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Article #437Re: Skara Brae?
From: ame... Keith Steiger
Date: Sat, 16 May 1992 02:32
Date: Sat, 16 May 1992 02:32
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In article <1992May16.0...@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> ceba...@napier.waterloo.edu (Casey Barton) writes: >In article <1992May15.1...@tc.cornell.edu>, j...@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Brian Chung) writes: >> In article <1992May15.1...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jnl...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jeffrey N Long) writes: >> > I posted this question on rec.games.misc, but I'll ask it here, since this >> >is the correct place for it. Is Skara Brae in U7 the same Skara Brae from >> >Bards Tale I? I'm pretty sure that was the name of the city in BT1. If so, >> >did Origin steal/buy/own the name or is there a Skara Brae in Germany? >> >> Why is everyone out to get Origin? Jeez. Skara Brae was in U3. I >> don't know about U1 or U2, though. BT1 came after U3. My understanding is >> that Origin licensed the name to EOA so that they could use the name. > > Actually, there *is* a real Scara Brae, in either Scotland or Ireland. >(I think Scotland, though...) So I don't see how anyone could have >licensed the name... I noticed this myself. In fact, if you look at a map of Scotland, Scara Brae is on an island. Even stranger, if you turn the map of Scotland so that this island is to the left, the map begins to look a little too familiar.... Ultima fanatics should try this and see for themselves. So, how many readers of this group also read comp.sys.[amiga,mac].games? -- Keith Steiger--ameiba@reed.edu--"I am what you see. I cannot be otherwise." Disclaimer: Reed College tries very hard to ignore its students' opinions.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!reed!ameiba From: ame...@reed.edu (Keith Steiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Subject: Re: Skara Brae? Message-ID: <1992May16.023253.26214@reed.edu> Date: 16 May 92 02:32:53 GMT Article-I.D.: reed.1992May16.023253.26214 References: <1992May15.142645.14259@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992May15.173426.18608@tc.cornell.edu> <1992May16.013656.21268@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 26 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit