ULTIMA IV Special Edition (Atari ST)

This modified version of Ultima IV for the ST/Falcon 030 is completely free of charge and includes the following changes:

A big part of the tileset has been replaced with the much better looking Ultima V tiles

• LZW compression has been removed for faster loading and replaced with Speed Packer 3
• Multilingual English/French with the French translation from Ubi Soft fully fixed
• Restored unused music track for the main menu and Lord British Castle
• Fits on one floppy disk, no more floppy disk swapping messages
• Fixed for hard drive
• New intro/character creation graphics converted from the Sharp x68000 version
• Additional music tracks from Ultima III
• Cheat/debug menu accessible with the numpad ‘*’ key
• Exit any towne, village or castle directly with the ESC key
• Save in all cities, villages and castles, with the exception of Lord British’s castle.
• Reload your previous save with the numpad ‘-‘ key.
• Display your progression in each virtue (aka. karma) with numpad key 9.
• Display character statistics directly with numpad keys 1-8, and main inventory with 0
• Shake screen effect when you hit or get hit in combat and when you fire your ship’s canons
• Correct music tempo in PAL mode
• There is now music when you talk to NPCs
• Dungeon 2D rooms now have a correct palette
• Dungeon 3D graphics tweaked and updated
• No more mouse cursor artefacts when peering a gem
• You can now camp in cities (not as effective as renting a room at the inns)
• You can now camp while aboard a ship (with a brand new map)
• You can no longer disembark from a ship in the middle of the ocean (this was used as an exploit in the original game to use the camp function while aboard a ship, and is now useless)
• You can now walk in shallow water (it is as slow as walking through hills). If you are attacked by a land monster, you will fight on the swamp combat map
• New medieval font (from Demon’s Winter)
• No more distracting green colour font for character names
• Actions are now turn based, turns do not pass after 5 seconds of inactivity
• The game now asks if you want to exit a city when you reach its border
• When talking to Hawkwind, the music played is the Avatar theme instead of the merchant theme
• Smaller and better looking mouse cursor
• Includes Hythloth dungeon fix from https://www.moddb.com/games/ultima-iv-quest-of-the-avatar/downloads/hythloth-fix
• Balloon can now land on swamp, grass, trees and hill tiles and is completely controlable whitout drifting
• Ultima V Shop signs added for all shops
• Ultima V furniture added in all inhabited places (cosmetic change only, none are searchable)
• Rebalanced karma loss/gain (slightly lower loss and higher gain)
• Added roads like in Ultima V – they allow to travel more easily between some towns
• No more bumping into NPCs while exploring cities
• Free to download!