Produced by: kingspud
Website: Ultima 1 Revisited
This is an intriguing project which, for legal reasons, will probably never release a public download of its work. That is because the goal of the project is to re-create Ultima 1, using the original programming language the game was written in, on an Apple IIe. The project’s mastermind, kingspud, gives a basic synopsis of his intentions with Ultima 1 Revisited here.
So far, in under a year, kingspud has made excellent progress, and has even stepped line by line through the BASIC code underlying the game.
Categories: Fan Projects, Featured
[...] Kingspud’s attempt to re-create Ultima 1 from scratch morphed, toward the end of 2011 and into the beginning of 2012, into a tutorial of sorts, which saw Kingspud stepping line by line through Ultima 1′s assembly language. He tnen promotly disappeared until October, in which he posted an “away but not gone” notice, announcing the delay of the project due to the arrival of toddler into the midst of his home. [...]