On AtariAge, a guy named Atlan Roland started working on an attempt to
remake an engine for Ultima V on the 8-bit using the assets from the PC
version of U5.


He has a runable demo posted in a thread over on AtariAge.

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/345354-ultima-v-wip/

It's also noteworthy that another user Zolaeria did some amazing music
for U5 and the two of them have worked together to marry the two
projects. Once they get the storyline part of the game implemented, it
should be even better.

He also posts his source code.

ZeroPage Homebrew did a video.... https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew/

I did a little walk around video too... https://vimeo.com/783754355

The author also has another thread on AA in the programming section. https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319655-ultima-v-world-explorer-in-antic- mode-e/

There... now we have something to talk about.

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Well, I think it looks awesome. I posted the info about it on my BBS just
as soon as I saw it. Very cool project, I hope they stick with it until
its completely done. The Atari 8bit crowd deserves an Ultima V - heck,
everyone does! :)


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On 04 Feb 23 20:34:24 Darklord wrote...

Well, I think it looks awesome. I posted the info about it on my BBS
just as soon as I saw it. Very cool project, I hope they stick with
it until its completely done. The Atari 8bit crowd deserves an Ultima
V - heck, everyone does! :)

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

The part I like most... the included source code. I'm sure there is
likely an editor out there for the assets, so taking what he's done and
making your own game should be easy.

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On 04 Feb 23 20:34:24 Darklord wrote...

Well, I think it looks awesome. I posted the info about it on my BBS
just as soon as I saw it. Very cool project, I hope they stick with
it until its completely done. The Atari 8bit crowd deserves an Ultima
V - heck, everyone does! :)

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

Still trying to track something down though.....

Years ago, a Commodore SysOp I had been talking to in Cincinnatti had
just bought his first lot of Atari stuff. Since he had been helping me
with advice on my C=128 that I got for free but needed some TLC, I was
helping him with some "using the 8-bit in the modern age".

He was showing me pictures from all the stuff, and he had some Ultima V
disks with what appeared to be genuine Origin labels on them!

They even said "Atari" so it wasn't like some C= or Apple disks got stuck
in there.

We never really got a chance to explore it further (I was going to go
down there to visit, but that didn't end up happening with work) and then
we kinda lost contact when the world went nuts. I tried calling his BBS
but it seems to be down.

Hope the guy is ok... hope also that we can solve the mystery of the U5
disks.

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On 05 Feb 23 08:10:58 Commodore Clifford wrote...

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

The part I like most... the included source code. I'm sure there is
likely an editor out there for the assets, so taking what he's done
and making your own game should be easy.

To which Darklord replies...

Yeah, it's too bad source code isn't included more often. Danged if my (SysOp'ing) life wouldn't be much simpler if I had the source code to BBS Express! ST.


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I'm assuming you mean Ultima V disks for the Atari 8bit line? That would
seem odd but wasn't there a planned release that never got off the ground
for the Atari 8bits? Seems like I read that somewhere...


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On 06 Feb 23 23:02:08 Darklord wrote...

I'm assuming you mean Ultima V disks for the Atari 8bit line? That
would seem odd but wasn't there a planned release that never got off
the ground for the Atari 8bits? Seems like I read that somewhere...

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

As I said, the labels looked legit... but they could have been "created".
I never got a chance to get a good look at them unfortunately.

On AtariMania, it does look like there was a WIP but whether that was
official or another home brew I'm not certain. I couldn't get it to run
well on the real hardware (the one from AtariMania... you know I already
did get the new one going).

I'm thinking we'll take another look at it during one of our BBS
community chats.

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"I'm thinking we'll take another look at it during one of our BBS
community chats."

Sounds like a plan. :)



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