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Announcing: The Ultima Codex
The Ultima Codex, is the next phase in Ultima fandom online. I will no longer be posting news updates to this website. However, this site will remain online for the foreseeable future, both for reasons of posterity and as the home for the various project, utility, and patch downloads that were its beginning and which form its core. In time, these too will be moved over to The Ultima Codex, though it’s likely you’ll find them here for a long time to come as well.
Portable Ultima Patches
Jason “Xarton Dragon” Penney has released a set of portable, delta-only patches for the first six Ultima games (the GOG versions and, presumably, other installations as well).
Ultima IX: Salvation
Opera Dragon has released what few planning documents he has held on to from an Ultima 9 remake he had once planned to do.
Pix’s Ultima Patcher
Pix has produced a patching utility that will automatically update Ultimas 1-4 (the Good Old Games versions) with all available patches and enhancements for each title.
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.
Ultima 4 EGA Graphics
Thanks to Dungy of the Codex of Ultima Wisdom, Ultima Aiera now hosts the EGA graphics patch for Ultima 4 for download.
Akalabeth Patched Executable
A patched executable that enables Akalabeth to run under DOSBox.
Ultima 4 Hythloth Fix
Ultima fan and Codex editor Seth “Fenyx4” Bacon has produced a patched version of Hythloth for Ultima 4, which makes level 6 of the dungeon passable.
Nytegard’s Ultima 5 Utilities
[flickr size=”square” float=”left”]3887219649[/flickr] Produced by: Nytegard Website: Nytegard’s Ultima 5 editor @ Nodling’s Releases: * * * Several years ago, Nytegard undertook a project to crack into the data files for Ultima 5, and proceeded to extensively reverse-engineer the game….
Ultima 4 v1.01
[flickr size=”small” float=”left”]4122093867[/flickr] Produced by: Origin Systems Website: Ultima Forever Releases: * Ultima Forever * Ultima 4 v1.01 (hosted by Contrapuntal Dragon) * Ultima 4 v1.01 (hosted by Fortran Dragon) From The Codex of Ultima Wisdom: Ultima IV: Quest of…
Ultimate Action RPG Maker
[flickr size=”small” float=”left”]4948763183[/flickr] Produced by: Fahed “Foody” Al Daye Though it has yet to produce any releases, this interesting-looking RPG maker software, presently under development, was announced on a short-lived thread in the Exult forums, and is obviously quite heavily…
Akalabeth for iPhone
Produced by: Quantum Toast Website: Mobile World of Doom! Releases: This is an “exact” re-creation of Akalabeth for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, which even goes so far (as can be seen in the screenshot) as to re-create the…
Ultima 4 in Flash
[flickr size=”small” float=”left”]5030757730[/flickr] Produced by: Blair Leggett Website: Ultima4 (Offline) Written by a self-described “out of work programmer” who “spent [a] couple of months (while looking for a job) building Ultima 4 to showcase [his] online programming skills,” this is…
Ultima 4 Flash Game
[flickr size=”thumbnail” float=”left”]4122093867[/flickr] Website: Master System 8 (Offline) This is a flash-based, online-playable version of the Sega Master System version of Ultima 4, which Ergonpandilus Dragon (who informed me of its existence) asserts is “the best version of U4 to…
Ultima 5 – Lazarus
[flickr size=”small” float=”alignright”]5352517267[/flickr] Produced by: Team Lazarus Website: Lazarus Releases: * * * * * * * * * * * * * Patches and Upgrades: * – from 3DWorx * * – see for details * * * –…
Ultima 5 for TI Calculators
[flickr size=”small” float=”left”]5353135710[/flickr] Produced by: David Randall Website: Ultima 5 for TI Calculators Releases: * * An ambitious project to port Ultima 5 to the Texas Instruments 68K programmable calculators, this remake took a little over a year to reach…
Ultima Ports for Nokia 770/M800
Produced by: Arnim Sauerbier Website: Arnim Sauerbier Releases: * * * * * * * * These are actually just ports of other Ultima projects (linked below), but as I’ve never seen so many in one place at one time…
Ultima IX – Infinity Eternal
[image:74:l:s=0:l=x]Produced by: Thepal Website: Ethereal Software Releases: * This remake was the only Ultima remake that was being made with the Oblivion engine. Unlike Redemption, Infinity Eternal was being made to be more faithful to the plot of the original…
Serpent Isle for NWN2
[flickr size=”small” float=”left”]4686919384[/flickr] Produced by: Jaesun Website: NWN2 Ultima VII Part 2 I do believe this was the first remake to make use of the Neverwinter Nights 2 engine, and what a great Ultima to pick for it. Serpent Isle,…