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> I do wonder that no one thought of it in even the relatively brief history of videogames prior to Ultima it does seem a fairly obvious approach, after all. I learned how to hex-edit my player's disk sectors to give them 99 HP, which made the end game much easier. I never knew I was supposed to optimize my builds when I was a kid, so my teams always ended up wimpy and dying. there's a community dedicated to reverse engineering the source code for Ultima and fixing bugs: and even a team that made a modern Apple IIe Ultima-like ( )Īnother thing I realized, playing Nox archaist, is that much of the modern game mechanics already existed at that time: it was key to pay tons of attention to arming your fighters and using the right spells by your cleric and magician. I was pretty obsessed with learning enough Apple IIe assembly to reproduce the tile graphics of ultima but never got close. Later I realized that I was telling him I loved his game which was unreleased and already being copied illegally. I told him all about how I loved his game and he said that since I liked it so much why didn't I present at his kiosk? As a kid I was thrilled to meet Lord British at the Apple Fest in Boston (1985, I think?).

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