New (But Orphaned) Project: ZXU4
Zedex Dragon was, for a time, building a custom version of Ultima 4 for a computer of his own designing, the ZX Spectrum SE.
Zedex Dragon was, for a time, building a custom version of Ultima 4 for a computer of his own designing, the ZX Spectrum SE.
Fearyourself’s Ultima-inspired game engine project proceeds apace, with the addition of a healer in Brittany.
The xu4 team have made a few more tweaks and improvements to xu4’s performance, and have also made significant progress in a “new” tileset for the game.
Darren Janeczek from the xu4 project team sends in some additional screenshots of Wiltshire Dragon’s EGA graphics upgrade for the game, as well as a few screenshots of his Avatar icon-changing utility.
Blu3vib3 and RCapowski have finished their scanlation — scanning and translation — of the manga retelling of Ultima 4.
Thanks to Dungy of the Codex of Ultima Wisdom, Ultima Aiera now hosts the EGA graphics patch for Ultima 4 for download.
Fearyourself has been busy experimenting with the use of LUA scripting to handle certain in-game events.
As evidenced by recent code commits, several “under the hood” changes have been made to xu4, the cross-platform Ultima 4 engine.
A long-overdue guide to patching and getting the various Ultima games running.
Fenyx4, from the Codex of Ultima Wisdom, has prepared a list of AutoHotKey macros that will make it easier to handle some of the more complex tasks in Ultima 4.
Fearyourself/JC, the talented programmer behind the Back to Roots engine project, recently got married! Oh, and he’ll be resuming work on the project pretty soon.