Last updated: August 12th, 2008
Filed under Online Remakes, UO Remakes, Ultima Online
Produced by: Team Iris
Website: Ultima - Iris
Releases:
Iris
* Iris 0.8.7 (Windows) (9.63 MB)
* Iris 0.8.6 (Linux 64-bit) (13.47 MB)
* Developer Framework 0.4 (10.9 MB)
* Documentation (3.24 KB)
Iris2 (Iris-Ogre)
* Iris2 Build 2365 Setup (Windows) (128.76 MB)
* Iris 2 Build 2365 (Windows Source) (149.42 MB)
* Iris 2 Source (Linux) (144.02 MB)
* Emergency Updater (432.02 KB)
Also required (for Windows):
* Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1
* DirectX End-User Runtimes
Ultima: Iris is a 3D game client for Ultima Online, which gives the game a more modern feel in keeping with the evolution of 3D MMORPGs while still retaining the Ultima “feel” of UO (such as it is). Iris is only compatible with a number of different “freeshard” server types. See the project website (actually a wiki) for full details.
Iris requires a legal copy of Ultima Online, preferably one of the later-edition versions of the game, but it serves to note that trial versions of UO can be used for play on freeshards without suffering limitations. Trial versions of the game can be obtained from the UO: Mondain’s Legacy website.
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3D |
MMORPG |
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Ultima |
Ultima Online |
Ultima: Iris
Last updated: March 13th, 2008
Filed under Epic Ultima Spin-offs, Online Remakes, Spin-offs, UO Remakes, Ultima Online
Produced by: Darkheart Dragon, Avatus Kingsman (formerly), and many others
Website: Ultima Legacy
Releases:
* Custom Data Files
Ultima Legacy is a modified version of Ultima Online (which can be played for free) set in a post-Ultima 8 Britannia. Its premise includes the assumption that Ultima 9: Ascension did not happen, and out of that it has spawned a complex and involved storyline that included the Atarkan invasion of Britannia. Legacy doesn’t exactly form the backstory for the Titans of Ether project entitled Ultima IX: Redemption, although there is a relation there as both projects were founded, in part, by Avatus Kingsman (although where he has gone to, none now know).
To join Legacy is a bit of an involved process — the modified data files that are necessary for game play are provided here for download, but there’s more to it than just that. For starters, you need to own a copy of Ultima Online: The Second Age, and if possible it is recommended that you have Ultima Online: Renaisance instead. may also work.
The rest of the joining process is explained at the Legacy website, and so I direct the interested reader to “journey onward” there.
As of 2008, Legacy is being revised to tell a Serpent Isle-based tale. They are also switching from the Sphere freeshard system to RunUO. Follow all the latest developments at the project website.
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Atarka |
Britannia |
RunUO |
Serpent Isle |
Sphere |
Titans of Ether |
Ultima 8 |
Ultima 9 |
Ultima IX: Redemption |
Ultima Legacy |
Ultima Online |
Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge |
Ultima Online: Renaisance |
Ultima Online: The Second Age