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Re: Ultima I--space travel



On Feb 18, 11:21 pm, Ophidian <zacwb...@vt.edu> wrote:
> Has anyone here played Ultima I (the 1981 version from California
> Pacific, not the 1986 remake) and successfully finished the outer space
> section?  It does not appear that I can ever hit the enemy ships playing
> on AppleWin, no matter how slow the emulation, or how apparently direct
> the hit.  I've tried for a long time now.
>
> The code is in BASIC on the desk, and I see there is a PEEK to memory
> location 7405 to see if it is FF, but as far as I can tell this memory
> is never POKEd.  Now, I can find a line in the assembly in the debug
> window where FF is written to that location, but similarly I cannot
> figure out where that is in the BASIC program.
>
> Any enlightenment would be appreciated!
>
> -Zac

This is a bug in Ultima. There is a patch available, but I wonder if
you could first try something simple ... assuming you are using the
latest AppleWin. Change the machine type to Apple II+ and see if the
problem is fixed. It should be.

Cheers,
Nick.