Courtesy of Pix and Natreg Dragon, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present over 120 images of the pages for the manual, quickstart guide, reference guide, and maps shipped with the Ultima Trilogy, a compilation of the first three Ultima games released for DOS.
The Manual
The Quickstart Guide
The Reference Guide
The Maps
Download the documents:
* Ultima Trilogy Manual (hosted externally)
* Ultima Trilogy Quickstart Guide (hosted externally)
* Ultima Trilogy Reference Guide (hosted externally)
* Ultima Trilogy Map – Ultima 1 (hosted externally)
* Ultima Trilogy Map – Ultima 2 (hosted externally)
* Ultima Trilogy Map – Ultima 3 (hosted externally)
The Ultima 1 portion of the documentation, not unlike…say…the Compendium that shipped with Ultima 6, does not delve into the actual mechanics of playing the game at all; it is entirely comprised of descriptions of the game world and what inhabits it (friend and foe alike). All of the artwork therein is hand-drawn (probably by Denis Loubet; it looks like his work). Indeed, it’s basically just the original manual for the PC version of the game.
The Ultima 2 and Ultima 3 manuals, meanwhile, have a similar look and feel to the Ultima 1 manual, but balance the descriptions of in-game things and hand-drawn art with gameplay screenshots and information about how to actually play the games.
Anyhow, the usual disclaimers follow.
The images here, in JPEG format, are lower-resolution extracts from PDF scans of the original manuals. They are legible, but not of particularly high quality, and thus are not recommended for printing; download the linked PDF files for that purpose.
Most importantly, though: enjoy! Pull up the images, download the documents, and pore over them. Search out every little detail. Ultima Aiera is indebted to Pix for collecting all these documents, to Richard Garriott and Mary Taylor Rollo, and to anyone else who worked on the original documents at Origin Systems.
