Restored: VICE
The Versatile Commodore Emulator began as a Linux-based emulator for the Commodore 64, which some of the earlier Ultimas were built for or ported to. It has since grown into a cross-platform project, with...
Monthly Archive: September 2010
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
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!"
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...
Mythic Entertainment working on DOSboxed version of Wing Commander (updated)
Updated with new tweets from Barnett; original post below. First, it looks like he’ll be presenting the idea to BioWare honcho Ray Muzyka today: And he even teases the possibility of a free release:...
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
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
This alternative slowdown utility, which reduces the speed at which older programs run on modern CPUs, is once again available for download.
Restored: AdPlug
The versatile, open source, cross-platform AdLib player, with plugins for XMMS and WinAmp, is once again available for download.
