Restored: Ultima 8 in Windows
Although rendered somewhat obsolete by Pentagram, Gaseous Dragon’s Windows patch for Ultima 8 (which, yes, is now once again available for download) still has a niche to fill while Pentagram remains unfinished.
Tagged: Ultima 8
Restored: Ultima 8 Viewer and Cheat Program
No, that’s not one combined omni-application for Ultima 8; it’s two separate programs. The Ultima 8 Viewer lets you examine the shapes and graphics that the game uses, and the Ultima 8 Cheat Program...
Restored: U8 Mapper
I’m actually cheating a bit, because I was out late and am now pressed for time. And technically this is Friday’s update, and it’s now Saturday. At any rate, the big Ultima 8 remake,...
Ultima 8: Getting that pesky Tear of the Seas
L@Zar0 was asking about this a while ago, and over in the forum thread for that earlier post, Kobra Kai Dragon provided one possible solution: Pick up the chest, carry it to Daemon’s Crag...
Looking for an Ultima 8 utility (yeah, yeah, I know…)
L@Zar0, the fella who alerted me to the existence of the aforementioned Spanish translations of Serpent Isle and The Silver Seed, also posed a question that I didn’t have an answer to. It concerns...
More Ultima blogging!
Dino links to a pair of articles (1, 2) by Sheri Graner Ray, a former Origin employee and now a senior game designer with Schell Games, who has been in the gaming industry for...
Pentagram Updated
Pentagram, the remake that does for Ultima 8 what Exult did for Ultima 7, has posted news of their development progress for the first time since last December. The team, it seems, has been...
UW in Portuguese; Exult and Pentagram snapshots; EUO 3D; Project Britannia update
I apologize for the gap in news updating; both my job and my home life have been rather busy these last few weeks, and I’ve had precious little time to stroll through “the Ultimasphere”...
Attention, Pentagram Developers!
To anyone reading this site who might be working — or who has, in the past, worked — on Pentagram, the Ultima 8 environment — I have a question on behalf of a reader....
New Year's News
First off, Happy New Year to everyone. I hope that you were able to ring in 2008 in a way that was both safe and enjoyable for you and your friends or family; I...
Lazarus German translation coming; U5 for TI calculators nearing completion; Lost Sosaria forums; ACK v2.3 released
Okay, it’s been a while since the last update, and I trust that those Readers who are likewise recently married, or who were once recently married, can understand the heady intensity of the first...
