Tag: lord british

A couple of weeks back, I ran across a nifty little project that played right into my college years and the programs that made me crazy about the Apple II series computers. Ultima IV Remastered! Of course, I am sure there were some things at the time that drove people crazy about the game but for this RPG player, it was just part of the novelty of running such a huge scale program on a machine that had a total…

  Lord British, A.K.A. Richard Garriott, has returned to the gaming scene with a new RPG entry. Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues is a combination online / offline game which looks to change the way that RPG games are looked at and played. Lord British is known in the realms of the Ultima world among others. Starting with his first game on the Apple ][ computer, Akalabeth, he soon became an overnight sensation with more than 30,000 copies of…

The November 2011 episode of Open Apple, the only co-hosted Apple II podcast, is now available! This month, Mike and I talk with Melissa Barron, the Apple II community’s famed tapestry artist. We three relate their experiences exploring the past and future of computer media at conventions and museums in Chicago and Rochester, exploring the methods used to create and preserve history. Further tributes are made to Steve Jobs, while Mike Westerfield reclassifies old BASIC tools and releases new ones….

Many eons ago, or maybe it just seems like that, a man named Lord British (A.K.A. Richard Garriott) released a software package to the world which forever changed the manner in which computers and games were thought of. That game from so long ago (actually 1978) was Akalabeth, the predecessor to the now famous Ultima series of adventure role playing games. Now, when it seemed safe to emerge from the darkness safe from the threat of attack by an Orc,…