NorwegianRockCat, one of the developers working on xu4 (and then specifically on the Apple iOS port thereof) emailed me to announce that he has created a trailer of sorts, which demonstrates some of the features and functionality of the currently iPad-only port of the Ultima 4 engine:

There’s a lot of neat stuff shown off in the video; you not only get a sense for how the game runs on the iPad screen and under iOS, but also get a look at how they’ve implemented some of the other elements of the game (e.g. the spellbook) using common iOS interface elements. It actually works quite well!

Interested Dragons and Dragonettes can grab the iOS port of xu4 from a recent code commit at the project’s SourceForge page. To build it and install it on your iPad, you will need to have three things: an iPad (obviously), a Mac (or a Hackintosh — OS X is the actual requirement here), and Xcode.