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Originally Posted by Tom H.
I can't vouch for the accuracy of this, but I seem to recall hearing that Richard Garriott made early games like Ultima in compiled BASIC for the Apple II.
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I dug out my copy of
The Official Book Of UltimaŽ from 1990 and indeed
Akalabeth and
Ultima (not yet I) were originally written in BASIC. Ultima had help from some machine language routines for doing its tile-based graphics and other things.
Ultima II, though, was written in machine language from the start; that was in 1982. Later on they rewrote Ultima I in machine language for the Ultima Trilogy version in 1986.
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Originally Posted by ckosacranoid
getting back into the subject of the game, is there anyway to get a copy to play on a newer laptop at all theses days?
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The only legal way would be finding a secondhand copy on eBay or similar. If all rights to the game-as-released have been given to SJG, then it's up to them as to whether and how to resume legal distribution of the game.