It’s been a while since Cambragol has posted an update to the website for his Ultima 4 expansion, Threat of the Trinity, but this week there’s exciting news to be found thereat:

September 16th, 2025 will be the 40th anniversary of the release of Ultima IV on the Apple II. To celebrate this occasion, Threat of the Trinity will be available for download from that date. Stay tuned to this page for more release info.

Now, there is a bit of unfortunate news as well, to go along with this. Some time ago, Cambragol expressed the desire to produce a physical box with various “feelies” (maps, manuals, all the good stuff) for this project. Sadly, this is no longer the case:

I did not find a way to make the feelies happen, though I really, really, reeeeally tried. Mostly it came down to 3 factors: 1. Insufficient interest: The cost to produce certain aspects of the feelies (mainly the box and the book) was too high, and additionally required a bare minimum of 250 orders (more depending on the printer(s)) With less than 100 interested parties, the production/cost ratio was too high. 2. Anonymity: I wanted to maintain my anonymity, and requesting cash from people, while holding to that, was just not going to work. 3: Drama: I’ve seen way too many crowd sourced ventures devolve into absolute nightmares. Didn’t look forward to that. I tried to offset that by finishing EVERTHING first, but still, production/delivery snafus seem common.

Even so, Threat of the Trinity will finally — after five years in development — be seeing a digital release, to coincide with the fourth decade of the Ultima game that inspired it. And along the way, it got a lot more expansive than Cambragol had initially planned, which hopefully means there’ll be just that much more of it to enjoy.