xu4 - Ultima IV Recreated

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xu4 - Ultima IV Recreated
http://xu4.sourceforge.net/

> XU4 is a remake of the computer game Ultima IV. The goal is to
> make it easy and convenient to play this classic on modern
> operating systems. XU4 is primarily inspired by the much more
> ambitious project Exult. XU4 is a cross-platform application
> thanks to SDL; it's available for Windows, MacOS X, Linux and
> more.

cooool!

I think Ultima IV was the first PC game I really became addicted
to. I remember playing it on Apple IIe's in high school.

I think it took me about 4 months to complete the game the first
time, then I started again and finished it in about 3 weeks, then
again quickly once or twice after figuring out some ways to cheat.
(e.g. if you flipped the map disk over at a certain spot, there
would be a permanent gold chest that you could 'g'et repeatedly
until you had 9999 gold.)

I just compiled and ran xu4; pretty mind-blowing to be able to
see and play this old favorite 15+ years later. Just viewing the
intro screen kind of stunned me for a while.

It would be fun to finish the whole thing again, but I forget
everything I used to know about it. I used to have a couple pages
of handwritten notes on spells, etc; I wonder if I still have
that laying around somewhere...

(ultima 4 is actually one of the things I was most looking forward
to seeing again in an apple2 emulator after restoring my old data
from floppies)

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