The recent publication of the Ultima Guide and it’s companion book raised my curiosity to see what I’m missing and if I have anything good that isn’t in there. This could prompt a handful of posts on here over coming weeks and months if I dig anything up. One of the rumoured items in the guide was an Ultima 7 patch disk which I can confirm does exist as I’ve got one:-
It contains the regular patch if the file size is anything to go by. I would imagine that there must have been hundreds, if not thousands of these at the time of Ultima 7. The game did after all have a major bug and we didn’t all have the internet back then to grab a patch.
A floppy disk is far too dull to warrant its own post, so I’ll liven it up with a picture of an Origin shopping bag:-
I have this disk somewhere in a box with a bunch of other floppies but I never had an Origin shopping bag. That is just too cool 🙂
There can’t be many of us who would describe an Origin carrier bag as cool but I know where you are coming from. I’ve plenty more Origin odds and ends which I’ll probably end up posting on here.
Do you know of anywhere I could get a disk image of this patch disk?
I thought I’d imaged it but I’m not seeing it in my floppy archive – I’ll get the Kryoflux set up have a look at putting that right if possible. Floppies that weren’t mass manufactured tend to be far less reliable – hopefully it still reads.
It still worked. You can download it from https://www.pixsoriginadventures.co.uk/Ultima7PatchDisk.img
I also found an Underworld 2 patch disk which is at https://www.pixsoriginadventures.co.uk/UW2PatchDisk.img