There have been a few updates in the Ultima community in the last week or so, including a couple I missed when I was doing my first look-through of Ultima links after I got back from England.

Ultima 5 for TI Calculators

Ranman informed me, in the comments for the previous news posting, that the Ultima 5 for TI Calculators project is progressing along quite nicely — at present, it is now 89% complete.

In all my years of schooling — even in engineering — I never had need for the big graphing calculators, but I believe my brother has one, and I’ll be sure to hook him up with this port of the classic game when it is finally done (which, from the sound of it, won’t be too much longer in coming)!

Ultima IX: Redemption

Corv, the leader of the Redemption project, brings news of another new team member: Kultan, who has joined the team as a writer. His responsibilities, evidently, will be dialogue for the denizens of Minoc and Paws.

His first developer diary can be viewed here.

Pentagram

I should have noticed this last time, but didn’t: the downloadable binaries for Pentagram were updated on July 12th (for the Mac binary) and August 12th (for the Windows binary). While I can’t remember if I grabbed the new Mac binary back before I left for England, I know for sure that I haven’t yet updated the Windows binary since I returned home.

So do be sure to grab the latest versions of this project from its entry here at Aiera.

Black Gate Keyring

Marzo has released a new version of his keyring mod for Ultima 7. It can be downloaded through the project entry here at Aiera.

Serpent Isle Fixes

Marzo has also released a new version of his fixes for Serpent Isle. It can be downloaded through the project entry here at Aiera.

Lost Sosaria

I’ve resumed development on Lost Sosaria after my month-length hiatus and vacation. Things are proceeding apace, but there’s not much news of that at the project site at present.

But I am always looking for volunteers for the project — it’s a pretty big task to be facing alone.

As of July 23rd, and until August 11th, I will be in Hylands Park and London, both in England, attending the 21st World Scouts Jamboree. If any of Aiera’s readers will also be in attendance there, you are more than welcome to come and hunt me down; it’s likely that I’ll be spending a fair bit of my time in the Faith and Beliefs area, as that is where I have volunteered to work as a part of the IST (International Service Team). More specifically, I’ll be there to talk about Catholicism.

Regarding the site here, however, I will of course probably not have time to manage Aiera whilst I am abroad. If anyone would like to help out during my absence, by posting any important news that may come up in the community, please let me know via the contact form. I will set you up a login and provide instruction in how to post news to the site (being that the site is a Wordpress implementation, posting news is really easy to begin with).

I’ll put up one more news posting this week, probably on Wednesday, just to re-cap any developments in the community to date. After that, I’m out of here, and will see you all in August.