Announcing Two New Subdomains
Two new Ultima Codex subdomains have been launched, for Savage Empire and Martian Dreams.
Two new Ultima Codex subdomains have been launched, for Savage Empire and Martian Dreams.
Jeff Skalski posted a most interesting tweet today involving Ultima…and GOG.com.
The games comprising the Ultima series were, between 1981 and 1999, the defining computer role-playing games. Both the Western and Eastern RPG “schools”, if that is an appropriate term for them, were heavily inspired by the Ultima games, and still feature numerous gameplay and interface conventions that one Ultima or another introduced.
Sergorn Dragon posed an interesting question on Twitter last night, which I am now repeating here for further commentary by the Ultima fan community.
Eric Fry has just posted the second official release — at version 0.2 — of Nuvie, his Exult-like front-end for Ultima 6 (and, one day, Savage Empire and Martian Dreams as well).
A technology report/industry brochure from Origin Systems, profiling the company’s corporate culture and spotlighting several of its new and upcoming games (such as Ultima 7 and Wing Commander 2).
Courtesy of Bill Randolph and Joe Garrity of the Origin Muesum, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present a series of design documents for Martian Dreams, covering areas such as the game’s alpha testing, the clue path and plot, the planned dream world encounters, maps, tilesets, and in-game flags.
A custom DOSBox build which incorporates the MUNT Roland MT-32 emulation patch has been released.
A long-overdue guide to patching and getting the various Ultima games running.
I just stumbled over this video via a link on Twitter: I don’t know if the guy plans to do any more such videos (I hope so), and to be perfectly frank I find...