Produced by: Julien Langer
Website: Abysmal Engine
Releases:
* Abysmal for Ubuntu (off-site)
* Abysmal for Windows (Installer) (1.2 MiB, 153 hits)
* Abysmal for Windows (ZIP) (1.3 MiB, 117 hits)
* Abysmal for Linux (AMD64) (1.1 MiB, 89 hits)
* Abysmal for Linux (x86) (1.1 MiB, 96 hits)
* Abysmal Source (1.1 MiB, 109 hits)

The Abysmal Engine is an attempt to create an Ultima Underworld 1/2 and System Shock engine for modern operating systems. It will still require the original Ultima Underworld or System Shock data files to run.

Abysmal is a successor to previous such attempts at creating an engine for the Underworld games, and builds on the work done by The System Shock Hack Project, Underworld Adventures and Underworld 2 Revival projects.

It is still at a very early developmental stage (the author warns that none of the games are actually playable), but seems to be making decent progress. An iPhone 3GS version even appears to be in the works!

Produced by: Iolo
Website: Traducción Ultima
Releases:
* Traducción de Ultima Underworld (512.4 KiB, 95 hits)

This is a full translation of Ultima Underworld into Spanish, one of a series of Spanish Ultima translations that appeared within the last couple of years.

Produced by: ZIO Interactive Inc.
Website (Developer): clubzio.com
Website (for Purchase): PocketGear
Releases:
* Slide Show Demo (2.5 MiB, 100 hits)

This remake of Ultima Underworld for the PocketPC seems to work fairly well on most main-line PocketPC models. While the developer, ZIO Interactive, doesn’t seem to feature the game for purchase or download anymore (that I can tell — the site is in Chinese), the game itself is still available for purchase from PocketGear.

A “demo” of sorts is available, although it is little more than a slide-show of in-game screenshots and graphics.

Produced by: Zen
Downloads:
* Ultima Underworld for Dungeon Keeper (27.7 KiB, 70 hits)

This is a multiplayer Dungeon Keeper level based on the first level of Ultima Underworld. While Dungeon Keeper doesn’t do sloped surfaces the layout is otherwise very close.

Since much of the level is impenitrable rock much of the challenge in designing this level (and, presumably, subsequent levels also based on Underworld) came from managing the space for rooms well.

The map replaces level 61 (multiplayer map 7) in the game, and is for 3 players (but it can be played by one player against the computer). The developer doesn’t have a website at which to host it, so this offering is more or less exclusive to Aiera at present.

To play the level:

1. extract the file into the Dungeon Keeper ‘level’ directory
2. Start Dungeon Keeper with the 1-player option
3. choose multiplayer, then 1 player, and finally level 61

Produced by: Saduj
Website: Ultima Restoration
Releases:

Utilities
* Ultima Potions (hak pak) (376.6 KiB, 214 hits)
* Ultima Potions (demo module) (37.0 KiB, 149 hits)
* Ultima Potions II (hak pak) (375.8 KiB, 137 hits)
* Ultima Potions II (demo module) (41.3 KiB, 146 hits)
* Venom Dagger (erf import file) (2.4 KiB, 144 hits)
* Venom Dagger (hak pak) (36.3 KiB, 143 hits)
* Venom Dagger (icons) (700 bytes, 152 hits)
* Venom Dagger (source files) (11.9 KiB, 145 hits)
* NPC Schedules (erf import file) (64.7 KiB, 141 hits)
* NPC Schedules (demo module) (455.6 KiB, 138 hits)
* NPC Schedules (readme) (4.2 KiB, 151 hits)
* Moongates (erf import file) (23.7 KiB, 136 hits)
* Moongates for CEP (erf import file) (23.7 KiB, 139 hits)
* Moongates (demo module) (198.5 KiB, 133 hits)
* Moongates for CEP (demo module) (565.3 KiB, 138 hits)
* Savage Empire Female Portraits (3.2 MiB, 212 hits)
* Savage Empire Male Portraits (1.6 MiB, 187 hits)
* Ultima Conversation System (files) (287.7 KiB, 147 hits)
* Ultima Conversation System (demo) (685.6 KiB, 137 hits)
* NWN 1.69 Portraits & Soundsets Unlocker (18.3 KiB, 164 hits)
* NWN 1.69 Portraits & Soundsets Unlocker (readme) (216 bytes, 159 hits)
* NWN 1.69 Portraits (93.4 KiB, 171 hits)
* NWN 1.69 Soundsets (31.6 KiB, 196 hits)

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.

Produced by: Azarael
Website: Tradução Ultima Underworld
Releases:
* Patch v0.2 (95% translated) (146.9 KiB, 88 hits)

This is a not-quite-complete Portuguese translation of Ultima Underworld. A full translation does (or did) exist, but I seem to have misplaced the relevant file, and it is no longer available for download from the developer.

Produced by: Fallible Dragon
Releases:
* UWEdit (306.6 KiB, 132 hits)

A simple utility for editing character statistics in Ultima Underworld.

Produced by: Jonathan Rimmer
Website: UWE Homepage
Releases:
* Ultima Underworld Editor (156.7 KiB, 169 hits)
* UWE Source (2.6 KiB, 101 hits)
* DPMI Memory Manager (40.5 KiB, 99 hits)

A 2D, DOS-based editor for both Ultima Underworld and Ultima Underworld 2. Also available is the source code. The program may require the DPMI Memory Manager because of the Allegro libraries that were used in its making.

Produced by: Peroxide/Telemachos
Websites: UGCK and Viewer
Releases:
* Underworld Viewer (84.8 KiB, 127 hits)
* Underworld Game Creation Kit (20.2 MiB, 131 hits)

Although Peroxide has ceased to be, some of their old projects are still kicking around on the Internet. The Underworld Viewer is a simple utility that renders all the levels of both Ultima Underworld and Ultima Underworld 2 using whichever acceleration mode you prefer so that you can view them and wander through them. It may also be possible to load the level models into a 3D rendering program, if the images on Peroxide’s site are any indication.

And Telemachos, formerly of Peroxide, never seems to run out of ways to keep busy. Building off of the Underworld Viewer, he produced an actual editing kit with which to edit different aspects of Ultima Underworld, as well as walk through all the levels and (possibly, if the screenshots tell the truth) test-play them.

Produced by: Vividos
Website: Underworld Adventures
Releases:
* Release 0.9 Mojito (Win) (794.0 KiB, 92 hits)
* Release 0.9 Mojito (Linux) (571.9 KiB, 71 hits)
* Release 0.9 Mojito (Debian) (733.4 KiB, 66 hits)
* Release 0.9 Mojito (Source) (1.5 MiB, 70 hits)
* Release 0.9 Mojito (Linux Src.) (1.5 MiB, 60 hits)
* Release 0.9 Mojito Music (6.9 MiB, 78 hits)

Much like Exult and Nuvie, this project aimed to re-create an engine for an Ultima game that ran on modern operating systems without the use of patches. In this case, the game was Ultima Underworld. and the results looked promising. This engine, like Exult and Nuvie, used the original game data files.

Sadly, as of February 2007, Vividos has stopped development on Underworld Adventures.

I contemplated for a while the idea of moving this remake to the Orphanage, but decided against it for the moment; with Mojito, the remake had come fairly far along, enough so that I’m content to leave it in UW Remakes section for the time being.

Produced by: Twister Software
Releases:
* Demo 0.1 (3.5 MiB, 102 hits)
* OpenGL Test (40.0 KiB, 81 hits)
* Aybss Test (203.6 KiB, 72 hits)

A remake of Ultima Underworld by Twister Software which would have added OpenGL support and improved graphics to the classic Origin game. This one may soon have to be moved to the Orphanage, given that Twister’s website seems to have gone the way of the dodo.

Produced by: Moscow Dragon, Sir Cabirus Dragon
Website: Sir Cabirus
Releases:
* NT Patch (44.4 KiB, 91 hits)

Windows NT (and NT-derived systems like Windows 2000) are not always game-friendly platforms. Moscow Dragon came up with a patch that allowed Ultima Underworld 2 to run under the Windows NT/2000 environment, and this was later expanded upon by Sir Cabirus Dragon to support Ultima Underworld 1 as well.

Produced by: Panzer Dragon
Website: The Other Codex
Releases:
* General MIDI Patch (58.7 KiB, 104 hits)

This patch adds MIDI music to Ultima Underworld, to give the game a bit of additional atmosphere.

Produced by: Origin Systems Inc. (defunct)
Website: Origin Systems (redirects to UO site)
Releases:
* Underworld Patch (201.4 KiB, 78 hits)

While this patch should not be necessary if you’re running the CD-based version of the game, it corrects several known bugs in the disk-based version of the game (including the dreaded “Inventory Bug”).