Re: Ultima IV wanted

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <1994Oct17.110112.33548@cobra.uni.edu> fishern3485@cobra.uni.edu writes:
>>>> Lately, I've had a strong desire to play Ultima IV. I still have the map, 
>>>> manual, etc., but the disks are long gone.  Does anyone out there still 
>>>> have a copy that I could buy/rent/loan?  I would appreciate it.
>>>
>>>you DO realize it's impossible to solve, right?
>> 
>> Au contraire!  I helped my brother solve it once.
>> 
>> 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??

Nobody had to tell us the answers to the riddles, because the answers
permeate the entire game.  If memory serves, you just get asked about the
eight virtues in the standard order, and then the three qualities.  The
final riddle is answered by the word spelled out in runes that you see when
you meditate at shrines.

>(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?

               - Neil Parker
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