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  Ultima IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, first released in 1985 (USCO# PA-317-504) for the Apple II, is the fourth in the series of Ultima computer role-playing games.
Ultima IV is a rarity among RPGs in that the game's story does not center on asking a player to overcome a tangible ultimate evil.
Ultima IV Multiplayer - The Quest of the Avatar rewritten for a multiplayer experience.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ultima_IV   (1118 words)

  
 Ultima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ultima tells the story of a hero who would be summoned by the ruler of a fantasy world, known first as Sosaria, later as Britannia, whenever troubles would arise.
Ultima I-V were originally developed on and released for the Apple II family of computers.
Ultima IX: Redemption is an effort to create an alternative to Ultima IX: Ascension, writing a new ending to the Age of the Guardian saga of the Ultima series.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ultima   (1332 words)

  
 Phosphor-Dot Fossils: Ultima IV: Quest Of The Avatar
Fortunately, the release of a major, much-hyped new Ultima game brought about a Star Wars-like renaissance of the older material, and Origin included Ultima IV on their CD-ROM of the first seven or eight games in the series last year.
Ultima IV provided players with an vast world to explore, and that world was populated with a rich tapestry of characters, evils beyond comprehension...and good, good beyond anything that anyone had ever put into a game before.
Your character in Ultima IV is an extension of you - your judgment calls on the fortune teller's questions are a reflection of your real life values.
www.thelogbook.com /phosphor/spring00/u.html   (836 words)

  
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In Ultima IV we are introduced to the concept of the virtues for the first time.
Although Ultima IV is a dos game it's very easy to get it running on a windows 95/98 machine, just double click on ultima.com in the folder where Ultima IV is, and away you go.
Ultima IV has an internal karma counter for each of the eight virtues.
members.lycos.co.uk /SilvaDragon/ultima4.html   (435 words)

  
 The Ultima Legend
Ultima VII also have an important level of interactivity, and it is possible to bake bread, make sword and move a lot of things around.
The world of Britannia is disconcerting as well, and although the difference are easily explained by the two hundred years between Ultima VI and this new episode, it leaves in bitter taste and it doesn't feel like we're back in the world we've discovered and learned to love in the previous trilogy.
In the end, Ultima VII remains a very good game with many qualities, but unfortunately it suffers form the comparison to is predecessors which in their time, were far superior to it.
www.ccwebdesign.ca /ultimalegend/index_eng.php?titre=eng/u7_titre.htm&main=eng/u7_main.htm   (1422 words)

  
 Ultima IV Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Ultima IV was the best of the Ultima series, and a monumental RPG for the Atari Computers.
In Ultima IV, you control the Avatar, and must go on a spiritual path to save the land from evil daemons and spirits.
At a time when games were simulating ADandD, Ultima IV was years ahead of its time.
www.intellivision.ca /Reviews/ultimaIV.html   (372 words)

  
 [No title]
Summer 1987 is scheduled to be the summer of Ultima V. After nearly two years of work and a dramatic increase in the size of his Origin Systems staff, designer/programmer Richard Garriott, aka Lord British, is preparing to release his latest, greatest, and biggest Ultima yet.
Ultima V has eight times as much graphic variety as the original Ultima and twice as much as Ultima IV.
In Ultima IV, you're personally going out there to prove yourself as this glorious and virtuous person--and all of the towns and villages are preaching or at least expounding on the virtues.
www.textfiles.com /humor/COMPUTER/ultimav.hum   (962 words)

  
 Dino's Ultima Info Page
Ultima IV can be upgraded from here on the Moongates Ultima IV Annex or from La Legende d' Ultima's Ultima IV downloads.
Ultima IV: The Dawn of Virtue is the remake of Ultima IV.
An Ultima IV walkthrough by Stephen Lee is on Psycho_ultima.
www.geocities.com /mitzenos/uinfo/u4.htm   (326 words)

  
 Lora's CRPG Reviews: Ultima IV, V, and VI
The game can be completed either way.) Ultima 6 added a new level of character interaction and turned the mythology of the series on its head, forcing the main character to examine his or her beliefs from an entirely new angle.
Ultima 1, 2, and 3 are not part of the same plot arc and are so old-school they take a lot of determination to play anymore.
Finding Ultima IV, V, and VI: All three of these games (as well as six of the others) come bundled together in one CD set, the Ultima Collection, along with all the extra software you need to get these older titles working on modern systems.
www.geocities.com /ataniel/ultimasreview.htm   (1457 words)

  
 Ultima Dragons Internet Chapter
She told me that she was playing a game called Ultima III and she told me a little bit about the background of the game and what was going on in the game at the time.
Since then I have managed to play parts of Ultima IV and Ultima V and I have completed Ultima VI: the False Prophet which is my favorite of all the current Ultima games that I have played (I am getting a new computer soon to play Ultima IX).
Those who first started playing Ultima IV struggled at the beginning because the old habits would make it impossible to succeed unless the player truly tried to become the Avatar which is the embodiment of the 8 virtues of the game.
members.tripod.com /ace942/udic.htm   (1580 words)

  
 GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Wii PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar was the first heavily story-driven adventure in the Ultima series, and Garriott could not predict how fans would react to his new approach.
Even if it looked like III, Ultima IV was radically different in that the world was considerably larger, character interaction had much more depth, and the character party grew from four to eight.
Ultima IV required players to uphold and personify eight Britannian virtues, namely compassion, valor, honor, honesty, spirituality, sacrifice, justice, and humility under the three principles of truth, love, and courage.
www.gamespot.com /features/ultima/07.html   (278 words)

  
 treesong.org / Ultima
Ultima is a computer role-playing game series whose original run spanned 20 years, nine (and a half) major episodes, and several spin-off games.
The most famous and popular Ultima aficionados can be found in the Ultima Dragons, of which I am a member.
Ultima University = This site is an effort to preserve, share, understand, and celebrate all aspects of Ultima.
treesong.org /ultima   (436 words)

  
 Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima 4
There is an Ultima IV Transcript with all the Ultima 4 dialogue at Underworld Dragon's Notable Ultima.
The Moongates Ultima IV Annex has an interesting Moongate Map showing the destinations of the moongates when you move your cursor over one of the moon phases.
Ultima IV: The Dawn of Virtue is a remake of Ultima IV led by Jaakko Peltonen, using a completely new engine.
www.shiftedphase.com /dino/ultima/u4.php   (788 words)

  
 Tea Leaves: Playable Classics: A Selected Ultima
Ultima II, for example, introduced "moongates" as a means of travel, and cemented the game world as involving an odd mixture of medieval and futuristic technology.
Originally published in 1985, Ultima IV stands out as the apotheosis of the series in terms of what may be the most underrated aspect of games: pacing.
Ultima III took place on "Sosaria." Ultima IV takes place on "Britannia." By the time Ultima VII rolled around, the mythology of the world had been calcified and enshrined into canon.
tleaves.com /weblog/archives/000467.html   (3455 words)

  
 Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In this first game of the second Ultima trilogy, you must embark on a quest to discover the way of Virtue.
Ultima 4 Mapping Program (C Source Code) written by Otmar Lendl.
Ultima 4 Music Patch v2.02 created by Aradindae Dragon.
members.aol.com /UltimaWrld/ultima04.html   (304 words)

  
 Virtual Apple 2 - Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar - Disk image
Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar (cracked) (Boot) (Disk 1 of 4).zip
Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar (cracked) (Britannia) (Disk 2 of 4).zip
Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar (cracked) (Towne) (Disk 3 of 4).zip
www.virtualapple.org /ultimaivdisk.html   (222 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Ultima IV: The Dawn of Virtue is canceled.
Therefore, Ultima IV: The Dawn of Virtue is canceled and the project is closed.
Ultima IV: The Dawn of Virtue was a project I was very passionate about and on which I had worked arduously.
users.tkk.fi /~jtpelto2/ultima4   (89 words)

  
 The Collectible ULTIMA
It's dated now, but Ultima IV is still recognized widely as a watershed in the history of computer gaming.
Ultima IV is the earliest of the Ultima games that has not been significantly remade by Origin.
Nintendo relented, and Origin eventually released the Sega version of Ultima IV, but it was the only game they ever developed for Sega.
www.notableultima.com /collectibles/Title_U4.html   (739 words)

  
 Ultima IV: The Quest of Avatar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Ultima IV was the beginning of a new design philosphy for Origin's popular Ultima series: It implemented a gaming philosophy practically unheard of in CRPG gaming, where fighting was considerably deemphasized and more attention given to charitible and virtuous acts.
Ultima IV focuses on character development through character interaction and personal and spiritual exploration, requiring performing tasks seldomly violent in nature.
Truly professional in every respect, Ultima IV is a great game with a different philosophy--great for fans of the Ultima series, CRPGs, or computer games in general.
plover.net /~hloif/Reviews/ComputerGames/Ultima4.html   (129 words)

  
 Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar for Apple II - MobyGames
But what really makes Ultima IV shine is its radical departure from any other RPG made before or since in terms of the story and goal.
Instead of building up your character by any means possible in order to face the Ultimate Evil in a big bang up showdown, in Ultima IV you were trying to become the Avatar, a role model of sorts for the people of the land.
The concept of the virtues in Ultima IV were partially inspired by Richard Garriott's desire to prove otherwise.
www.mobygames.com /game/apple2/ultima-iv-quest-of-the-avatar   (569 words)

  
 Ultima VIII
While the first 3 parts are not based on the principle of the eight virtues, this background story was ever evolving from Ultima IV on.
Ultima VIII was a huge disappointment, you can't have party members, no companion meetings,…the list can go on.
There are a few Ultimas that can take advantage of the AWE32 family of Soundblaster cards (AWE32, SB32, AWE64, AWE64 Gold) which in general are of no more use to a gamer than a Soundblaster 16.
members.chello.at /theodor.lauppert/games/ultima8.htm   (592 words)

  
 Ultima: The Reconstruction
I've also had another look at sprite positioning and scaling: sizes "look about right" (this is the only justification I have for the scale values used, I have no idea where they actually come from).
I've also made three other updates: Twister's Underworld Remake has TechDemo 1.0 available; XU4 version 0.5 has been published which now features the MIDI music; and the Exult MacOS X port has been uploaded to the site.
Finally, I've also uploaded the TSSHP 0.2.9c, the UW PocketPC slideshow demo, and the U3 GameBoy Color source code, all of which have now been released by their respective authors.
reconstruction.voyd.net /index.php?event=oldNews&archiveYear=2002   (5153 words)

  
 eBay - ultima iv, Games, Vintage Games items on eBay.com
C64: Ultima IV (Ultima 4): Quest of the Avatar (ORIGIN)
Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar - Apple II 5.25 Disks
Ultima IV Quest Of The Avatar Manga Origin Jp Comic '89
search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=ultima+iv&newu=1&krd=1   (262 words)

  
 Slashdot | Ultima V - Unofficially Reborn Via Dungeon Siege
Ultima V: Lazarus is a complete, but unofficial recreation of ORIGIN Systems' classic 1987 role-playing game Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny, utilizing the modding capabilities of Gas-Powered Games' Dungeon Siege.
I'd like to add the Ultima IV remake Avatarship Polished [planetneverwinter.com] to this list, which is a Neverwinter Nights module.
I mean, (IMO) all of the recent Ultima games have sucked, and I don't think that any of the newfangled titles have been able to touch III, IV, and V in terms of fun and playability.
games.slashdot.org /games/04/02/02/1557223.shtml?tid=127&tid=186&tid=206&tid=209   (2023 words)

  
 SMS- Ultima IV
Ultima IV does not have the flashy graphics and animation that Phantasy Star has.
Comments: It is very difficult to fuck up a conversion of a game as great as ULTIMA IV, and this is no exception.
Comments: 'Ultima IV' and 'Phantasy Star' are the better RPGs ever made, and should be the exemple to be followed by the todays games!
alexkidd.com /show_game.php3?ID=152   (831 words)

  
 The Literal ULTIMA
I originally extracted Ultima IV's conversations just to see if I could do it, and realized in the process that there were several "hidden" items I'd never found in the game.
And the gravestones in each game were often used as hidden kudos to various people on the development teams; where possible, I've identified for you the developers and testers being credited.
Ultima Documentation Project has beautiful copies of all the docs from the first six games, with color graphics and everything, and links to where you can find exact copies of the originals in Acrobat format.
www.notableultima.com /literal   (297 words)

  
 Ultima - AtariAge Forums
Ultima I was on 1 disk I blieve though (program disk and side 2 was the player master).
Ultima II has two disks; one is double-sided and the other is single sided.
Ultima II was kind of easy as you could just sit off shore in a ship blasting monsters with your cannons and they couldn't touch you.
www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=17744   (885 words)

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