Please welcome the new forum
I’ve gone ahead and replaced phpBB with a Vanilla-powered forum instead. The old Sword & Shield, with its pretty — but visually distinct — template is still there, but will remain locked down for...
Category: Site News
Back to Roots progress; possible U5 bug?
For the most part, Fearyourself/JC has been working on upgrading Nytegard’s Ultima 5 tools (which I really need to add to Aiera); he goes into detail about the differences between his versions and Nytegard’s...
New U9BB.EXE provides a fogless experience!
Firstknight sends the following by email: Finally, after many many hours of intensive research for more than one year, I can present Beautiful Britannia in a new, completely fogless experience, on any system up...
Arx Fatalis GL…that didn't really take long
The game’s source code has been freely available for less than a week, and already there is an effort underway to port the game to OpenGL, and to clean up the Win32 types used...
Added: Ultima Textures for Minecraft.
As the project name suggests, this is a package of textures to replace the default texture set in Minecraft, which will make the scenery look a little more Ultima-like. The majority of the textures...
Arx Fatalis updated; source code released
Sergorn Dragon and Hexxxer both alerted me to this…so thanks, gents. Here’s RPGWatch‘s report on it. The long and short: Arkane Studios have released what is probably going to be the final patch for...
Nazghul was also updated recently
Or, at least, the Windows version was. The Mac version of this engine is still at version 0.7.0; the Windows version is now at 0.7.1. Either way, you can find the latest files (plus...
Pentagram updated
I just happened to notice that the Windows binary snapshot for Pentagram had been updated recently. I have added the new version to the project entry here.
Added: Exult for Dingux (as in: a download!)
I added the project entry for this Exult port a while ago, but at the time its developer hadn’t released anything other than a YouTube video demonstrating an early version of the port in...
Things seem to be screwy (also: I'm shutting off the forum for now)
Downloads are apparently non-functional, and I had to disable the forum cross-posting plugin yesterday because it was reporting a database error. I am investigating. Update: And now it appears I may need to disable...
