Re: Ultima IV wanted

[vsp@unix3.netaxs.com (have clue--will travel)]

Sean Michael McAfee <mcafee@umich.edu> wrote:
>In article <385183$r5m@netaxs.com>,
>have clue--will travel <vsp@unix3.netaxs.com> wrote:
>>>yup.  BTW, what good was the glass sword???  Mine always shattered... (or
>>>was that in Ultima V?)
>
>>That was in Ultima V, and was VERY helpful in a pinch; wield it, and the
>>next monster you strike DIES.
>
>Yes, this will even work on a Shadowlord, although it doesn't destroy it,
>merely dispels it.  Of course, if you're minimally cautious you should never
>have to enter into combat with a Shadowlord.
>
>I never tried using the sword on Blackthorn.  Could be interesting.

Heh.  Time to experiment.  I have a feeling, though, that he'd go 'poof'
only to magically return when you got caught by the guards.

If it works, though, it'd be almost as much fun as blowing away Lord
British in Ultima III with the boat at the back of his castle.

>>Your sword breaks, but you can go get another
>>one from the Ankh alcove later.
>
>What's this?  I only ever got the glass sword from the wreckage of the airship
>in the Serpent's Spine mountains, and there was only one there.

Right -- I say 'Ankh alcove' because there was an Ankh there in U IV.
They handled this well, if I recall.  You can get more than one glass
sword... but only one at a time.  Whack a dragon, go back, get another,
whack a dragon, go back, get another, whack Blackthorn, go back...

The number may well be finite, however.  Never kept it up until they
were all gone. 

>Technical question:  Just yesterday, I installed my first hard drive into my
>GS.  Five minutes later, I was wondering how I ever got along without it.

Five minutes later, I'm wondering how I'm getting along without one myself.
(Not to mention where I'm going to FIND a used, external one around 100 MB
other than mail order or via the Internet.)
  
>Anyhow, is there a way to copy the Ultima V disks into partition(s) on the
>HD, and thus avoid the frequent disk-switching that's the single most time-
>consuming aspect of the game?

This may be wrong, but I doubt it without going in and cracking the disks.
Since I don't recall Origin including any self-HD-installation-while-
maintaining-copy-protection programs, you'd have to get a catalog of the
files on each disk (doing this with the boot disk could be entertaining),
copy each disk to your partitions, and then figure out how to alter the
code so that it'll look for files somewhere other than your 5.25" drive.

If there's a short-cut, someone please enlighten me, but...  

		jeff.  who wouldn't mind having his Micro League Baseball on
			my Desktop, and would kill for some Team Disks
			or the GM/Owner disk...
 

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