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Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness

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Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness cover
Developers
Origin Systems
DOS John Fachini
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS 1987
Windows August 30, 2011[1]
macOS (OS X) October 18, 2012[2]
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⤏ 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

The original 1980/1981 version was released only for Apple II and Atari 8-bit computers. The PC version was released in 1987 and is probably based on the 1986 remake for Apple II and Commodore 64. This PC version was actually released after the PC version of Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar and supports EGA graphics straight out of the box
The PC version has slightly better graphics than the versions for Apple II, Atari and Commodore 64 although not quite on the level of the PC version of Ultima IV
Unlike the PC versions of Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress, Ultima III: Exodus and Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, the game runs without issues on faster systems even when not using any unofficial patches
The PC version suffers from some additional bugs when compared to the 1986 version for Apple II and C64. For example, the armor apparently doesn't give any protection during combat in the dungeons.[3]

General information

The Codex of Ultima Wisdom - 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
 Run in DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 DOS version in DOSBox. Includes Ultima II and Ultima III. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin
Origin
 Not available in some regions.
Windows

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\PLAYER*.U1
Windows <path-to-game>\PLAYER*.U1[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Characters are saved as individual files (PLAYER1.U1, PLAYER2.U1, etc.)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video settings

300px
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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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)
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)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. ↑ 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).

References