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unusual facts about Ultima


Ultima: Escape from Mt. Drash

The seller from Tucson, Arizona, had bought the game about a decade earlier from a Commodore enthusiast, along with other games, and had it in his closet for ten years.


Equatoguinean literature in Spanish

Writers from the diaspora also wrote narratives of exile: for example, El sueño (The Dream) and La travesía (The Crossing) by Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (Niefang, Río Muni, 1950-), La última carta del Padre Fulgencio Abad, C. M. F. (The Last Letter of Father Fulgencio Abad, C. M. F.) by Maplal Loboch (1912-1976), and Bea by Francisco Zamora Loboch (Santa Isabel, 1947-).

Fox Deportes

La Ultima Palabra - This new program focuses on Mexican Football and the Mexican national team.

Gustavo Laureano

The following year, Puerto Rican singer Ednita Nazario recorded the song "Ultima Vez", also written by Laureano, on her 1996 album Espíritu Libre.

Isabeau Méndez

Born in Miami Beach, Florida, and raised in Panama, she has performed acting roles in stage productions such as Peter Pan, Legally Blonde, Aladdin, Victor/Victoria, Beauty and the Beast, Fiddler On The Roof (all musicals) and television shows such as Sueños de Verano, Cantando por un Sueño, La Ultima Hora, Lobby T.V. and ¿Quien T.V.?

Lord British

Ultima series creator Richard Garriott acquired the nickname "British" as a teenager from friends at computer camp who claimed his first greeting to them, "hello", was distinct from the American "hi"; The "Lord" prefix was added when he played the dungeon master in Dungeons & Dragons games.

Lord Cantabrigian British is the name of the fictional ruler of Britannia, kingdom of the fictional world of Sosaria, created by Richard Garriott for his computer game series Ultima.

María Elena Meneses Rocha

From 1995 to 2001 she was a correspondent with Univision, covering political, economic and social stories on shows such as Noticiero Nacional, ¡Despierta América! and Ultima Hora.

Mateo Guez

Since then Guez has directed music videos for a variety of European and Canadian artists including Molly Johnson, as well as directing the much lauded short film, L’Ultima Notte, which was screened at a variety of prestigious festivals worldwide in 2003 – including The Toronto International Film Festival, the 26th Clermont-Ferrand International short film festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Inside Out Toronto Gay and Lesbian Film festival.

Patricia Conde

Sé lo que hicisteis..., la Sexta(2006–2011), with Ángel Martín, before called Sé lo que hicisteis la última semana.

Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli

As a cinematographer he has worked on such films as L’ultima neve di primavera and as co-director (under the pseudonym Robert Barrett) on Beyond the Door and Tentacles directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis; he also co-directed Laure, together with Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane, Emmanuelle Arsan's husband.

Software developer

Some of the notable software people include Peter Norton (developer of Norton Utilities), Richard Garriott (Ultima-series creator), and Philippe Kahn (Borland key founder), all of whom started as entrepreneurial individual or small-team software developers.

The Curse of Fenric

(The "ULTIMA machine" of the story is based on the real Enigma machine.) In an interview for the DVD release of this story, Briggs said that since at that time it was not considered appropriate to depict a character's struggle with homosexuality in a family programme, he transformed Turing's frustration at being unable to express his true sexual identity into Judson's frustration at being crippled.

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar

After proving his or her understanding in each of the virtues, locating several artifacts and finally descending into the dungeon called the Stygian Abyss to gain access to the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom, the protagonist becomes an Avatar.

Ultima Online

The worlds were called Felucca and Trammel, after the two moons in Ultima's Britannia world.

Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge (24 February 2002) brought "a dark new world based on new characters from Todd McFarlane" to Ultima Online with improved game artificial intelligence, in-game help, and improved character creation.

Ultima V: Lazarus

As a tribute to his efforts, Ultima fans bought for him a crossbow made by David R. Watson, the real world inspiration for the recurring Ultima character Iolo.

Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny

Ultima V used a modified form of the Elder Futhark runic alphabet for some game text, adding some letters to make a complete one-to-one correspondence with the English alphabet (plus a few runes to represent some common two-letter combinations).

Ultima VIII: Pagan

Unlike Ultima VII which used Intel's undocumented "Big real mode" which became known as Voodoo Memory at Origin, Ultima VIII used a more conventional DOS extender.

Ultima X: Odyssey

Ultima X: Odyssey was the first Ultima game developed after series creator Richard Garriott left Origin, and is the second Ultima-based MMORPG to be cancelled (Ultima Worlds Online: Origin — Ultima Online 2 — was cancelled in 2001).


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