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Archon Ultra

Description

Archon Ultra is a complete remake of classic cross-platform action/strategy smash Archon.

The game features completely rewritten code with better game engine, much-improved 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).

Part of the Following Groups

• Archon series
• Enhanced remakes

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User Reviews

One of my favorite games got updated!	Tomer Gabel (4476)
A good remake...	Carl-J. Johansson (37)	unrated

The Press Says

Abandonia	Apr 27, 2006	5 out of 5	100
PC Gamer	May, 1994	76 out of 100	76
PC Player (Germany)	Jul, 1994	70 out of 100	70
High Score	May, 1994	3 out of 5	60
Joystick	Mar, 1994	60 out of 100	60

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Trivia

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.

(Editor's note: 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.)