Pix’s Ultima Patcher

Produced by: Pix
Website: Pix’s Origin Adventures
Website: Ultima Patcher @ Fenyx4’s GitHub

Pix’s Ultima Patcher (Version 1.73)

The latest version of Pix’s Ultima Patcher, a handy utility for applying official and fan-made patches to all of the Ultima games.

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With the release of Ultimas 1-3 and Ultima 4 on GOG, the Codex’s predecessor site — Ultima Aiera — published an article containing information about patching and updating those Ultima titles, which subsequently became something of a living document as more and more Ultima titles became available for purchase online.

Origin Systems historian Pix (whose repository of scans of Ultima documentation is really worth checking out, by the way) took it upon himself to collect all of the various patches and updates discussed in that article into a single, easier-to-use application.

The utility should now cover all Ultima titles available on GOG, including the two Ultima 6 spin-off games, Savage Empire and Martian Dreams (which, by the way, are available for free to everyone who registers a GOG account).

Pix cautions that while the Ultima Patcher should work on clean installations of each game from GOG, installations that have been modified in any way already could cause strange results. The Patcher includes DPMI and other necessary files as well, so that the graphical upgrade patches for each game work properly.

As of 2022, Fenyx4 — one of the maintainers of the Codex of Ultima Wisdom — has taken over development on the Ultima Patcher.