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	Akalabeth - Definition, explanation
		Akalabeth: World of Doom, released in 1980 for the Apple II, is recognized as one of the first commercial computer role-playing games (though it was begun as a hobbyist project) and as a precursor of the Ultima series of games that started Richard Garriott's career.
		Naturally, Akalabeth's dungeon crawl gameplay and graphics are very crude by modern standards, but this did not stop the game from attracting a large amount of attention.
		Since Akalabeth was written in BASIC, it was a simple matter for users to modify the source code to suit their needs or desires.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/ak/akalabeth.php (683 words)

	Akalabeth -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In creating Akalabeth, Garriott was primarily inspired by (Click link for more info and facts about Dungeons & Dragons) Dungeons & Dragons and the works of (Click link for more info and facts about J. Tolkien) J.
		Though not explicitly stated, Akalabeth is seen as the first game of the (Click link for more info and facts about Ultima) Ultima series, a very popular and influential series of computer role-playing games.
		Since Akalabeth was written in BASIC, it was a simple matter for users to modify the (Program instructions written as an ASCII text file; must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution) source code to suit their needs or desires.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ak/akalabeth.htm (556 words)

	Akalabeth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akalabeth: World of Doom, released in 1980 for the Apple II, is recognized as one of the first commercial computer role-playing games (though it was begun as a hobbyist project) and as a precursor of the Ultima series of games that started Richard Garriott's career.
		Naturally, Akalabeth's dungeon crawl gameplay and graphics are very crude by modern standards, but this did not stop the game from attracting a large amount of attention.
		Since Akalabeth was written in BASIC, it was a simple matter for users to modify the source code to suit their needs or desires.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akalabeth (683 words)

	akalabeth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Akalabeth, created in 1979 for the Apple II, is recognized as one of the first computer role-playing games and as a precursor of the Ultima series of games.
		Akalabeth, Garriott's 28th game he produced in his high school years, became his first significant commercial game.
		Though not explicitly stated, Akalabeth is seen as the first game of the Ultima series, a very popular and influential series of computer role-playing games.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /akalabeth.html (367 words)

	Mondain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The young Mondain was born somewhere in the lands of Sosaria.
		Second born son of the powerful wizard Wolfgang, King of the city-state of Akalabeth.
		He and the young British, Champion of the White Light, had an epic battle deep within the labyrinth of dungeons, where he was defeated and driven away from the kingdom of Akalabeth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mondain (625 words)

	Akalabeth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The game was made in the summer of 1979 by then-teenaged RichardGarriott in the BASIC programming language for the Apple II while working at a Computerland retail store in Austin, Texas.
		Akalabeth, Garriott's 28th game he producedin his high school years, became his first significant commercial game.
		Naturally, Akalabeth's gameplay and graphics are very crude by modern standards, but this did not stop the game fromattracting a large amount of attention.
	www.therfcc.org /akalabeth-54564.html (307 words)

	Akalabeth: World of Doom for Apple II - MobyGames
		Akalabeth was one of the first computer role-playing games and is the precursor to the Ultima Series.
		As either a fighter or a mage, it is your job to explore Akalabeth, descend into the dungeons and vanquish the beasts dwelling within.
		When he later wrote Ultima 1 for California Pacific the entire code of Akalabeth was included as a subroutine for the dungeon levels.
	www.mobygames.com /game/akalabeth-world-of-doom (375 words)

	Trigon Dragon’s Ultima Dox: Akalabeth
		Continuitywise, it seems to occur between Ultima I and Ultima II, since Lord British has vanquished Mondain (presumably with help :-), and your quest is to kill the evil monsters that are still hanging around.
		Around 1980, Richard Garriott wrote Akalabeth, a small hack & slash role-playing-game for the Apple II.
		A game publisher saw one of the homemade games and snapped up the budding programmer to write Ultima, which was essentially Akalabeth’s dungeon subroutines with better surface graphics and a better plot.
	members.aol.com /trigonman3/akal.html (123 words)

	The Collectible ULTIMA
		Akalabeth was Richard Garriott's first commercial game, the one that inspired Ultima.
		But what most people don't realize about the story are the 30 or more games Richard wrote before Akalabeth; each one written to teach himself programming, each one thrown away when he was done, only to move on to the next.
		The original painting from which this cover was taken is called "Wrong Way" (as in, this is the WRONG WAY to summon a daemon!), and is by Denis Loubet.
	www.notableultima.com /collectibles/Title_Aka.html (543 words)

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		Akalabeth (AK1 - Original Version - Mine Jr) This is a PC port done by Mine Jr of the original Akalabeth game created by Richard Garriott way back in the near-forgotten archaic age of 1979.
		Akalabeth (AK2 - Remake - Mine Jr) This is Mine Jr's recreation of Akalabeth with some basic tile-based graphics and backgrounds.
		Akalabeth (AK3 with Graphics Addon - 2K1 Beta v1.02 - Mine Jr) This is a later Akalabeth recreation done by Mine Jr that sadly never left the beta stage.
	www.sonic.net /~zakule/UltimaClassics/UltimaClassics-v1.2.txt (5469 words)

	Station Information - Akalabeth
		Akalabeth was one of the first computer games made.
		It was created by then-teenaged Richard Garriott in 1978, who distributed the game himself by collaborating with computer store owners in Austin, Texas.
		(It is for this reason that some gamers call Akalabeth the ancestor of all console and computer role-playing games, although several other seminal influences, such as Rogue, exist.) Naturally, Akalabeth's gameplay and graphics are very crude by modern standards, but this did not stop the game from attracting a large amount of attention.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/a/ak/akalabeth.html (160 words)

	From Akalabeth to Ascension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Akalabeth - World of Doom is the title of what is most often referred to as Ultima 0.
		The word Akalabeth Richard Garriott probably lend from J.R.R Tolkien in whose universe it is spelt Akallabeth with a double l.
		With this in mind the plot line of Ultima IX proves to fit even better, as the true ending and last chapter of the Ultima saga.
	www.salikon.dk /p5.html (155 words)

	Akalabeth - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Akalabeth, released in 1980 for the Apple II, is recognized as one of the first computer role-playing games and as a precursor of the Ultima series of games that started Richard Garriott's career.
		Akalabeth, based on Garriott's 28th game he produced in his high school years, became his first significant commercial game.
		Naturally, Akalabeth's gameplay and graphics are very crude by modern standards, but this did not stop the game from attracting a large amount of attention.
	www.music.us /education/A/Akalabeth.htm (808 words)

	Encyclopedia: Akalabeth
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Akalabeth (1629 words)

	History of Sosaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		These lands later became known as Akalabeth, Ambrosia, Lands of Danger and Despair, Lands of the Feudal Lords, Lands of the Dark Unknown.
		King Wolfgang of Akalabeth begets two sons; the name of the first is lost to history, the second was named Mondain.
		The citizens of Akalabeth proclaimed Cantabrigian British as the Lord of the land.
	www.councilofnine.org /rp/atlas/Sosaria.html (360 words)

	Akalabeth
		It came with a 4 page booklet that was pretty large in size.
		Akalabeth 1980 CP Release(Full Color cover art and manual copied by Origin Systems)
		Akalabeth 1981 CP Release(Original Disk and color Instructions copied by Origin Systems)
	www.netassoc.net /ultima/software11.htm (258 words)

	Akalabeth download @ Game Downloads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Akalabeth, or so called Ultima 0, was the game that started the Ultima saga.
		Akalabeth Remake is an excellent fan-made remake of Akalabeth, the game that marks a true beginning of Richard Garriott’s famous career as one of the world’s best known designers.
		I created Akalabeth for me, in the summer after my senior year in high school when I was working at a ComputerLand store.
	free-game-downloads.mosw.com /abandonware/pc/role_playing_games/games_c/akalabeth.html (702 words)

	Lord British - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the real world, Richard Garriott (born in Britain but raised in the United States) acquired the nickname "Lord British" as a teenager from older students in his school who claimed he spoke with a British accent.
		Garriott released early games, such as Akalabeth, under the name and occasionally appeared in Ultima Online playing as Lord British.
		He is still known as Lord British even after his departure from Ultima maker Origin Systems: Garriott retained the trademark rights to the name Lord British with its associated symbols, and he has suggested that the character will appear in his new "Tabula Rasa" game.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_British (1057 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This is a port to the pc using the orginal Basic code.
		This is my current version of the newest Akalabeth Remake.
		This is my first public release of my Akalabeth 3D dungeon.
	www.geocities.com /AkalabethRemake/pg3.htm (173 words)

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		Many years had Mondain traversed the lands of Akalabeth spreading evil and death as he passed.
		Now blood flowed freely in Akalabeth and foul creatures soon came to roam near the surface.
		Mondain cast such sickness and pestilence upon Akalabeth that both man and beast lived in constant fear.
	www.salikon.dk /u0.txt (727 words)

	- Akalabeth - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Lord British) originally wrote Akalabeth as a hobby project and never intended for it to be sold, however a friend talked him into offering it at a local computer store.
		Commonly referred to as "Ultima O," Akalabeth has no real plot or ending, nor the ability to save games.
		Akalabeth was the first ever piece of software to use the "tile" system of rendering graphics, where displays are assembled from a set of pre-defined graphic "tiles."
	www.frpg.org /u0.html (176 words)

	Akalabeth -- Neverwinter Nights Vault
		The 'Akalabeth' mod is designed for many, many variations of gameplay.
		Akalabeth contains dozens of areas, including a village (complete with tavern, shops, wilderness, etc.), several dungeons, a glistening glade, a housing area with many deep, dark secrets, the Plains of Adventure, the Southern Lands and of course, the Void.
		BTW, we use the term "Akalabeth" as it relates to our online community, not necessarily the term as Tolkien meant it to be.
	nwvault.ign.com /Files/modules/data/1027647395403.shtml (1260 words)

	Akalabeth - SkyGamers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The majority of gameplay takes place in a dungeon rendered in simply first-person perspective graphics, with a simple above-ground map and text to fill out the rest of the adventure.
		Since Akalabeth was written in Basic, it was a simple matter for users to modify the programming to suit their needs or desires.
		For example, the game's magic wand, which occasionally did unpredictable things like turn a player into a high-powered Lizard Man, could be set to do so with every use, thereby making the player virtually indestructible.
	www.skygamers.com /Akalabeth (438 words)

	Akalabeth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Many years ago, the Dark Lord Mondain, archfoe of Lord British, traversed the land of Akalabeth, spreading evil and death as he passed.
		By the time Mondain was driven from the land by Lord British, Bearer of the White Light, he had done much damage to the lands.
		Since the PC Akalabeth is a remake from the Apple version, colors have been added.
	www.classicgaming.com /rpg/REVIEW/Akalabeth/review1.htm (259 words)

	Origin Museum-Provenance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Swofford's opinion was that because most of the people attending the faire were UO fans-- not Ultima fans, hardly anyone knew what an Akalabeth was, and he was kind of disappointed that the price was so low (it WAS for charity, after all).
		The Akalabeth came with a COA--saying, that "this version was assembled in his mother's kitchen in Houston, Texas in 1980." It is signed by Richard Garriott HIMSELF (and Lord British :)), but the date at the bottom says November 2nd, 2000.
		To sum up, here are the facts about the Akalabeths that the Museum owns, in order to give as much information as possible to other people interested in them.
	originmuseum.solsector.net /stories/story1.htm (1271 words)

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		On the Apple II you may play Akalabeth, Richard Garriot's first Ultima game released long ago as well as Ultima I-V. You do not need an Apple II itself to play though.
		There you will find Akalabeth, Ultima I, II, III, IV and V. These disks have been compressed by a unix form of compression known as GZIP.
		If you've been wondering what Akalabeth was now you have it.
	www.apple2.org.za /gswv/a2zine/Docs/Ultima_faq.txt (1736 words)

	Akalabeth cheats and cheat codes for the Apple II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Akalabeth cheats and cheat codes for the Apple II Home :: Forum :: Search :: About
		We strive to give you the best up to date cheats for Akalabeth.
		Akalabeth cheats, hints and tips for the can all be found here.
	www.vgindex.com /games/apple-ii/1481/Akalabeth.html (80 words)

	Ultima Emulator FAQ -- Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Than, basically, you explore the Akalabeth, World of Doom and do quests for Lord British.
		Here's what I've found out about Akalabeth: Once it sets your stats, you start in a town.
		Here is a new version (23-Nov-96) of Akalabeth for PC.
	strobel.secure.at /ultima/akalabeth.html (486 words)

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