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  • New Ultima IV Easter egg?

    From Tristan Miller@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 4 14:14:42 2020
    Howdy, everyone!

    I was running my Commodore 64 version of Ultima IV just now and stumbled
    upon a feature that I had never noticed before. Specifically, from the
    main bootup menu (Return to the view/Journey onward/Initiate new
    game/etc.) you can select which tune is played, or turn the music off
    entirely, by pressing certain keys. Here's a list:

    B - Rule Britannia
    C - Castle Theme
    D - Dungeon Theme
    O - Overland Wandering Theme
    T or 1 - Towne Theme
    2 - Combat Theme
    3 - Shrine Theme
    4 - Merchant Theme
    0 - turn off music

    This feature doesn't seem to be documented in the reference card. Am I
    the first one to have discovered this?

    Regards,
    Tristan

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Mar 4 10:51:44 2020
    On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 14:14:42 +0100, Tristan Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

    Howdy, everyone!

    I was running my Commodore 64 version of Ultima IV just now and stumbled
    upon a feature that I had never noticed before. Specifically, from the
    main bootup menu (Return to the view/Journey onward/Initiate new
    game/etc.) you can select which tune is played, or turn the music off >entirely, by pressing certain keys. Here's a list:

    B - Rule Britannia
    C - Castle Theme
    D - Dungeon Theme
    O - Overland Wandering Theme
    T or 1 - Towne Theme
    2 - Combat Theme
    3 - Shrine Theme
    4 - Merchant Theme
    0 - turn off music

    This feature doesn't seem to be documented in the reference card. Am I
    the first one to have discovered this?

    Given the game's age, probably not but thats okay. It certainly isn't
    common knowledge (anyway, I've never heard about it either). Then
    again, very little about the Ultima games or C-64 programs is common
    knowledge anymore. :-(

    It doesn't work on the PC version. Then again, I'm using the hacked
    edition that added Roland music so who knows what was added and
    removed ;-)

    The trick does work in the Apple ][ version though.

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