Sir John is the man behind several notable translation projects, including the translation of both Ultima 6 and (now) Ultima 7 into German, as well as the Ultima 6 Nitpicker’s Delight Patch. To help us keep track of his work, he has published a status update that covers all of his various projects.

I’ll suggest you click on through to read the whole thing in full. Here are a couple of highlights, however:

Ultima 6 Project German Language Patch for English Dungeon Siege:
For the moment this project is onhold, due to help I need: the server to compile the patch is set up, but the repository is missing and I cannot add it myself. Whatsmore, I need help in finding out what other files need to be translated. Although I have translated everything I know about, it makes no sense to poke around in the dark until the dear soul who agreed to help me, where I need help has some time to spare again.

And:

Ultima VI Nitpickers Patch:
With 19 of the most common nipticks addressed, I’m pretty satisfied with this patch. It works (at least for me it does!?) fine so far. I’ll be adding a modified start screen, so you know when you have the nitpickers versio installed. What is a real pity is the Quenton murder case. I had posted over at Nuvie forums as a first of a kind address in regard to Ultima VI, and just had to learn, that there might be no way to “get rid” of Michael after all. Appearantly, there is no code available in the conversion script that allows me to teleport or delete an NPC. In case this is proved wrong I’ll happily tweak the patch again to incorporate that, but for now the only solution seems to be (again) a contextual one: I’ll let Lenora ask the Avatar to turn in MIchael himslef due to a sudden lack of men ;-). That will make the player confront Michael with his doings and turns him hostile against the Avatar. Alas, he’ll be killed. Sorry to everyone who was hoping for a more virtous, and Karma-friendly way to solve this quest.

If anyone can lend Sir John a hand and some time to come up with solutions for these issues, I’m sure he’d appreciate that very much.