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Revision as of 10:37, 3 May 2015

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Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar cover
Developers
Origin Systems
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS September 16, 1985
Windows September 1, 2011[1]
macOS (OS X) October 18, 2012[2]
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar on Wikipedia
⤏ Go to series page
Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress 1982
Ultima III: Exodus 1983
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar 1985
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness 1987
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny 1988
Ultima VI: The False Prophet 1990
Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire 1990
Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams 1991
Ultima VII: The Black Gate 1992
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss 1992
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds 1993
Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle 1993
Ultima VIII: Pagan 1994
Ultima Online 1997
Akalabeth: World of Doom 1998
Ultima IX: Ascension 1999

Key points

Requires xu4 or DOSBox to play on modern systems.
Released for free
The unpatched game has issues on faster systems
While the original Apple II version had music through sound card support and most other versions played music using their native sound hardware, the unpatched PC version doesn't have any music
Both of the problems mentioned above can be fixed with either xu4 or Ultima IV Upgrade Patch. Both also implement various other improvements and fixes

General information

Ultima Codex - A huge wiki for the series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
 Use DOSBox.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Free download. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty

Game data

Save game data location

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System Location
PARTY.SAV contains the current party.
MONSTERS.SAV contains the monsters table (data about NPCs and objects in the game world).[4]
OUTMONST.SAV contains a backup of the monsters table.
DNGMAP.SAV contains dungeon map data.[4]

Video settings

File:GOG.com DOSBox Configurator v2.png
Graphics settings (GOG.com)

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 27 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible DirectX 9 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

References