ysicklittlemonkey wrote:
This is a bug in Ultima. There is a patch available, but I wonder if you could first try something simple ... assuming you are using the latest AppleWin. Change the machine type to Apple II+ and see if the problem is fixed. It should be.
Wow, I thought this was a hopeless query for certain. Switching the system did not seem to work, and I haven't found a patch yet. I've hacked around some other annoying behavior in the game.
I would have been surprised that switching the system would fix the problem, because the assembly I looked at didn't seem like it would work (it waits for values to become equal before the lasers can hit the ship, but they only seem to become equal at the edge of the screen).
And I thought the later Ultima games were buggy :-P Thanks, -Zac