Ultima III: Exodus

Ultima III: Exodus

Developers
	Origin Systems
Mac OS (Classic)	James Van Artsdalen
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS	August 23, 1983
Mac OS (Classic)	1986
Windows	August 30, 2011
macOS (OS X)	October 18, 2012

Ultima

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 unpatched game has issues on faster systems

The unpatched game doesn't support graphic modes beyond CGA. The CGA graphics used in the PC version were created for contemporary composite monitors in order to get 16 colors through effect known as "color artifacting". This effect doesn't work correctly on newer video cards or other display types

The original Apple II version was the first Ultima game with music. While majority of the versions had full soundtrack from the Apple II original, the unpatched PC version doesn't have any music

The fan-made Ultima 3 Upgrade fixes the problems mentioned above in addition to other improvements and fixes. It also adds option to simulate the look of CGA mode on composite monitors in the VGA mode

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		Run in DOSBox.
GOG.com		DOS version in DOSBox. Includes Ultima I and Ultima II. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Origin		Not available in some regions. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.

Game data

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\PARTY.ULT <path-to-game>\ROSTER.ULT <path-to-game>\SOSARIA.ULT
Windows	<path-to-game>\PARTY.ULT <path-to-game>\ROSTER.ULT <path-to-game>\SOSARIA.ULT
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)

PARTY.ULT contains the current party.

ROSTER.ULT contains the stored character roster.

SOSARIA.ULT contains the map and information about the current game state.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video settings

Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution		320x200 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Set in Graphic Mode Setup (GOG.com) or toggle with Alt+↵ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		On/off only; toggle with V.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Everything is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
64-bit executable

System requirements

DOS

Windows

Mac OS (Classic)

macOS (OS X)

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