Ultima III had this weird quirk where you could draw a "path" across the map by killing monsters and not opening the chest they'd drop. We'd do that between tow

Ultima III had this weird quirk where you could draw a "path" across the map by killing monsters and not opening the chest they'd drop. We'd do that between towns / important locations: we'd surround our desired line with unopened chess all around or path, leaving only one "square" line (a line with a width of one square). That way it'd be very rare that monsters would spawn in our path and we could travel across the map really quick. That trick wasn't working in Ultima IV anymore. As a sidenote, I find this one mindboggling: an Apple ][e with a MIDI interface which Ultima V supported back in... 1988. The Apple ][e is hooked to old Roland gear. It looks and sounds georgous, amazing stuff (skip to 12m to hear a demo): https://youtu.be/aJMwspc-5wk https://youtu.be/aJMwspc-5wk