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Revision as of 02:45, 15 December 2018
Developers | |
---|---|
Origin Systems | |
DOS | James Van Artsdalen |
Publishers | |
Electronic Arts | |
Release dates | |
DOS | September 16, 1985 |
Windows | September 1, 2011[1] |
macOS (OS X) | October 18, 2012[2] |
Key points
- 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
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 | Use DOSBox. | |||
GOG.com | Free download. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3] | |||
Origin |
Essential improvements
Patches
- Ultima IV Upgrade Patch fixes the game's speed issues and adds the missing music to the game. Requires DOS or DOSBox to play however the patcher it's self is a Windows console app. For Mac or Linux use the DOS avpatch.exe.
Source ports
xu4 is a reverse engineered "source port" of the game for modern systems.
Game data
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
DOS | <path-to-game>\*.SAV |
Windows | <path-to-game>\*.SAV[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) |
-
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]
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
GOG Galaxy | ||
Origin |
Video settings
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)
Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
DOS video modes |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
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 |
Notes
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).