@HauntedOwlbear@eldritch.cafe it came up in the bigbox moderator group that we are missing you 🤩
I‘m barely on any socials now but thought I‘ll let you know 🤘happy holidays

Flatpak is not the default option - exult has just been added to flatpak this month. And while I‘m probably listed there I have not much knowledge about it 🤷‍♂️
And may need help with adjusting the docs for this 🤪

I think the flatpak saves/loads it to/from a different path

Cleaned my Apple IIe. The previous owner was a chainsmoker. And underneath the keyboard caps… uagh… terribly and terrifyingly dirty (no picture taken).

Glorious!

Very happy to say Lord British, Richard Garriott @richardgarriott.bsky.social gave his blessing for Ultima 8 Exult. This means a lot to us because, even though he may not own the rights to Ultima right now, he is still its creator. To know he's both aware of us and supportive means the world!

Eew!

But strangely still appealing 🤷‍♂️

Amen!

A calvin and hobbes meme explaining that all RPGs can be traced back to Ultima and Wizardry in 1981. Every game is either a play on ultima or wizardry. This extends to JRPGs because Dragon's Quest was influenced by Ultima and all dungeon crawlers are based on Wizardyr. Elder Scrolls is a Wizardry and Baldur's Gate is an Ultima. Wizardry was so popular in Japan it persisted for years exclusively in Japan as its own sub franchise before Digital Extremes remastered the series. SMT is a wizardry. Most Atlus and Xseed Dungeon Crawlers are.

I did something dumb

Check Out “xu4 for Scratch”, a Scratch-Based Remake of “Ultima 4” A remake of “Ultima 4”, based on “xu4”, using the Scratch programming language.

ultimacodex.com/2024/04/chec... and that surfaced right when my son started with scratch - happy coincidence

Yes, mindblowing at times. My son has to do Scratch in school for the IT lessons and once we dove into it, it‘s fun 🤩

Have you tried the Ultima IV conversion to scratch?
It‘s genius!

watch the skies!

… see the dangers (as in job threatening) and theft of creatives‘ work.
The novelty has worn off for me, now I‘m mostly annoyed when it is blatant AI work or annoyed that it makes me look very closely to tell whether AI or original art.
Anyways, sorry that it drove you out ;(

I didn‘t notice that but I‘m not very active in the group anyway unless something catches my eyes or I have something to post about Exult.
I‘m still on the fence about AI. I can see the want to use it, novelty and able to „create“ art that was impossible to do on your own before. But I also see

These two are from the most important Ultima games!!! (But I‘m biased)

You‘ve been identified as an Ultima Dragon and thus… a lot of followers that seem random 🤪

Let’s find all the #UltimaDragons on Bluesky. Or at least more #Ultima fans, and invite them to become #UDIC members. Who’s with me?

Gallara Dragon
-==(UDIC)==-

Since a lot of Ultima Dragons are present, we are looking for an Android coder who can enhance our launcher for Exult.
Exult is an open source engine remake for the Ultima VII games since 1999!

🤘