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Beautiful Britannia 2011 vs 2010 Comparison

Beautiful Britannia 2011 vs 2010 Comparison

I posted news about the release of Beautiful Britannia 2011 R1 last week, and was suitably impressed by the list of details that Firstknight sent my way concerning the changes he’d made. But I...

The Codex has been updated

The Codex has been updated

The gents who run the Codex of Ultima Wisdom have been busy making many updates to their wiki, which (as most of you should know) recently moved over to Aiera’s server after parting ways...

Titans of Ether November update

Titans of Ether November update

As in November 2010. But whatever. Anyhow, the penultimate month of 2010 was a fairly productive one for the Titans. Zini finished his work on their smithing system, so sword and armour forging is...

Oh…I feel old now

Oh…I feel old now

It gets worse when I consider that my grandkids, if ever I have, will probably have no clue what the heck a CD was. They may not even know what a DVD was, since...

New Gallery: Wild Basin Expedition images

New Gallery: Wild Basin Expedition images

Oh, those wily OSI employees! Courtesy of Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present these eight (8) photographs of the “Wild Basin Expedition” Team (a.k.a. the development and production...

Aiera is now hosting the Morrowind 2011 site

Aiera is now hosting the Morrowind 2011 site

Right here. Tyler “Warwon” Smith is known to myself and many others by a slightly older nickname: Warwon Dragon. He was briefly part of my Lost Sosaria team, and we’ve been in semi-regular contact...

Beautiful Britannia 2011 R1 released!

Beautiful Britannia 2011 R1 released!

Well, isn’t it a happy new year? Firstknight surprised me overnight by uploading his latest release of Beautiful Britannia, which focuses on improving texture quality and playability in Yew. As you can see from...

Neverwinter Nights 2 now available on Steam

Neverwinter Nights 2 now available on Steam

You can file this under “it’s about friggin’ time.” That’s right, Dragons and Dragonettes…Steam has finally added Obsidian’s Neverwinter Nights 2 to its catalogue of games. It currently retails for $20 USD (well, $19.99…),...

Ultima V on a Passport MIDI card

Ultima V on a Passport MIDI card

Over at ByteCellar (the vintage computing weblog), blogger blakespot has linked to a YouTube video of the title screen from Ultima 5, with audio being handled by the dual-card Passport Wavetable MIDI card. It...