Tagged: Ultima 5

What is your favourite early Ultima art style?

What is your favourite early Ultima art style?

I’m cribbing this idea directly from the Wing Commander CIC, by the way. The Ultima games have seen a tremendous evolution in their graphical styles and in-game artistry. Part of this is due to...

EUO updates…many, many updates!

EUO updates…many, many updates!

It’s been a while since I checked in on EUO, Max Breedon’s “little project that could,” but in the interim it would appear that Max has made several enhancements to his Ultima-inspired project. For...

Added: Back to Roots

Added: Back to Roots

Commenter Fearyourself, who has stepped to the fore to help Kevin Fishburne with his coding issue, has an Ultima-inspired engine creation project of his own, which I have just now gladly added a project...

Restored: Littoral

Restored: Littoral

Technically, the project entry is for Kevin Fishburne’s short-lived Ultima 5 – TES3 Mod, which currently resides in the Aiera Orphanage. However, the released download associated therewith is actually Littoral, his powerful terrain heightmap...

New Gallery: Ultima Remakes in PC Games magazine

New Gallery: Ultima Remakes in PC Games magazine

Courtesy of Dominus (whom most of you should know from Exult and Pentagram), Ultima Aiera is pleased to present five scanned pages from a recent edition of PC Games, a German magazine devoted to...

Added: Ultima 5 for iPad

Added: Ultima 5 for iPad

I was alerted to the existence of this project on Tumblr (Aiera has a Tumblr feed; the developer followed it) a couple of days ago, and have taken the step of adding a project...

Restored: LZW Decompressor

Restored: LZW Decompressor

One more utility from Xenerkes Dragon — his decompressor for the no-longer-patented LZW algorithm, which is used to encode certain files for Ultima 5 and Ultima 6 — is once again available for download.