Added: Nytegard's Ultima 5 Utilities
Several years ago, Nytegard undertook a project to crack into the data files for Ultima 5, and proceeded to extensively reverse-engineer the game. Along the way, he built himself several tools to assist in...
Tagged: Ultima 5
Back to Roots: Conversation System and Another Bug
Fearyourself/JC has continued to make progress adding support for Ultima 5 to his game engine: I’ve continued the conversation system and actually have integrated the full labelling system into the game engine. It seems...
Back to Roots progress; possible U5 bug?
For the most part, Fearyourself/JC has been working on upgrading Nytegard’s Ultima 5 tools (which I really need to add to Aiera); he goes into detail about the differences between his versions and Nytegard’s...
Added: More Minecraft Avatar Skins
Courtesy of Andy Panthro, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present two additional Avatar-themed skins for your Minecraft character: an Ultima 6 Avatar (in white, as per the game’s box art), and an Ultima 5...
Back to Roots Update: Schedules and Conversations
Fearyourself sent me an update by email to let me know that he has added a few more features to his multi-game engine, Back to Roots. Schedules Everything is actually implemented, I had a...
Should Neverwinter Nights 2 become the go-to game for Ultima mod-makers to use?
Neverwinter Nights 2 doesn’t allow for the creation of a fully continuous world, a hallmark of the later Ultima games. But it does allow for the creation of a very fine-looking dual-scale world, a hallmark of the earlier Ultima games.
Ultima V on a Passport MIDI card
Over at ByteCellar (the vintage computing weblog), blogger blakespot has linked to a YouTube video of the title screen from Ultima 5, with audio being handled by the dual-card Passport Wavetable MIDI card. It...
Rockin’ Ultima 5 theme music!
Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum alerted me to this: I could say more for the sound quality, but that right there is a pretty epic take on the title screen track from Ultima...
Back to Roots: new website, new features
Fearyourself emailed me to say that he has moved his project — a unified game engine that can handle data files and inputs from a variety of game data files — to a standalone...
Back to Roots progress report
Fearyourself emailed me to report on his progress with his project, Back to Roots. He has been quite busy with “behind the scenes” work, and has added support for “pretty much every NPC” from...
