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From: percim@odyssee.net (Mark Percival)
Newsgroups: comp.emulators.apple2,rec.games.ultima-dragons,comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Original Ultima Space Ace Patch
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 01:58:58 GMT
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There has been a long standing bug in the original, BASIC version of
Ultima that made it impossible to hit the alien ships to become a
Space Ace.  I was able to isolate the problem routine and posted to
comp.sys.apple2.programmer for help.  Rubywand (rubywand@aol.com)
figured out the problem and provided a patch.

The problem was in a small machine routine that used and undocumented
6502 opcode that a 65c02 would not recognize.  However, here's the
fix;

(Boot a AppleDOS 3.3 diskette and then load the Ultima Boot diskette)

]UNLOCK FGT3
]BLOAD FGT3
]CALL-151
*74D1:46 43 45 43
*3D0G
]BSAVE FGT3,$A7400,L$120
]LOCK FGT3

(Reboot and away you go)

I tried it and it works beautifully!

If you have any problems, let me know.

BTW, I've been having problems with my ISP.  If you've just read this
posting, send me an e-mail telling me you saw it and where abouts you
live.

Thanks....

Mark R. Percival
Montreal, Quebec
percim@odyssee.net

An Apple II fanatic since 1979.