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- From: ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm)
- Subject: Re: I found a Ultima like game for the MAC!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <ingemar.725020977@isy>
- Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
- Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping
- References: <1992Dec22.002312.5866@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <168C411E6B.UC525655@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 10:42:57 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- UC525655@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Mark Eaton) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec22.002312.5866@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- >poret_jc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Jay C Poret) writes:
- >
- >>I believe I found an Ultima like game for the MAC. The Game is called "Shadows
- >>Keep". It is very Ultima like, with a pretty good interface. The game is
- >>Shareware and has a $10 fee. I would gladly pay this, but I have not been
- >>able to get a hold of the programmer. The game is like the later Ultimas, where
- >>you have a mission, and you need to find magical items, get treasure,
- >>buy Armour, weapons, and magic potions, standard Ultima fare.
- >>
- >>I have played the game, but the problem is that for any character, you can only
- >>save the game 5 times. That is not nearly enough since you die quite ofter
- >>while trying to build a good character. The game needs a password in order to
- >>unlock the infinite save feature.
-
- Yup, it's a demo version.
-
- >>If anybody has heard of this game, please post on the net. I know a lot of
- >>people would be interested, as well as myself!
-
- >So send a copy to sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- > or mac.archive.umich.edu
- >so we all can try it out!
-
- I think I can dig it up from the MacExclusives CD... if I only had a CD
- player. However, *don't expect too much*. Unless Glenn Andreas (the author,
- unless I'm confusing him with someone else) has improved the graphics,
- it's rather simple b/w graphics. Personally, I think Theldrow is better.
- (Theldrow is, after all, in color and has 3D perspective.)
-
- Shadow Keep does not have modern graphics. If you can accept the
- flat, a bit crude B/W graphics, tnen it can be fun. For shareware, it's
- good, but most of all since noone has gotten around to do a better one.
- It's more like "all we have" than "great game", IMHO - though better
- graphics would help a bit.
-
- --
- Ingemar Ragnemalm
- Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar
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- University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se
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