Re: Ultima IV wanted

[mcafee@umich.edu (Sean Michael McAfee)]

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.

>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.

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.
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?

On a tangent, did anyone ever finish Might and Magic?  I spent untold hours
playing that game, and eventually mapped every place there was, but couldn't
discover any kind of ending.  The only place I couldn't discover the point of
was the "Gate to Another World"; but you can't walk through it, and no spell
will activate it.  What gives?

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