Tag: Ultima Style

The Nox Archaist team announced has announced their new expansion pack for Now Archaist, Lord of Storms. According to their website, You have learned of Lord Estintar’s suspicions that the cult has something to do with the increase in storm activity. He charges you with investigating. The task will not be easy, but you accept this duty. Your quest will take you to uncharted reaches of the Isles of Wynmar. Traps, puzzles, and powerful magic items await, which may or…

Daniel Gordon has released the latest rendition of his RPG game, Realm for the Apple II. Realm Version 1.4.0 includes the addition of weapons proficiencies by class, a foe status display, arrow selection, performance improvements, better input handlers and display formatting, and additional magic items and weapons. Realm works under both DOS 3.3 as well as ProDOS on the Apple II series computer and comes on four floppy disk images or on a single 3.5 inch floppy disk image. The…

For those of you who have been following Daniel Gordon’s Realm release, there is a new version of Realm: Rays of Nightmare available for both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS. According to the release notes accompanying the release, “This release provides automatic combat resolution, some new potions, and support for the ProDOS RAM disk. It adds interface improvements, balancing, and a little different Iron Tower magic. The RAM disk works on emulators, but testing on real hardware is still pending.” In…

A.P.P.L.E. Member, Dan Gordon, has released a new Apple II game. Recovered from old hard drives, REALM – Rays of Nightmare is an Ultima style RPG game, originally written more than 30 years ago and has been re-worked for the modern day emulators. From the Manual: “In your wanderings, you come upon a lone orc, apparently under some kindly enchantment. He presents you with a note from his lord: “I am Xavier Francis, eighteenth Baron Lemphocym. I faithfully serve the…