Pentagram and xu4 Snapshots Updated
I have updated Ultima Aiera’s copies of the snapshot downloads for Pentagram and xu4, both because they were out of date anyway and because of the recent SDL fixes for the OS X versions.
Tagged: SDL
Nuvie: Official Release v0.2
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).
Sanctimonia Updates and a Plea for Assistance
Kevin Fishburne has made excellent progress on his Ultima-inspired online RPG, Sanctimonia…but now, more than ever, he needs help getting the game developed.
Apple's OS X Lion (10.7) Breaks Fullscreen for SDL-based Games
An issue with deprecated OS functions in the latest version of OS X — code-named “Lion” — causes SDL-based games to crash.
Video: Ultima 4 on iOS (natively!)
In which a long-standing challenge is responded to: What you are seeing, Dragons and Dragonettes, is actually an offshoot of the xu4 project, which implements the underlying game model from Ultima 4 in iOS....
xu4 resumes development
Andrew Taylor’s SDL-based re-creation of Ultima 4 was intended to be a cross-platform version of the game, much as Exult is for Ultima 7. The project fell dormant after 2008, but has since been...
Added: Back to Roots
Commenter Fearyourself, who has stepped to the fore to help Kevin Fishburne with his coding issue, has an Ultima-inspired engine creation project of his own, which I have just now gladly added a project...
It's nearly summer…and there's updates!
I love it when projects come back to life after a bit of a hiatus (or a really long hiatus, as the case may be). So it’s with an extra little swell of joy...
