Tagged: Ultima 3

Ultima Fan Projects

July 30, 2014

Pix’s Ultima Patcher: Updated to Version 1.55

Pix has updated his venerable Ultima Patcher to incorporate the recent Exodus Project Ultima 3 upgrade improvements.

Ultima Fan Projects

July 23, 2014

The Exodus Project: Ultima 3 Upgrade Updated to Version 3.1

Voyager Dragon has released an update to the Exodus Project’s Ultima 3 Upgrade, fixing a number of issues that had been brought to his attention.

Factoids

July 18, 2014

Ultima 3 is the first game in the series where cheating (by means of using in-game bugs & exploits) is possible.

Ultima

July 9, 2014

Kotaku Lists Ultima 3’s Food As One of the “7 Strangest Foods in RPGs”

Kotaku takes a look at bizarre foods in various RPGs, and discusses (briefly) the party’s utter life-and-death reliance on food in Ultima 3.

Ultima

July 7, 2014

The Digital Antiquarian: The Road to (Ultima) IV

The Digital Antiquarian takes a look at Origin Systems’ move to New England and the context in which Ultima 4 was created.

Factoids

June 5, 2014

There’s an extra sequence at the end of the NES port of Ultima 3, in which the player must escape Castle Death as it collapses.

Ultima / Ultima Fan Projects

May 28, 2014

Pix Plays Ultimore: A World Divided

Pix has come into possession of a copy of a mod for Ultima 3 — Ultimore: A World Divided. It is one of a series of five such mods, all made by hacking the Ultima 3 game data.

Factoids

May 27, 2014

The Dor Acron (Ultima 1, 2, and 3) spell allows a Mage to descend one dungeon level without the need to find the ladder leading down.

Jason Ely / Ultima

March 18, 2014

Interview with Jason Ely

To mark the 20th anniversary of Ultima 8’s release, the Ultima Codex interviewed one of the game’s most well-known team members, programmer and designer Jason Ely.