On the Future of xu4
Time Machine Dragon has been thinking about the future of xu4 and whether the project should continue to be worked on.
Time Machine Dragon has been thinking about the future of xu4 and whether the project should continue to be worked on.
Mike McShaffry, the project director for Ultima 8, graciously agreed to answer a number of questions from the Ultima fandom.
Pix has made a small update to his venerable Ultima Patcher for Windows, which supports the version 2 installer GOG are using for their standalone version of Ultima 4.
Android ports of Exult, the cross-platform Ultima 7 engine, have existed for a while now, but Lanica Dragon has undertaken the effort of porting the engine to Apple’s iOS mobile operating system.
Sam Jeff Nichols has released a small patch that corrects the character import issue affecting the GOG release of Ultima 5.
It would appear that the fix for errors related to Ultima 7’s “earthquake” effect in DOSBox also corrects another issue.
GOG have updated their version of Ultima 8; an OS X download is now available.
Xenerkes Dragon’s utility for modifying savegame files from the early Ultimas has had a needed DLL file added to it, and a Wineskin-wrapped version for OS X users is now available.
Pix has updated his patching utility for the Ultima games to address some issues with GOG’s Ultima releases.
Pix has added the earthquake fix for Ultima 7 (under DOSBox) to his Ultima Patcher.