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...
Tagged: Ultima 6
Ultima has a friend in Felicia Day
Okay, here’s the thing: I never really went for Buffy the Vampire Slayer for more than a season or two. It had this neat, kind of quirky vibe to begin with, but (much like...
Added: Ultima 6 Design Document
Courtesy of Lost Dragon, Aiera is pleased to host for download this design document for Ultima 6. It is mostly focused on game mechanics, covering everything from monster stats to pathfinding, and as such...
Ultima 6 Online: Enhanced Graphics
I periodically check the Ultima 6 Online website and forums for indications of a client update. (Which reminds me; I need to send Cear Dragon FTP information!) This time, though, I found something rather...
Ultima 4…unplayable?
The Brainy Gamer — who in real life teaches a class in which he periodically subjects his students to classic computer games like Fallout and Planetfall — has written an interesting article that really...
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.
Anybody got a spare copy of Savage Empire or Martian Dreams?
[singlepic id=93 w=300 h=217 float=right]As was reported yesterday, Mythic Entertainment has been in talks with the developers of DOSbox; I received word this morning from Paul Barnett that Mythic has been given the OK...
Playing computer games…not actually bad for your marks!
Your parents were wrong. A new study from the University of Maryland shows that more time spent in front of a computer doesn’t hurt a child’s academic performance, and, in some cases, actually improves...
Updated: Ultima 6 Online
Cear Dragon informed me that the Ultima 6 Online client has been updated, and now points to a somewhat more stable, North America-based host.
Restored: Ultima Songbook
I’m in the home stretch now, I think; I’ve gotten around to restoring the Utilities, the first of which is Alcibiade’s excellent Ultima Songbook. Okay, it could be argued that a collection of guitar...
Can you complete an Ultima game without killing anyone?
Can any of the Ultimas be completed without resorting to combat?
