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Why No Ultima VI?
- Subject: Why No Ultima VI?
- From: "Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com>
- Date: 17 Sep 2005 11:05:27 -0700
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I was looking at some Ultima sites and to surprise I discovered that
Ultima VI was released for the C64. I had no idea that it had been
released for any computer other than Atari ST, Amiga, and PC. Then it
occured to me, if the C64 got a port of Ultima VI, why not the Apple
II?
Was the C64 market any more lucrative in 1990 than the Apple? IIRC
both were in a state of decline at the time. I know Ultima V was
really pushing the limits of the Apple, but was the C64 really any more
powerful?
It seems a shame that the Apple was denied a port of Ultima VI, as it
would have been nice to have closure to the storyline (it always bugged
me). Although the C64 version is rather nasty looking compared to
Ultima VI on other machines, it would have been nice to have. I think
the Apple could have handled it.
I read somewhere that a port of Ultima VI for the Apple was actually
started and scrapped. I wonder if anything from this version still
exists?