This open-source 3D client for Ultima Online has been updated to version 2520, for both Windows and Linux. Updated installer files can be downloaded from the project website, or via the project entry here.

Tags: 3D, Linux, Ultima Online, Windows

I see that Dino’s Ultima Page has posted some news concerning a couple of new file releases from different projects. Notably, Ranman’s Ultima V for TI Calculators has released a beta version of that port for the TI-92 and V200 calculators. This download has already been added to the project entry here at Aiera.

Also, the full version of a patch translating Ultima 7 to Spanish has been released. Following up on this lead led me to translation patches for Serpent Isle, Ultima 9, and Ultima Underworld about which I had previously been unaware, and these have all been added to Aiera.

• Ultima 7 Spanish translation
• Serpent Isle Spanish translation
• Ultima Underworld Spanish translation
• Ultima 9 Spanish translation

Additionally, the Ultima 6 Project Development Tools Package has been released, which enables the user to edit and compile conversations, edit game objects, edit game logic, and provides a host of other functions as well. It can be downloaded from the Project Britannia website, or from the Ultima 6 Project entry here at Aiera.

Other Ultima-related news I found whilst wandering through the Internet today includes:

Aklabeth

The web home of this remake of Akalabeth seems to be offline. I hope it’s just a temporary thing.

Ultima Underworld for Pocket PC

Conversely, this port of Ultima Underworld to the PocketPC seems to be back online again. Nice to see. That means that I get to move this project out of the cemetery!

Exult

This port of The Black Gate and Serpent Isle to…well…pretty much every operating system one could dare to think of…doesn’t look as though it’s been updated, by its website. But I noticed that the Windows and PocketPC snapshots were updated earlier this month, as was the snapshot for Exult Studio. All of these can be downloaded through the project entry here. The chief modification seems to concern a bug with multiracial Avatars.

Ultima: Iris

This 3D frontend for Ultima Online has been updated recently, to build version 2365. Linux and Windows source, and the Windows installer, can all be downloaded via the project entry here, or at the project website.

Finally, I was contacted by Yannick “Alcibiade” Kirschhoffer regarding a new piece of Ultima-related material he has produced. I’ll let him explain it in his own words:

I’ve been huge fan of the second Ultima trilogy. In 2003, I began work on writing guitar arrangements of most of this era’s music. I did the Ultima 6 score almost entirely, and some of U4 and U5 too. Then I compiled these in a songbook that I illustrated with artwork and quotes from the games.

It is available for download in PDF format at www.alcibiade.org

This is a handy little creation, beautifully arranged and attractively compiled into one volume. I’ve added a project entry for it under the category of “General Utility”, and it can be downloaded from there as well.

Well done, Yannick!

Tags: Aiera, Akalabeth, Aklabeth, Dino's Ultima Page, Dungeon Siege, Exult, Exult Studio, Linux, Pocket PC, PocketPC, Project Britannia, Serpent Isle, Texas Instruments, The Black Gate, translation, Ultima 4, Ultima 5, Ultima 6, Ultima 6 Project, Ultima 7, Ultima 9, Ultima Online, Ultima Underworld, Ultima: Iris, Windows

Produced by: Eric Fry
Website: Nuvie at Sourceforge
Releases:
* Windows Snapshot (1.1 MiB, 59 hits)
* Mac OS X Panther Snapshot (751.7 KiB, 45 hits)
* Mac OS X Tiger Snapshot (1.7 MiB, 59 hits)

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 OS X, there are downloadable binaries for both Windows and OS X 10.3+ (the developer feels these snapshots might also work under earlier versions of OS X, however this is untested. It is the opinion of Aiera that they will not, simply because of some key API changes that exist between OS X 10.2 and 10.3).

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

Tags: Aiera, Linux, Mac, Martian Dreams, Nuvie, OS X, Savage Empire, Ultima 6, Windows

Releases:
* [drain file 474 url U8 Mapper] ([drain file 474 size])

A set of Linux binaries that can be used to generate 2D or 3D maps of Ultima 8 using the original game graphics.

Tags: Linux, Ultima 8

Produced by: Andrew Taylor
Website: xu4- Ultima IV
Releases:
* xu4 - Windows v1.0b3 (1.1 MiB, 134 hits)
* xu4 - Mac OS X v1.0b3 (3.1 MiB, 93 hits)
* xu4 - Linux v1.0b3 (2.4 MiB, 87 hits)
* xu4 - Source v1.0b3 (410.3 KiB, 92 hits)
* xu4 - Zaurus v0.9 (1.9 MiB, 50 hits)
* xu4 - BeOS v0.5 (88.3 KiB, 76 hits)
* xu4 - Dreamcast (5.1 MiB, 74 hits)

Snapshots – May be unstable
* xu4 - Windows Snapshot (1.4 MiB, 92 hits)
* xu4 - Mac OS X Snapshot (3.3 MiB, 80 hits)

Andrew Taylor’s SDL-based re-creation of Ultima 4 is intended to be a cross-platform version of the game much as Exult is for Ultima 7.

And, since Ultima 4 is freeware, he (like many others) has also made available for download the [drain file 219 url original version] ([drain file 219 size]) of the game. As well, there is a [drain file 156 url graphics update] ([drain file 156 size]) available. The original game is now included with non-PC versions of xu4, but is required for Windows.

Tags: BeOS, Exult, freeware, Linux, Mac, SDL, Ultima 4, Ultima 7, Windows, xu4