Re: Whatever Happened to Lord British?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <jtollison-1908962215430001@ppp25.emeraldis.com>,
John Tollison <jtollison@emeraldis.com> wrote:
>   I picked up an exelent book a few years back that gave a decent bio of
>Richard Garriot (aka Lord British) in relation to the events leading him
>to program the Ultima series. He started with Ultima 1 on an early apple
>II and left for the PC world after Ultima V. I, too, would be interested
>to know where he is now though. The book, "The Official Book of Ultima"
>was very inspiring to me and is one of the few books I've read more than
>once.

>   Does anyone know what he's doing now? Still working on the Ultima Series?

   Yes. Ultima 9 is in the works. Hopefully it'll be a good sight
better than the fairly deplorable Ultima 8. Ultima is more than a test
of your reflexes clicking the mouse in combat. [You don't click fast
enough, you're dead, and it's back to the last saved game, no
resurrection for you.]

    U8 was also fairly slow at the time, and even with my P90, 32MB
Ram system, it takes nearly 45 seconds of sitting there to get to the
first screen. I bought it new for $11.95 at the local CD Rom store,
and that was probably about $10 more than I'd value it at. Sold it to
a friend after a week for $5, and cut my losses.

Nathan Mates

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