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Ain’t that the damn truth?

Last updated: August 22nd, 2008

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A shift in EA’s business philosophy?

Last updated: August 19th, 2008

I will believe it when I see it, but there is a hopeful note sounded in ‘ latest publishing decision. I’m not much for the horror genre of games, but the decision by to publish a horror title from / is interesting, to say the least. That’s more than a little outside of EA’s usual paradigm.

The latest signings bode well for the company’s new “studio-focused philosophy,” which EA Partners general manager describes as “giving the world’s best independent developers access to EA’s global publishing resources, letting them focus on what they do best — making great games.

Perhaps there’s hope for ’s Dragon Age yet!

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Ultima Songbook; U6 Project dev tools released; Iris and Exult updated

Last updated: August 13th, 2008

I see that Dino’s Ultima Page has posted some news concerning a couple of new file releases from different projects. Notably, Ranman’s Ultima V for TI Calculators has released a beta version of that port for the TI-92 and V200 calculators. This download has already been added to the project entry here at .

Also, the full version of a patch translating Ultima 7 to Spanish has been released. Following up on this lead led me to translation patches for , , and about which I had previously been unaware, and these have all been added to Aiera.

Additionally, the Ultima 6 Project Development Tools Package has been released, which enables the user to edit and compile conversations, edit game objects, edit game logic, and provides a host of other functions as well. It can be downloaded from the website, or from the entry here at Aiera.

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Other Ultima-related news I found whilst wandering through the Internet today includes:

Aklabeth

The web home of this remake of seems to be offline. I hope it’s just a temporary thing.

Ultima Underworld for Pocket PC

Conversely, this port of Ultima Underworld to the seems to be back online again. Nice to see. That means that I get to move this project out of the cemetery!

Exult

This port of and Serpent Isle to…well…pretty much every operating system one could dare to think of…doesn’t look as though it’s been updated, by its website. But I noticed that the and PocketPC snapshots were updated earlier this month, as was the snapshot for . All of these can be downloaded through the project entry here. The chief modification seems to concern a bug with multiracial Avatars.

Ultima: Iris

This 3D frontend for Ultima Online has been updated recently, to build version 2365. and Windows source, and the Windows installer, can all be downloaded via the project entry here, or at the project website.

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Finally, I was contacted by Yannick “Alcibiade” Kirschhoffer regarding a new piece of Ultima-related material he has produced. I’ll let him explain it in his own words:

I’ve been huge fan of the second Ultima trilogy. In 2003, I began work on writing guitar arrangements of most of this era’s music. I did the score almost entirely, and some of U4 and U5 too. Then I compiled these in a songbook that I illustrated with artwork and quotes from the games.

It is available for download in PDF format at www.alcibiade.org

This is a handy little creation, beautifully arranged and attractively compiled into one volume. I’ve added a project entry for it under the category of “General Utility”, and it can be downloaded from there as well.

Well done, Yannick!

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Ultima Underworld Spanish Translation

Last updated: August 13th, 2008
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Produced by: Iolo
Website: Traducción Ultima
Releases:
* Traducción de Ultima Underworld (512.36 KB)

This is a full of into Spanish.

 
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Serpent Isle Spanish Translation

Last updated: August 13th, 2008
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Produced by: L@Zar0
Website: Traducción Ultima
Releases:
* Traducción de Serpent Isle (4.28 MB)

This is a full of and into Spanish. It may require in order to work.

 
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