Tagged: Ultima

Dragon Age 2 imports "the world"

Dragon Age 2 imports "the world"

[amazonify]B003UF9E0O:right[/amazonify]Joystiq reports that the lingering ambiguity over how BioWare’s Dragon Age 2 [pre-order] will handle character imports has been cleared up. …lead designer Mike Laidlaw revealed that while you don’t get to import your...

Wing Commander 2 being tested for re-release?

Wing Commander 2 being tested for re-release?

It seems like BioWare Mythic are pressing ahead with their project to get DOSboxed versions of the old Origin games — or, at least, the Wing Commander and Ultima series — re-released via digital...

Restored: Ultima Classics Revisited

Restored: Ultima Classics Revisited

This short-lived, ambitious project by prmths aimed to create engines, compatible with most modern operating systems, for the first six Ultima games (and Akalabeth). It…fell short of that goal, disappearing shortly after the release...

Restored: Win64

Restored: Win64

A guy by the name of Ralph Manson produced an alternative Commodore 64 emulator a few years back, which purportedly ran a little bit better than the recently-restored CCS64 emulator. Honestly, having never played...

Return to the Serpent Isle: September Update

Return to the Serpent Isle: September Update

Sergorn Dragon has just posted the September news update for the Ultima project he’s heading up (and for which I am doing worldbuilding), Return to the Serpent Isle. He makes mention of the character...

Found Image: Papa British on Skylab

Found Image: Papa British on Skylab

That would be NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, father of Ultima creator (and private astronaut himself) Richard Garriott (known to us all as, of course, Lord British). Here he is posing by a console aboard...