Archon Ultra (DOS)

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Description

Archon Ultra is a complete remake of Archon.

The game features a completely rewritten game engine, new graphics and sound as well as digital music (a la MOD files), along with a new style of game board and an additional "special weapon" for each figure. It also adds multiplayer game (modem as well as hot seat).

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Part of the Following Groups

• Archon series
• Enhanced remakes

User Reviews

One of my favorite games got updated!	Tomer Gabel (4351)
A good remake...	Carl-J. Johansson (30)	unrated

Critic Reviews

PC Gamer	May, 1994	76 out of 100	76
PC Joker	Mar, 1994	74 out of 100	74
PC Player (Germany)	Jul, 1994	70 out of 100	70
PC Games (Germany)	Mar, 1994	67 out of 100	67
MikroBitti	Mar, 1994	65 out of 100	65
Play Time	Apr, 1994	63 out of 100	63
Power Play	Jul, 1994	61 out of 100	61
Joystick (French)	Mar, 1994	60 out of 100	60
High Score	May, 1994	3 out of 5	60

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Bugs

Archon Ultra is obviously based largely on code from Star Control 2 as it also suffers from some of the same bugs (sound hanging under Windows as well as color corruption with newer VGA cards). Unfortunately, the bugfixes that apply to Star Control 2 do not apply to Archon Ultra.

They also didn't test their sound library, DSMI, with Gravis Ultrasound cards, which require different handling. On a machine with a GUS, the sound is very slow during idle time.

Related Web Sites

• Archon: Evolution ("Archon: Evolution" is a Windows based enhanced rewrite of the all time classic Archon (of which Archon Ultra is a reworking).)