Ultima Underworld - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Apr 2006

I am pretty sure I have Ultima IV (4 floppies) in the attic, and
Comanche ... does ring a bell. I also have Xwing on 5 floppies,
but I seem to remember an other game on 8 or even 10 floppies,
(no, not Win3.11) but I cannot remember the name.  Will look for
it this evening!

- Henk.

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org 
 [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Zane H. Healy
 Sent: maandag 3 april 2006 9:50
 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts; 
 General; "Discussion:"
 Subject: Re: Ultima Underworld

 At 4:40 AM +0100 4/3/06, Jules Richardson wrote:
 yeah yeah, it's a game and I don't
normally do game posts :-) Does 
anyone happen to have a copy? I was watching the lad playing some 3D 
adventure game on the playstation 2 earlier and it brought back 
memories of playing Ultima back in the early 90's on my old   486 PC and 
 just how darn good that game was. Other than the
low screen res by 
modern standards, I reckon it should have stood the test of   time pretty 
 well.  
 Wow, I'd forgotten about that one!  I should have the copy I 
 bought when it came out, but who knows where on earth it is.  
 IIRC, that was pretty impressive for 256 colour VGA.

 (off to look for more early 90's classics I
think :-)  
 Commanche Attack Helicopter (I think that's the right name) 
 comes to mind, it is the most impressive game I've ever seen 
 running on a
 486/33 with 640x480 256 colour.  Of course the Eye of 
 Beholder games were great fun.

 My all time favorite is "Master of Orion", though "Warlords 
 II" is a close second.  In both cases the Mac version is the 
 best, as you can play the Mac version at greater than 
 640x480.  "Master of Orion" will still run under Classic on 
 Mac OS X, sadly it's been a long time since I played 
 "Warlords II", I forget which version of Mac OS broke it, but 
 it was a long time ago.  I should try to find my PC disks, as 
 I first bought both for the PC.  Either that or I need to get 
 something like "Basilisk II" running so I can run them under 
 emulation.  I usually manage at least a couple games of 
 "Master of Orion" every year.

 			Zane

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