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Revision as of 11:00, 16 April 2014

Ultima VIII: Pagan
Ultima VIII: Pagan cover
Developers
Origin Systems
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS March 15, 1994
Windows April 19, 2012
macOS (OS X) October 18, 2012
Ultima VIII: Pagan on Wikipedia
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

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

Template:Availability Table

Essential improvements

v2.12 Patch (retail)

The v2.12 Patch fixes various issues with the English, German and French floppy versions of the game. CD-ROM and digital versions are already patched.

Pentagram

Pentagram allows running the game at higher resolutions and has other enhancements.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

U8.INI contains installation settings; in-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared.
Pentagram settings are in pentagram.ini, located in %APPDATA%\Pentagram\ on Windows,~/Library/Application Support/Pentagram/ on OS X or ~/.pentagram/ on Linux.

Save game data location

SGHEADER.DAT contains save game names.
Pentagram saves are in %APPDATA%\Pentagram\u8-save\ on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/Pentagram/u8-save/ on OS X or ~/.pentagram/u8-save/ on Linux.

Video settings

In-game options menu.
File:GOG.com DOSBox Configurator v2.png
Graphics settings (GOG.com)

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

The Italian, Chinese, Korean and Polish retail versions only have the manuals translated, not the game itself.[1][2][3][4]
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
French
Spanish
Spanish retail only. Not available digitally.
Japanese
Japanese retail only. Speech is in English.[5]

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5
Processor (CPU) Intel 486 33 MHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 35 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA graphics card
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 45 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2GHz+
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

References