Back to Roots Adds NPC and Merchant Support
Jc/Fearyourself’s ambitious project, Back to Roots, has added support for NPCs and merchants to his game engine, both of which can be configured quickly and quite easily through XML.
Tagged: Ultima 4
Easter Musings
Withstand the Fury Dragon’s annual reflections on the Easter season. Decidely not Ultima-related, but hopefully worthwhile.
Ultima 4 Map Editor For DOS Updated
Ram Dragon has published an updated version of his Ultima 4 Map Editor for DOS, which now boasts the same features as the Windows version he published recently.
New Gallery: Ultima 4 C128 Soundtrack
Goldenflame Dragon has recorded the soundtrack of the C128 version of Ultima 4, and made it available for your listening (and downloading) pleasure.
The Ultima 4 Map Editor Gets An Update
A utility to edit the graphics tiles in Ultima 4 gets an unexpected update after its developer finds it available here on Aiera.
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.
Ultima 4 Manga
Blu3vib3 and translator RCapowski have undertaken a project to scan-late the manga retelling of Ultima 4. So far, they have the first chapter online.
Richard Garriott: Only My Team Can Create Ultima's True Heir
Ultima creator Richard Garriott throws down a gauntlet at EA’s feet in his comment on EA’s recent legal actions and Mythic’s secret project.
Back To Roots March Updates
Back to Roots, another Ultima-inspired (and Ultima-compatible) game engine project, posted a couple of updates early on in March, which I had missed noticing until just now.
xu4 for iOS Trailer
NorwegianRockCat, from the xu4 development team, has released a trailer for the (currently iPad-only) iOS port of xu4, the cross-platform Ultima 4 engine.
