Ultima game hints (was Re: Ultima IV wanted)

[hancockv@pro-ict.cts.com (Vincent Hancock)]

In <37uo53$d3l@pith.uoregon.edu>
nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker) writes:

>>>>you DO realize it's impossible to solve, right?
>>> Of course, we did have to use a sector editor to raise our stats to superhuman
>>> levels in order to survive the Abyss...

>>ok even with that..... who told you the answer to the riddle??
>>(btw, it's more fun to play it through the first time w/o cheating,
>>and then play a "if it moves, nuke it" game ;-)    )

>Hmm.  We never managed to make it through at all without cheating...even
>after setting all our characterstics to $FF with the sector editor (which
>displays REALLY strangely, since the game seems to do all its arithmetic in
>BCD), we barely managed to survive to the bottom of the Abyss.  I wonder if
>we were missing some important item?

I'll be uploading a file called Ultima IV hints to cco.caltech.edu in the
next day or so called ultima4.hints.  Warning: This is MANY pages long & will
guide even a novice user through the game :)  I've compiled it from several
old hint docs & my own experience.
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hancockv@pro-ict.cts.com (Vincent Hancock)
vincent.hancock@twsubbs.twsu.edu (alternate address)