New Gallery: Ultima 4 Town and City Maps
17 images from the Ultima 4 cluebook, The Way of the Avatar. Back in the day, Origin made some of the coolest cluebooks, and the quality of these city maps shows it.
Tagged: Origin Systems
New Gallery: Origin Museum Artifacts
Ultima Aiera is pleased to present over 100 photos of some of the more rare and fascinating items that the Origin Museum has collected, representing a wide swath of the history of the company and its products.
The Original Ultima Online World Map…I Finally Found It!
Thanks to Canadian sci-fi author Cory Doctorow, I finally rediscovered an old map of the original plan for Ultima Online’s game world, which included all four continents from the first Ultima game.
Underworld 2 And Memory Palaces
A fascinating, touching, introspective look at Ultima Underworld 2, an ancient technique for storing precious memories, and the intersection between the two.
Ultima Underworld Bugs Have Never Been So Funny
Former Looking Glass Productions programmer Dan Schmidt discusses some of the hilarious bugs, and “bugs”, encountered when developing Ultima Underworld.
Nuvie updated…Now With FM-Towns Support!
The cross-platform Ultima 6 engine has been updated recently, with support for a rare version of the game.
New Gallery: OSI Rejection Letter
Courtesy of Kevin Fishburne (the developer behind Sanctimonia), Ultima Aiera is pleased to present this letter — on Origin Systems letterhead — signed by Richard “Lord British” Garriott himself. It is a rejection letter,...
In which we are thankful that Ultima is an EA property
Because if Origin Systems had been purchased instead by Ubisoft, this entire site and every fan project and patch on it would have been stopped dead in their collective tracks a long time ago....
In a previous decade, Origin would have dominated this sort of list
By which, of course, I mean a list of the top ten games of the previous decade. Were it a list about the period between…say…1990 and 2000, you’d basically have every main-series Ultima title...
New Gallery: Origin Systems iPhone Wallpapers
Ultima fan and Aiera Browncoat Jayson reader has created over thirty iPhone/iPod Touch wallpaper images based on Origin Systems and their games. Most of the images are drawn from various Ultima titles, but there...
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...
