Andrew Taylor’s SDL-based re-creation of Ultima 4 was intended to be a cross-platform version of the game, much as Exult is for Ultima 7.

The project fell dormant after 2008, but has since been restarted (as of January 2011) by Darren Janeczek, who intends to clean up the code, improve xu4?s performance, and possibly even experiment with porting the game to a mobile platform. He has even set up a new forum for curious Ultima fans to speak their minds and ask questions in.

And, since Ultima 4 is freeware, Taylor (like many others) also made available for download the original PC version of the game. Taking a long-overdue cue from this, I’ve added a download for the PC version of Ultima 4 to Aiera.

I’ve also corrected and/or updated the downloads at the xu4 project entry. So what art thou waiting for? Grab thee a copy and get playing!