Re: Ultima I--space travel

["MSauer" <mary-sauer@mycolumbus.rr.com>]

I played that game years ago. I still have the original disk. I have no clue 
about your problem, but thanks for the memory.

-- 
MSauer
"Ophidian" <zacwbond@vt.edu> wrote in message 
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> Has anyone here played Ultima I (the 1981 version from California Pacific, not 
> the 1986 remake) and successfully finished the outer space section?  It does 
> not appear that I can ever hit the enemy ships playing on AppleWin, no matter 
> how slow the emulation, or how apparently direct the hit.  I've tried for a 
> long time now.
>
> The code is in BASIC on the desk, and I see there is a PEEK to memory location 
> 7405 to see if it is FF, but as far as I can tell this memory is never POKEd. 
> Now, I can find a line in the assembly in the debug window where FF is written 
> to that location, but similarly I cannot figure out where that is in the BASIC 
> program.
>
> Any enlightenment would be appreciated!
>
> -Zac