New Download: WDOSX
A DOS extender that can be used to patch the PC DOS executable for Akalabeth, rendering it functional under DOSBox.
Tagged: DOSBox
UltimaForever.Com Launches (For Real, This Time!)
After leaking a couple days early, the UltimaForever.com website has gone livem offering a little bit of Ultima history and a free download of Ultima 4.
Boxer for Mac now ships with the Ultima Underworld demo
Boxer, for those who don’t know the name, is a Mac port of DOSBox that claims to vastly simplify the process of playing DOS games using that software. Having used it, I’d say that...
Crap…iDOS got pulled from the App Store, again
Once again, the issue is that the program can run custom executables within itself. As the developer points out in this post, to comply with Apple’s App Store policy, he would effectively have to...
iDOS 2.0.1 available on the iTunes App Store
Some of you may recall the brief, shining moment of glory that the original iDOS iPhone app had: it appeared on the iTunes App Store one morning back in October, and was quickly yanked...
Quite literally the first computer game I ever played
As I mentioned in this post, the first three computer games I ever played, and then within the span of about eighteen months (and I can’t have been 7 years old at the end...
Ultima 6 in iDOS (with pictures!)
I finally managed to take a few minutes and get this working. I already had Ultima 6 installed on another machine for use with DOSbox, so getting the game into iDOS on my iPhone...
Ultima V for iPad: Updates and "How Tos"
Donn dropped me a short email to let me know that his project to get Ultima 5 working on the Apple iPad is progressing nicely. Not only did he drop this snazzy new screenshot...
Wing Commander 2 being tested for re-release?
It seems like BioWare Mythic are pressing ahead with their project to get DOSboxed versions of the old Origin games — or, at least, the Wing Commander and Ultima series — re-released via digital...
Lord of Ultima updates: Serpent Isle, Ascension, and Forge of Virtue?
Say what? EA Phenomic’s browser-based game, Lord of Ultima, which borrows the Ultima name but bears no other tangible relation to the RPG franchise, has announced a series of curiously-named updates to be released...
Mythic Entertainment working on DOSboxed version of Wing Commander (updated)
Updated with new tweets from Barnett; original post below. First, it looks like he’ll be presenting the idea to BioWare honcho Ray Muzyka today: And he even teases the possibility of a free release:...
