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On this day 40 years ago, Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar was released for the Apple II. Its non-traditional goal of improving yourself instead of fighting the flavor of the day antagonist set a new standard for games and gaming. Today, Ultima IV is still often included in lists of top video games of […]

For the first time in years, the downloads page has been updated with a new version of the client and server! You can extract the download locally to host your own local server and play the game using the client. Hopefully, a public server will be provided soon. For now, you can help a lot […]

Kimsch has posted a speed run of the original Ultima IV on YouTube, with the initial play-through clocking in at 2 hours 31 seconds and 11,051 moves. That establishes the baseline on which he hopes to improve with a follow-up video. I’m still not sure if Ultima IV as ran under CUO can be completed […]