Joonas Hirvonen’s new Ultimapper 5 is an interesting companion app for Ultima 5. It displays a HUD above the game window, and a map of the player’s current location — in a town, dungeon, the Underworld, or Britannia — in another window beside the game window. The map can either be set to be completely revealed, or to be uncovered “fog of war”-style as the player explores. The HUD, meanwhile, displays the current party, and the stats for each member thereof.

As well, Ultimapper 5 includes a few helpful features, such as an automatic level-up feature that raises the level of a character who accrues enough experience, and also assigns one attribute point randomly. A (somewhat more experimental) auto-combat feature is also included; the limited AI thereof does not use spells in combat, though it can switch weapons based on the kind of adversary being faced. Also included are a few debug — read: cheat — functions, such as teleporting, a dialogue viewer, time control, and a character editor.

Ultimapper 5 is Windows-exclusive, and has primarily been designed for the GOG version of Ultima 5. That said, any installation of the game being run through DOSBox should work with it. You can grab a download of it at Joonas’ website, or at the new project entry here at the Codex.