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Originally Posted by andwan0 (Post 466817)

Hi guys

I am trying to find a lost walkthrough Ultima Underworld. It was a nice UW walkthrough, very detailed, step-by-step. I only copied level 1 & the map into MS Word a long time ago. Now I can't find it on google anymore. I searched and searched and can't find it.

Here is the part I have. If anyone knows about this walkthrough, please share!

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Yes, it's weird. I did google searches on certain sentences from this walkthrough, and I even did an IMAGE SEARCH, and google couldn't find any reference.
I liked this walkthrough because it was the most detailed-step-by-step walkthrough.
I'll try the other walkthroughs - even though they are not as detailed.

Hi andwan0.

I own the game Ultima Underworld I, but I am not sure if the extras such as the maps are the ones you are looking for.

I made a screenshot of the game with all the extras for you to check them out.

Recalling that many old sites such as Geocities and other ancient domains are doomed to extinction I presume.

I remember there was a site with the maps of Lands of Lore I, but I am afraid it is gone forever as well.

Another site with the Master of Magic Champions and Heroes data also disappeared. But Wikia supplied, but without the same information as the site.

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Originally Posted by Scatty (Post 467483)

When I purchased Ultima 8 back then, the box contained a full printed cloth map and a tin pentagram coin. Too bad I lost it all with time, but the game packages back then really used to be filled with love, all the content + manual, and sometimes even the hint books, can't even hope to see that in modern games with the scarce PDF manuals on CD if you're lucky, or nothing at all as usually.

Hi Scatty.

I understand what you mean, because I thought of you as collector. I would have agreed with you in the past, but I have changed my concepts. The advantages of owning digital games would be:

• Optimization of physical space;

• Storing in the cloud of your collection;

• Digital documents are easier because they allow search;

• Old-fashioned protection has disappeared;

• Discs and manuals do not deteriorate over time;

• There are extras such as Wallpapers, OST, Artbooks, Artworks, etc.

This is only my opinion and without the intention of offending you or anyone else.

I understand what you mean and respect your view on storing the game digitally. Personally I'm not a fan of cloud storages as you can't access those if you have no internet, data privacy is a huge leak nowadays as well, and besides there's always the chance for the servers to go down for one or the other reason, which is usually part of the disclaimer on those sites as well, and you're left without the game.

There's a middle ground though which I personally prefer to use - with games which I like and have I create a Winrar archive with the sub-folders in game folder, with all the possible box prints, walthroughs and other extras, compress it to maximum and add a recovery record in case the archive ever gets damaged for some reason. Those backups for easy access are stored on a big storage-size USB-connected hard drive, which itself has a backup mirror on another such hard drive.
Benefit - I can take those portable hard drives with me if I'm travelling around, 100% no necessity of, or dependance on internet, and great safety of all games I owe.

But that's just me going the safe way anyway, and I can understand if using digital cloud storage is more comfortable for others.

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Originally Posted by Scatty (Post 467613)

Hi Scatty,

I agree with you because I suffered when the site GameDownloads.com shut down and I demanded reimbursement from Gamesplanet.com. I won £ 10.00 as compensation.

I also use the middle way, but digitally. I download games from GOG.com, Gamersgate.com and Gamesplanet.com only from games that do not need an account on Steam, Origin and Ubisoft. Usually old games, indie games or lesser known developer.