Last updated: March 21st, 2007
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There are a few screenshots of Castle Black Dragon’s exterior up at Lost Sosaria. As I noted there:
This noble fortress has become the capital of New Sosaria, and is the home and seat of power of Andrea Morgan, the Queen of the Land.
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And yes, the game you see before you is, in fact Neverwinter Nights, with Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark installed. Doesn’t look as much like NWN as you may have been expecting, O Reader?
WtFD
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Last updated: March 21st, 2007
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Bumped for news-purposes: readers should note which updates have been made.
This is mostly for my benefit, O Reader, as my memory is not what it once was (not that it was ever amounted to much to begin with) and a list of bases to cover will be highly beneficial at this stage of Aiera’s re-development. A lot of the projects have advanced in their development arcs since the last update to the site, and I need to update the site files to reflect that.
So, at a glance, here’s what needs to get done:
Finish restoring old file categories and content - DONE!Update the files for Akalabeth Mobile - DONE!Update files for Lazarus to v1.2. See if it’s possible to upload the mod in one chunk instead of 7 RAR segments - DONE!Get local copies of Milestone 1 and Milestone 2 of Archon online - DONE!Nodling Dragon’s website seems to have a number of useful downloads and utilities; get these onto Aiera if they are not already - DONE!ZIO Interactive’s UW1 for PocketPC seems to have a downloadable demo now; get this - FALSE ALARM!Make sure the latest version of Exult is available for download - DONE!Check to make sure that I have the latest downloadable files for UW2 Revival on the site - DONE!Get the Eriadain files back online - DONE!Make sure I have the latest files for LOW - DONE!Make sure I have the latest files for SI French - DONE!Get the latest downloads for Pentagram, especially now that they have a Mac OS X Universal binary - DONE!Get the latest Project Britannia files - DONE!Make sure I have the latest version of EUO - DONE!Arx Fatalis seems to have a fair bit of downloadable media; see about getting hold of this - DONE!Get the latest version of U6O - DONE!Make sure I have the latest version of U4 Multiplayer - DONE!
That ought to keep my busy until the end of the week.
As I said, this is mostly for my benefit. However, O Reader, you are certainly welcome to look over the above list and take notice of anything in it which strikes you as being “news”; perhaps you, like myself, haven’t got the latest version of something yet. You can still make use of the old version of the site to find links to projects if they haven’t yet been ported to this new version of the site…go and do a little exploring!
Update: I thought of more to do:
Investigate the various Ultima Online mods and remakes (Legacy, Iris, etc.) - DONE!- Check out the UO for NWN module
Investigate the Lands of Ultima hak paks on the NWVault - NOT WORTH THE EFFORT!- Investigate the UO Britannia map module on the NWVault
These are somewhat longer-term goals, and the immediate goals of getting Aiera back up to the level of its previous iteration remains the priority. But I think it would be neat to expand the site a bit, and these seem good avenues to approach to do that with.
Upper-date:
Download Dark Core “offline” versions. - DONE!Update IRE files (Sourceforge seems to be having issues at the moment) to version 0.93 - DONE!Get Nazghul 0.5.5 and Haxima’s latest files - DONE!BGKeyring for Exult - DONE!Enhanced Graphics Mod for Lazarus - DONE!Looking Up camera Mod for Lazarus - DONE!Grail Quest’s Mods for Lazarus - DONE!Bugfix & Mod collection for Lazarus - DONE!- Get newest Dransik installers
- Check all links!
- Check for updates to the utilities!
Identify dead projects - DONE!- Add Lost Sosaria again
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Last updated: March 21st, 2007
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Over at The Reconstruction, Voyager Dragon has posted an interesting summary of the history of the non-canon Ultima title Escape from Mount Drash, as well as links to the various remakes of it that have emerged over the years.
Of all the games in the Ultima series, Escape from Mount Drash for the VIC-20 is like a bastard child among its brethren. Not only was it not even made by Richard Garriot, but it was made by one of his friends who published the game through Sierra Online shortly after the release of Ultima II. Unbeknownst to RG, the game was given the Ultima name. It barely sold, and it has been rumored that both retail outlets and the publisher were so embarrassed by the game that they either buried all their remaining copies or dumped them off of a cliff! For more info on this history of this game, see the Wikipedia entry.
Whatever the real story, the VIC-20 version surfaced again among Ultima fans in 1997 when Ben Johnson claimed to have found a copy, and again in 2000 when Fortran Dragon obtained a copy and posted the screenshots on his website. Thanks to their efforts, we now know more about this game.
Click on over for the rest of it!
WtFD
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Last updated: March 21st, 2007
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Thepal has posted some music samples on the Infinity Eternal website, just a couple of days after re-launching it.
The music samples, which are labeled as “works in progress” are the work of team member Jeremy LaMantia, and the featured tunes are two Virtue themes (Compassion and Valor), and the town of Vesper’s theme.
WtFD
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