How Many People Are Still Playing Ultima Online?
UOJournal looks at the question of how many players are still active in Ultima Online, and comes away with some figures that I think, at least, are surprising.
Tagged: Ultima
Back to Roots: xu4's Graphics, Ultima 5 Discoveries
Fearyourself has continued to work and report on his Ultima-inspired game engine project, Back to Roots, and has even found a way to incorporate the graphics from the recently-released high-resolution tileset for xu4.
1983 Infomania Interview With Richard Garriott
An Infomania article from 1983 which discusses a bug in Ultima 2 allowing for the creation of bridges of ships (also features a short interview with Richard Garriott).
Five Years After Odyssey
The Middle-Aged Gamer interviewed some of the more well-known members of the Ultima X: Odyssey development team back in 2008, and posted the entire discussion on his blog.
Funny Webcomic Spoofs Ultima 4
Funny Webcomic — an online comic that takes on different subjects week to week and lets visitors vote on them — has just put up a spoof of Ultima 4’s gypsy sequence.
New (But Orphaned) Project: ZXU4
Zedex Dragon was, for a time, building a custom version of Ultima 4 for a computer of his own designing, the ZX Spectrum SE.
Back to Roots: Working Healers, And Many Lines of Code
Fearyourself’s Ultima-inspired game engine project proceeds apace, with the addition of a healer in Brittany.
Zeph's Ultima MineCraft Textures Updated
Zeph’s Ultima-themed texture pack for MineCraft has been updated.
xu4: More Minor Updates, Swanky New High-Resolution Tiles!
The xu4 team have made a few more tweaks and improvements to xu4’s performance, and have also made significant progress in a “new” tileset for the game.
Ultima MineCraft Textures Updated
Andy Panthro’s Ultima-themed texture pack for MineCraft has been updated.
Ultima V Lazarus…En Español
Shyrion Dragon has launched the website for his project to produce a Spanish translation of Ultima V: Lazarus.
