Xu4 0.9 - Ultima IV Recreated.

XU4 is a recreation of the classic computer game Ultima IV. The purpose of the project is to make it easy and convenient to play on modern operating systems. xu4 is primarily inspired by the much more ambitious project Exult. Linux is the primary development platform, but it should be trivial to port to any system with SDL support.

XU4 isn't a new game based on the Ultima IV story -- it is a faithful recreation of the old game, right up to the crappy graphics. If you are looking for a game with modern gameplay and graphics, this is not it -- yet. New features that improve the gameplay and keep with the spirit of the original game will be added.

The actual data files from Ultima 4 are loaded at runtime, which means that a copy of Ultima 4 for DOS must be present at runtime. Fortunately, Ultima IV is available as closed-source freeware on the internet (legally). A copy is mirrored at xu4.sourceforge.net.

It is also available from http://plf.zarb.org, http://www.zip.com.au/~mfleming/ultima/u4download.html, http://members.tripod.com/~hardwire1/ultima4.zip, http://www.members.aol.com/tommage/UltimaPage/ultima4.zip, or http://www.nightfall.org/~deep/ultima/main.html among many other sites.

Once downloaded, it must be unzipped in /usr/share/games/u4/ultima4.