Monthly Archive: September 2010

EA and Activision execs trade barbs

EA and Activision execs trade barbs

Apropos of the discussion that took place in this article, you Dragons and Dragonettes might be interested to read about a wee dust-up that took place between EA and Activision executives over the weekend:...

Sergorn Dragon continues his Ultima adventures

Sergorn Dragon continues his Ultima adventures

If you haven’t already checked out Sergorn Dragon’s Ultima Adventures blog, go thou and do so. He doesn’t necessarily go into as much detail about each individual game (he’s already up to Ultima Underworld,...

Richard Garriott: "Kids today!"

Richard Garriott: "Kids today!"

Ultima creator and private astronaut Richard Garriott has issued a short response, on Twitter, to this bit of admittedly sorry news. His opener: And a follow-up comment: I think most of my own thoughts...

Beautiful Britannia: Retexturing!

Beautiful Britannia: Retexturing!

Firstknight left a couple comments on the previous post here at Aiera concerning his progress on Beautiful Britannia. Easily the biggest news he brings this time around is that he is working on a...

14,000 players: Ultima 4 Flash Version

14,000 players: Ultima 4 Flash Version

According to a briefly visible revision to the Ultima 4 entry at the Codex of Editable Wisdom, Blair Leggett’s Flash-based port of Ultima 4 has had over distinct 14,000 players between May and September...

Restored: Bremze

Restored: Bremze

This alternative slowdown utility, which reduces the speed at which older programs run on modern CPUs, is once again available for download.

Restored: AdPlug

Restored: AdPlug

The versatile, open source, cross-platform AdLib player, with plugins for XMMS and WinAmp, is once again available for download.

Ultima 4…unplayable?

Ultima 4…unplayable?

The Brainy Gamer — who in real life teaches a class in which he periodically subjects his students to classic computer games like Fallout and Planetfall — has written an interesting article that really...