Ultima III - Staring Over

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

I know that if you save to a Ultima (the original written for Applesoft
only) or Ultima II player disk, you cannot restore the disk to its
original save position.  That is why the manuals of those two games
tell you to make copies of the original disks and never save to the
original disks.  The original disks often don't even have write notches
on the sides so you have to put effort into making the disk writeable.

But Ultima III, at least for the Apple II seems to have a problem.  If
you start a party but everybody gets killed, the game writes this
information in the file.   Even if you entirely obliterate the dead
members and have no one left on the roster, when you start a new party,
all the treasure chests and monsters will still be where you left them.
 Not very sporting if you want to start fresh.  If you have many
monsters generated on the world map they will likely kill your party in
repeated encounters (not entirely sure of this.)  Even worse, the
Player Master is copy protected and there is no included program to
copy the disk.  Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem?

GH