The Exult team dropped some significant news today: version 1.10 of the cross-platform engine for Ultima 7: The Black Gate and Ultima 7 Part 2: Serpent Isle has been released:

A much needed update of Exult and Exult Studio.
Much needed as we fixed a crash when entering combat pretty soon after the 1.8 release and of course people encounter this again and again.

But we fixed much more since the 1.8 release:

• The Android port is now fully working
• The Windows installer now offers to install several mods
• New Volume Mixer to set individual volumes for music, sfx and speech
• Cheat Screen overhauled so the options can now be activated by clicking or touching
• Much improved combat:
  • Default attack mode “nearest” and attack mode “random” will try to select an enemy that is not already targeted by a party member
  • Faking defend by selecting weakest enemy when low health, nearest otherwise
  • more blood
• Better detecting of clicks on gumps over the shortcutbar to prevent accidental triggering of a shortcut
• mt32emu driver resampling fix
• Endgames now wait for ingame speech to finish
• Background sound effect music tracks are less annoying and disabled for FMOpl music driver
• Music looping improved
• Exult Studio allows zooming of the shapes view
• Fixed a crash when swapping weapons in combat
• Fixed random crash on sleeping past midnight in Britain
• Attacking locked doors did not work
• Immobile NPCs were able to move (e.g. Reapers)
• Enemies poison now

You can grab the latest downloads for Windows, Mac OS, and Android (which will require sideloading/enabling installation from unknown sources) from the project’s downloads page, or at the Exult project entry here at the Codex.