Ultima Restoration

Last updated: June 13th, 2008

Filed under Engines, General Utilities, MD Remakes, Martian Dreams, SE Remakes, Savage Empire, Spin-offs, U1 Remakes, U7 Remakes, U8 Remakes, Ultima 1, Ultima 7, Ultima 8

Produced by: Saduj
Website: Ultima Restoration
Releases:

Utilities
* Ultima Potions (hak pak) (376.62 KB)
* Ultima Potions (demo module) (37.02 KB)
* Ultima Potions v2 (hak pak) (375.84 KB)
* Ultima Potions v2 (demo module) (41.29 KB)
* Venom Dagger (erf import file) (2.44 KB)
* Venom Dagger (hak pak) (36.27 KB)
* Venom Dagger icons (700 bytes)
* Venom Dagger source (11.91 KB)
* NPC Schedules (erf import file) (64.71 KB)
* NPC Schedules (demo module) (455.61 KB)
* NPC Schedules (readme) (4.1 KB)
* Moongates (erf import file) (23.66 KB)
* Moongates (demo module) (198.47 KB)
* Savage Empire Female Portrait Pack (3.23 MB)
* Savage Empire Male Portrait Pack (1.57 MB)
* Conversation System Demo (65.83 KB)
* Conversation System Files (29.87 KB)

This is actually a comprehensive collection of utilities and in-progress remakes of Ultima titles, all done in the Neverwinter Nights engine. The list of utilities is pretty comprehensive, including functional moongates (with Orb of the Moons!), NPC scheduling, animated potions, a conversation system to replace the default NWN system, and a very good reproduction of the venomous dagger of Ultima 7 fame.

But even more promising is the list of remakes that are being put together by this team and others. Currently in progress are remakes of Ultima 1, Ultima 7 (which provides the screenshot here), Ultima 8, Savage Empire, and Martian Dreams. Most of these seem still to be in the early stages of development, but the Ultima 7 remake — which deals, it seems, only with the events of The Black Gate at present — looks to have progressed somewhat further.

Here is hoping, then, that this collective set of efforts bears much fruit in the future! As the projects progress, I’ll probably break off each remake into its own standalone entry. For now, this one omnibus entry will suffice.

Tags >> Martian Dreams | Neverwinter Nights | Orb of the Moons | Savage Empire | The Black Gate | Ultima | Ultima 1 | Ultima 7 | Ultima 8

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Nuvie

Last updated: August 29th, 2007

Filed under MD Remakes, Martian Dreams, SE Remakes, Savage Empire, U6 Remakes, Ultima 6

Produced by: Eric Fry
Website: Nuvie at Sourceforge
Releases:
* Windows Snapshot (32-bit) (1.11 MB)
* Mac OSX 10.3 Snapshot (751.72 KB)
* Mac OSX 10.4 Snapshot (1.69 MB)

Eric Fry’s novel remake of the Ultima 6 engine is also going to be compatible with Savage Empire and Martian Dreams. Though currently being developed under Mac OSX, there are downloadable binaries for both Windows and Mac OS X 10.3 (the developer feels these snapshots might also work under earlier versions of OSX, however this is untested. It is the opinion of Aiera that they will not, simply because of some key API changes that exist between OSX 10.2 and 10.3).

The program source code is also available. Linux users will have to compile Nuvie from source.

Tags >> Aiera | Mac | Martian Dreams | Nuvie | OS X | Savage Empire | Ultima 6 | Windows

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Martian Dreams Hack

Last updated: June 20th, 2007

Filed under MD Utilities, Martian Dreams, SE Utilities, Savage Empire

Produced by: F-15 Dragon
Releases:
* MDHack (34.57 KB)

This little utility enables the player to activate the cheat utility in Martian Dreams. It can also remove the copy protection from the game, and initially I was hesitant to post a copy to Aiera on that basis…until I realized that uo.com had a downloadable copy as well.

Paulon Dragon informs us that this hack will also work with Savage Empire, and he provides details on how to do this on his website, The Other Codex.

Tags >> Aiera | Martian Dreams | Savage Empire

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