Fearyourself has continued to work and report on his Ultima-inspired game engine project, Back to Roots, and has even found a way to incorporate the graphics from the recently-released high-resolution tileset for xu4.
Funny Webcomic — an online comic that takes on different subjects week to week and lets visitors vote on them — has just put up a spoof of Ultima 4’s gypsy sequence.
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.
