Trivia
The version of Ultima II that came with the Apple release of the Ultima Trilogy was actually updated to support the arrow keys of the Apple //e and looks like Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness for the Apple II.
After the separate release, this must be the only Ultima compilation that has a fully working version of Ultima II for DOS. Ultima II was ported to DOS in the days of version 1.0, which did not support subdirectories. Therefore, the map data for the various Earth time periods is stored on one disk and the data for the outer planets, which share the same file names, are on another disk. Any fully working version of Ultima II must therefore come on three separate floppy disks, which the later CD compilations cannot handle.
The original Ultima games used to come with cloth maps and other interesting tidbits in the boxes, from 'moonstones' to ankh's. This compilation, however, does not contain those items.
Contributed by
Yakumo (438) on Mar 18, 2000.
