I'm surprised you weren't able to get UIX to work. I was able to play it (badly) on my P3-600 with a GeForce3 at the time. Though it took until the 1.19f patch came out and a 1.3Ghz machine to really play it.

Yeah back in the day we didn't have the greatest rig - I think it fell just over the minimum requirements.

I remember checking the Ultima website for patches and praying every-time but none really fixed it for us. Than I remember them closing said site down for some reason or another.

The best Ultima game by far is 9, the Spoony One made a very long review series saying why Ultima 9 is awesome and is one of the greatest games of all time. :)

OK, I am having a ball with Ultima IV--but the xu4 version with the VGA fan patch. Love it. And at the moment I am having a great time with the Exult version of U7--it's great--the graphics options alone are wonderful and make it a whole new experience for me. Now, about that Amiga...

A sad tale...(sort of)...

I never ditched my Amiga--I just finally broke down and bought another Windows x86 clone in 1995 (after my last x86 clone in '85--a Tandy 1000) simply because C= had gone belly-up (twice) by then, shifted ownership as many times, and it was obvious that my "great love" for the past 9 years--the Amiga--was going no further than my last Amiga, a highly tricked-out A4000--Toaster, Z3 Fastlane Scsi 1GB HD, a whopping 16Megs of ram (which cost a small fortune in those days)--heck, it all cost a small fortune in those days...;) But, man, the stuff that I could do with that box! The preemptively multitasking Amiga exec in Workbench 3.x was amazing at the time--when Windows would choke and stutter when an IDE hard drive would load from disk!...;)

Even though it took Windows until at least XP to achieve some kind of parity with the power of Workbench, even today the multitasking environment in Win8.1x64--and with multicore cpus, too and gigabytes of ram--isn't quite as robust as what I remember from my A4000...! Ah, well--Workbench had no memory protection to speak of and was very lightweight in that regard compared to current Windows--but it could use < 16MB's of ram so much more efficiently than Windows the difference was like night & day.

Ok, enough pining. Would I want to go back? No way. My gaming environment, not to mention hardware environment, is incredibly richer today than it was then. Still, though, there was something that the Amiga/Workbench machines had in those days that Windows boxes today still *don't* have...Gates had the sense to sell the OS for the lowly Intel x86 clone when *nobody* else, not Apple or Commodore or IBM or Sun or...anybody, did. And the history was writ large, wasn't it?

Yes.

That question does not need to be asked. The answer is known before the question.

Ultima 7

My first was Ultima IV, which I thought was the greatest ever at the time. When Ultima V came out it was such an improvement that I was blown away. Ultima 7 & 7 Part 2 gave me the same impression. So between U5 & U7P2 I would have a hard time picking a favorite.

Ultima 7 for me. First one I played, but the sheer interactivity in that game is staggering.