Ultima I-VI Series

The Ultima I-VI Series is a game compilation that contains the first six Ultima games. It is essentially a combination of the first trilogy and the second trilogy into one package, with all the games on one CD. It was released by Origin in 1993.

The contents are:


 * "Ultima Trilogy Manual"
 * "Age of Virtue Manual"
 * Three cardboard maps for Ultima I-III.
 * The cardboard map of Ultima VI.

Trivia

 * As with the first Ultima Trilogy, Sierra refused to sell the rights to the real Ultima II cover art back to Origin. Thus, a placeholder (derived from the California Pacific cover art for Akalabeth) is once again used.
 * This collection is notorious as the point where the PC Ultima II became broken. Originally, the game came on three sides of two 5.25" floppy disks, during a time when MS-DOS didn't support sub-directories.  Some files on different floppies, such as the planet maps on the "Galactic" disk side, had the same name, which wasn't necessarily a problem when people played the game from floppies; it would simply prompt the player to insert the correct disk. However, when the CD-ROM collection was put together, Origin had to place all the Ultima II files into a single directory (as the game wouldn't know what to do with sub-directories, having predated them).  As a result, the planet maps from the Galactic disk were inadvertently overwritten by files with the same name from the Program disk, making the game unwinnable. This error was never corrected by Origin, and as future re-releases of the series (most notably the Ultima Collection in 1998) derived its archival copies of Ultima II from this compilation, the bug carried over to those versions as well. (Thankfully, a fan patch corrects the error and restores the original map files.)
 * Ironically, Origin only released this collection after another contractor had created the exactly same package, only with a different cover, a year earlier.