Great Hierophant wrote:
I know of no one who has pristine copies of Ultima III's player disk, Mockingboard Enhanced Version.
How do I know if mine is the mocking board version? BTW, mine is the trilogy version of Ultimas 1-3.
The status of the Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness, is interesting. Most of the two-disk and all the one-disk images are hacked. The two-disk image that isn't obviously hacked is overdumped and therefore somewhat unusable. I don't know if there is a version of Ultima IV that is completely uncracked. As I understand it, it uses a custom DOS or something.
Ultima 4 uses an epilog byte and slightly modified RWTS that checks for either byte so it can read both a normal player disk and the protected sectors of the original disk without dual RWTS or hacking it on the fly.
All of my stuff, Ultimas included, are pristine and deprotected. (Protection removed/bypassed and no hacks added.) I never played on my original disks so my originals are also pristine. I'm working on getting all my stuff into a 'clean archive'. But who has time?
Thankx, Ed