My Geek Notes

1-10: I don’t care about top 10 lists.

It’s been a long time since I last posted, I’ve received hundreds of emails from fans concerned about my absence. Rest assured that I am back and here to stay.

My attention has been stolen from me by some rather old games, both single player and multiplayer. I talk of the Ultima Games, specifically ultima 6, 7, 8, 9, and ultima online. I have made it my intention to play through atleast one of these games, while building up a character on ultima online at the same time. I will of course tinker with all of them from time to time, as my attention span is incredibly small.

Some great tools to take a look at if you are interested in playing the classics are available to help run the games in current windows, mac, and linux environments (there are probably others, but i don’t care).

Dosbox is a classic dos environment emulator that works incredibly well at running your old games without having to put much effort into it. I recommend downloading a front end if you have alot of games to play that are DOS based.

Exult is a project to recreate Ultima 7 for modern operating systems, using the game’s original plot, data, and graphics files (thats directly from their site). This baby gives you plenty of options and lets you play the game in a window without ever entering a dos environment. A must have if you are going to play this one.

Pentagram, much like ultima 7’s exult is a project aiming to create an Ultima 8 engine for use on modern operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (another stolen quote). I played around with this one last night for a while, this one still has some bugs to be worked out, but for the most part the game is playable entirely in this new environment. Give a shot, it’s awesome to set the games resolution higher with a nice pixel scaler so that it looks more modern.

Anyways I better stop ranting on, there are tons of other projects available, just look them up on google and I’m sure you’ll find something that peeks your interest.