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-- Last updated on 29 May 2005 --

As you can see this page hasn't been updated for a DAMN long time now (and it's extremely unlikely that it ever will be again). However, I recommend visiting The Pentagram Project. These guys have FAR surpassed my progress with hacking Ultima 8 and are working on an Ultima 8 engine which will run on modern operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

For those that are interested, you can download a zip file containing later unreleased versions of all my files as well as source code to my tools (note that this code is DAMN old!). The zip file contains:

- Ultima 8 Graphics Viewer v1.22 (unreleased) + source code (Microsoft Visual Basic 1.0 for DOS)
- Ultima 8 Character Editor v1.11 + source code (Microsoft Visual Basic 1.0 for DOS)
- U8Flag v1.05 (unreleased) + source code (Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0 for DOS)
- Ultima 8 Cheat Menu Editor v1.02 (unreleased) + source code (Microsoft Visual Basic 1.0 for DOS)
- Ultima 8 Graphics Format v1.05 (unreleased)
- Ultima 8 Map Format v1.11 (unreleased)
- Ultima 8 Cheat Mode v1.05 (unreleased)
- Ultima 8 NPCs v1.01b (unreleased)
- Ultima 8 Weapons And Armour v1.10b (unreleased)
- And some other unreleased miscellaneous documents on various other file formats

There is also another zip file which contains source code (Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0) for a few Windows based Ultima 8 tools which I started on but never finished. Included in these tools is a more advanced graphics/shapes viewer and a (kinda working) map viewer.

Before downloading these files, please note that I AM NOT SUPPORTING THIS AT ALL! I haven't touched this stuff for years! Now here are the download links:
u8_unreleased.zip (175KB)
u8_unreleased_windows.zip (699KB)

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The Ultima World Wide Web Archice - Pagan: Ultima VIII
The Ultima 8 section at The Ultima World Wide Web Archive. You can get all the patches for Ultima 8 here (Upgrade to v2.12, Adlib fix, AWE32 fix, Gravis Ultrasound fix). You can also get a few other files such as images from the game (including images from the never to be completed add-on, The Lost Vale) as well as music files.

Ron Windeyer's Web Page
Provides advice and guidance on running Ultima 7 & 8. Also tells you how you can run these games natively through Windows which means no more special MS-DOS boot setups or errors because you have too much RAM, yay!

Electronic Arts Tech Support
You can get official tech support for Ultima 8 here, just do a search for "Ultima".

The Complete Guide to Ultima VIII: Pagan
Has HEAPS of information on Ultima 8. Definately worth a look.

Walkthrough of Pagan
An Ultima 8 walthrough by Fallible Dragon.

45 Things To Do
A walkthrough of Ultima 8 by Dan Fabulich which has 45 things to do to finish the game.

Mysterious Sosaria
An excellent site which is like a travel guide for the world of Ultima. Also has info on the forms of martial arts from Ultima as well as The Bard's Library which contains all of the music from every Ultima game.

Ultima 8 Graphics Viewer v1.21 (56.3KB) (newer file available in u8-unreleased.zip at top of page)
This lets you view the graphics from Ultima 8. Images can be saved as a BMP file. Multiple images can now be tagged and saved all at once.

Ultima 8 Character Editor v1.11 (46.5KB) (newer file available in u8-unreleased.zip at top of page)
This program lets you edit your name, strength, dexterity, hits, mana and intelligence. It also lets you enable the cheat mode. Any of the saved games can now be edited.

U8Flag v1.04 (5.42KB) (newer file available in u8-unreleased.zip at top of page)
This program enables you to change the flags in Ultima 8 with the cheat menu.

Ultima 8 Cheat Menu Editor v1.01 (37.7KB) (newer file available in u8-unreleased.zip at top of page)
With this program you can enable five extra options in the cheat menu in Ultima 8 (The menu you get when you left click on the Avatar once when the cheat mode is activated). The five extra options are: Create, Destroy, Give, Take and Contents.

Jeff Abramson's Ultima 8 FAQ v1.13 (36.1KB) 22 May 1997
The latest version of Jeff Abramson's Ultima 8 FAQ that includes a complete walkthrough to the game. Since I can no longer find Jeff Abramsom's homepage let alone the latest version of the FAQ, I have made it available on my web site as a zip file.

Ultima 8 Graphics Format v1.04 24 December 1996 (newer file available in u8-unreleased.zip at top of page)
This text file explains what I've found out about the Ultima 8 graphics format so far. It also contains source code for a simple graphics viewer.

Ultima 8 Map Format v1.04 3 May 1997 (newer file available in u8-unreleased.zip at top of page)
This text file explains what I've found out about the Ultima 8 map format so far.

Ultima 8 Cheat Mode v1.04 23 November 1996 (newer file available in u8-unreleased.zip at top of page)
This text file explains what I know about the cheat mode functions.

Ultima 8 NPCs v1.01 6 November 1997 (newer file available in u8-unreleased.zip at top of page)
This text file contains a list of all the NPCs in Ultima 8 along with their NPC numbers.

Ultima 8 Weapons And Armour v1.10 20 April 1997 (newer file available in u8-unreleased.zip at top of page)
This text file contains information on the weapons and armour in Ultima 8.