Spamming the blog!
So as I wrap up my nightly web-surfing, I'm reminded of a few things I ran across earlier this week.
The first is the uDevGames 2003 contest, which starts on Monday. I scrounged up 3 spare games that I've got and donated them as prizes on behalf of Westlake. I'm hoping a few of the other Westlake guys might chip in a couple too. This is the third year of the contest, and last year they had some pretty good entrants. I expect the quality of this year's submissions to be better still.
I am a big fan of the Ultima series, so I was happy to find that xu4, the Ultima 4 reverse-engineered remake, was updated this week to version 0.7. It's looking quite good now. There's also the beginnings of a similar project for Ultima 6 - the first game in the series I didn't play (because it didn't come out for the Apple II or Mac) - Nuvie. I'll be watching this one very closely. The current standard-bearer for open-source Ultima remakes is Exult, which plays Ultima 7 and its expansion pack. However, I've held off playing that until I've played Ultima 6. I'm just anal that way. :)
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Why Brad, I didn't know you were an Ultima junky?!
I first played Ultima IV on my Apple II and one of my all time favorite gaming experiences was Ultima V on my Apple IIGS! Man the hours I wasted on that game. I even got to the point where I could write in runes... kinda sad, now that I look back ;-)
Thanks for the links to the Ultima sites. BTW, there is a project to bring Ultima V into the future using the Dungeon Seige engine. Check it out here... http://www.u5lazarus.com/
Now that DS is out for OS X, I'm wondering if this will work too.
BTW, nice blog. I've always been a big fan of your MacMAME work, now I can be a fan of your random blogging! ;-)
Posted by: Patrick McFarland | August 4, 2003 03:31 PM