![]() Every move redraws the screen, and at the default speed it is SLOW. I appear to have no name, no inventory, and be a Level 1 Lizard Peasant.Īctually playing the game is a bit agonizing. Then I resurrect onto an island with a signpost. So I have to use emulator quicksaves.Īnother weird issue, and maybe this is just a bug from the original game - if I take the disk images in their pristine state and try to continue a previous game without generating a new character, it plops me in the middle of the ocean, dead on arrival. But there is a big problem - if I save with the 'Q' key and try to load the save later, AppleWin just freezes. I can start a new character, save the character to disk 2, then start a new game. The rampant piracy scene really did a number on preservation just about everything floating around on the Internet is either cracked (often with obnoxious loaders), buggy, corrupt, has saves, or a combination of the above. I'm trying to play through it on AppleWin, but it's a rough experience.įinding "pristine" images that work is tough. The true original is on Apple II, which was published by California Pacific Computer in 1981. ![]() ![]() What we have on GOG is a remake that was made six years after the original, after Ultima's 1 through 4 had already been released. Every PC has audio in/out, so it'd be a matter of hooking Applewin to those jacks.For those who don't know, the original Ultima was never ported to PC. In the Apple II, the CP was (and remains) a valuable resource. Today it's used to bootstrap machines with ADTPro, and actually run games from your iPod with Apple Game Server. And let us not forget the numerous educational science kits that used it as an I/O port. And we had a v-sync wire where the CP detected part of the videosignal. The Apple used the cassette port like an aux speaker output, and even input for digitizing sound. Think of it as peer-to-peer short range 10 meter network. I also built a two-way communications wire I strung between my and my buddy's bedroom window and I could program something and send it to him that way. I built a "modem" that connected to the cassette port, it was slow and naturally required some manual setup, but it worked. back in the day when I/O options were limited and expensive, every little bit helped. Some people may believe Cassette Ports are like meh. This should tide me over until Applewin IIgs is ready for primetime. You can download it here: Stand-Alone application. ![]() ![]() I still use Copy II+ on occasion, but Ciderpress meets most of my needs.Įdit: Well it turns out the online version is available as a standalone version. Without Ciderpress, you would need Applewin and ADTPro. I agree that Applewin, Ciderpress are indispensable for working with disk images, especially Ciderpress. I would rather have an Applewin equivalent so I can save my games, etc. It was perfect for playing games though because you could just go there and boot it up. I liked the online Apple IIgs emulator, but it doesn't support the latest browsers the last time I checked. What features and functionality would you like to see added to Applewin? One I can think of would be to eventually emulate more of the hardware cards that were available for it, but that might not be worth the effort in many cases. ![]()
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