Re: Decade-old Ultima puzzler

[tshaynes@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Timmy)]

In article <jolomoD0rECH.GGB@netcom.com>, Joe Morris <jolomo@netcom.com> wrote:
>I just thought of something from my miss-spent youth. When we'd play
>hours and hours of the ultima games, we always wanted a way to print
>out maps of towns you see by using the magic jewel (I think this is
>UII) but we never found one how.  Is there a way to do this without any
>special hardware? Either as a print screen of some kind or a way to
>poke through the disk files to find all the maps.
>
>Solve a decade-old puzzler!!

A friend of mine and I did this with Ultima IV.  UIV would let you get into
the Control Panel of the IIgs, from whence we would use the CDA from an
Orange Micro Grappler+ (I think) to capture the screen image (cropped) and
print.  It was great fun, and I still have the map.  Somewhere...

Cheers!

Tim
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