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Re:Ultima Underworld bugs by hcles on Monday February 21, 2011 @03:26PM (#2247003)
Do you know which developer in UW2 was responsible for the Servant Strike bug? That glitch wasted 6 weeks of my life! I recently started playing UW2 again through Dosbox, using a character editor written in 1994 to change save files is humbling.

I would read a book or 10 full of these old-school game developing anecdotes.

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Re:Ultima Underworld bugs by dfan on Monday February 21, 2011 @03:51PM (#2247115)
I do, but he's paid me to keep quiet... Truthfully, he was pretty upset about having caused it at the time.

The worst thing was that you triggered the bug at the beginning of the game, but didn't discover that it had made the game unwinnable until the end.

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Re:Ultima Underworld bugs by aerique on Monday February 21, 2011 @04:18PM (#2247227)
These were posted here recently (in case you missed them): http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...
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