Restored: Ultima 8 AdLib Patch
For all you users of retro sound boards out there (or possibly users of DOSBox, which I believe can emulate AdLib support), the official patch to enable proper AdLib support in Ultima 8 is...
Tagged: Ultima 8
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.
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”...
