Re: Ultima 2 strength increase bug

["Great Hierophant" <great_hierophant@hotmail.com>]

I believe that when California Pacific Computer went under the rights
to the original Ultima reverted back to Richard Garriott.  This allowed
his new company Origin to do a ML rewrite in 1986.  Origin purchased
the rights to Ultima II (except for the title art apparently) back from
Sierra On-Line by the late 80's.  I think the only reasons why Origin
updated Ultima II to look cosmetically similar to the ML UItima I is to
take advantage of the of the Apple IIe keys, to speed up the loading
times with ProDos and to give the whole package a more uniform look.