A little Christmastime fun
Here’s a little taste of what you can all expect to find on the site next week: Except, as video.
Tagged: Ultima 6
New Project: Ultima Obscura
And remember: the first annual Aiera Thanksgiveaway is still on! This is an interesting-looking project, though still in the conceptual stage. It bills itself as “complete and total re-imagining of the entire linear canonical...
Some neat bits of Ultima history
This is cool. Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum alerted me to the existence of GMZ, a gaming blog that aggregates news about games (“mostly indie retro rock ‘n roll type”) with “interesting design...
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...
Because I think I'm so funny…
So it all started when one of my Twitter followers, DaveJustDave, said this: I replied: And then I had an idea…and now you all have to suffer for it. And laugh, hopefully: Go on,...
Anyone want to set up a permanent Minecraft server for that Ultima 6 map?
Ultima fan (and a follower of mine on Twitter) James A Trujillo suggested — in response to this little slice of awesome — that someone should set up a permanent instance of Minecraft Server...
Added: Ultima 6 Minecraft Conversion
I joked, some time ago, about building a Minecraft-based model of Britannia. Now, I don’t know if the Rules of the Internet state, at any point, that any articulated idea will, after a set...
Added: PU6E
I don’t know how I missed including this project on the site for so damn long, to be honest. I knew about it, after all; the name was instantly familiar when I saw it...
Spoony's review of Ultima 6: not entirely fair?
Sadly, he isn’t all that kind to that which I count as my favourite Ultima title: I don’t share many of Spoony’s criticisms, although that is partly due to the fact that, per the...
Quite literally the first computer game I ever played
As I mentioned in this post, the first three computer games I ever played, and then within the span of about eighteen months (and I can’t have been 7 years old at the end...
Ultima 6 in iDOS (with pictures!)
I finally managed to take a few minutes and get this working. I already had Ultima 6 installed on another machine for use with DOSbox, so getting the game into iDOS on my iPhone...
