot of people have expressed these desires (myself included), but
I've never heard of a solution. I'm afraid I never really minded the
swapping, but then again I really sector-edited my copy so that the
party was maxxed out at the touch of the 'i' key, could take ships
anywhere ("Cmmere, nasty troll... *BOOM*" :), etc. Very fun. :)

Nathan Mates


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