Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 13 – Ultima On the Go
In which we look at ways to get the Ultima games up and running on mobile devices. This is relatively easy in the case of Ultimas 1 through 8…but what about Ultima 9?
In which we look at ways to get the Ultima games up and running on mobile devices. This is relatively easy in the case of Ultimas 1 through 8…but what about Ultima 9?
Apple’s latest iOS update, version 8.3, prevents applications like iFunBox from transferring files to apps on iDevices. This may impair the ability to load Ultima games into iDOS or Power DOS.
A new DOS emulator for iOS, Power DOS, offers a full-featured alternative to the iDOS DOSBox port.
iOS developer Litchie is working on an iOS-native port of Exult.
IDOS, the first DOSBox port released for iOS, is also available once again in some App Store storefronts around the world.
Chaoji Li has re-released IDOS 2, a full-featured DOSBox port, on the iOS App Store. You should probably grab this now, lest Apple pull it down.
The only way — at present — to run Ultima games on your Apple iDevice is to jailbreak it. For iPad 2 owners, this has been a major obstacle…until today.
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...
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...