Ultima 6 for Super NES…Online!
Twitter user and Ultima fan Cody Baxter alerted me to this online Nintendo Super NES emulation site, at which it appears that the NES port of Ultima 6 is available to play for free....
Tagged: Ultima
In which we are thankful that Ultima is an EA property
Because if Origin Systems had been purchased instead by Ubisoft, this entire site and every fan project and patch on it would have been stopped dead in their collective tracks a long time ago....
Added: Joyous Rebel
The oddly-titled Joyous Rebel is an Ultima-inspired RPG that was originally released as shareware in 1996. In 1998, it received several bug fixes and was re-released as freeware, possibly in anticipation of its sequel...
In a previous decade, Origin would have dominated this sort of list
By which, of course, I mean a list of the top ten games of the previous decade. Were it a list about the period between…say…1990 and 2000, you’d basically have every main-series Ultima title...
Sanctimonia update: terrain layers progressing, video imminent
Kevin Fishburne writes in to let us know that work continues to progress on his Ultima-inspired game, Sanctimonia. In particular, he reports that the terrain megatextures that his engine uses, and the landscape layer...
EA broke records with their App Store sales in 2010
Just how lucrative is the mobile app market? This lucrative: Electronic Arts is boasting of amazing third quarter sales of its own iOS apps. Joystiq reports that COO John Schappert recently discussed just how...
New Gallery: Origin Systems iPhone Wallpapers
Ultima fan and Aiera Browncoat Jayson reader has created over thirty iPhone/iPod Touch wallpaper images based on Origin Systems and their games. Most of the images are drawn from various Ultima titles, but there...
Something, something, Lord of Ultima
Since I know you all care about this game so very much, I know you will all rush out right now and pick up the Google Chrome plugin/app that has just been released for...
Boxer for Mac now ships with the Ultima Underworld demo
Boxer, for those who don’t know the name, is a Mac port of DOSBox that claims to vastly simplify the process of playing DOS games using that software. Having used it, I’d say that...
And speaking of playthroughs…here's Akalabeth
I didn’t just find Martian Dreams on YouTube yesterday. There was also this: And this is just the first video; YouTube user DJOldGames has already completed the fourth quest from Lord British, and has...
It looks like the start of a Martian Dreams playthrough
I just stumbled over this video via a link on Twitter: I don’t know if the guy plans to do any more such videos (I hope so), and to be perfectly frank I find...
