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30 years ago Origin released Ultima VII - The Black Gate and many still hold this game in a very high regard. We certainly do!
Instead of waiting another decade this is the perfect opportunity to release our next version. Because of the measures we took to eliminate weird crashes it was important to make a new release available.
By default we will now play the extended intro of Serpent Isle, that we restored from an old recording of it. It was cut and slimmed down for the release of Ultima VII's Part 2 to conserve precious floppy disk space. A shout out to Denis Loubet for creating this masterpiece.
Two important things were always missing from Exult in regards to the Black Gate:
The sound effects in the intro and the congratulations screen! Both are now present!
Currently we are in the process of merging Ken Cecka's fork of Exult for Android. While this is not yet finished, Ken created a 1.8 version based on our release code.
You can find the Android, Windows and macOS releases on our download page.
Please play with it and tell us of any problem you encounter using the forum or bug tracker.... read more

After two years of development, we are pleased to Version 1.2 of Exult, the multi-platform engine for playing the classic game Ultima 7. This release contains many bug fixes and gameplay enhancements.

Changes include:

1. Party formation like the original U7.
2. Support for arrow/keypad walking/running.
3. OGG Vorbis music system.
4. Improvements to NPC schedules.
5. Additional paperdoll art.
6. "Scale2X" scaler from Andrea Mazzoleni.
7. Improved combat with pausing, hit display, and targeting.
8. Port to the Zaurus.
9. ExultStudio improvements, including porting to GTK+2.

Exult is a complete game engine for running Ultima 7 on a variety of operating systems, and also includes ExultStudio, allowing you to make your own mods or even completely new games. This release includes many bug fixes and usability enhancements, including combat improvements, OGG Vorbis support, additional artwork, party-formation, and the port to the Zaurus. In addition, ExultStudio has been upgraded to use GTK-2.x, and has had many bugs fixed.

After four years of work by more than a dozen developers, and with help from hundreds of users, Exult, the engine that lets you play the classic game Ultima 7 on almost any modern computer, is having its official 1.00 release.

With another round of bug fixing, we have release Exult RC2, hopefully our last evaluation release before 1.00.

After several weeks of Beta testing and bug fixes, we have provided our first Release Candidate for 1.00. We have fixed a large number of bugs since Beta1, and, assuming no new major bugs are found, hope to release 1.00 with few additional changes.

Finally... after about three years, Exult has gone Beta. This milestone means that both parts of Ultima 7, 'Black Gate' and 'Serpent Isle', are playable in their entirety. We'll continue fixing bugs with a 1.00 release as a near-term goal, and will also be working on ExultStudio, which will allow users to create their own games someday.

Many improvements, including a new real-time stats display, MIDI support in MacOS ports, near-perfect dungeon rendering, and a huge number of bug fixes, to the point where Serpent Isle is playable up to the release of the Banes.

Exult Alpha 4 is now available, with many enhancements.

* Sepernt Isle Jawbone, Combat Stats, and keyring have been implemented.
* New savegame interface with multiple savegames!
* Digital SFX's have replaced the old Midi SFX.
* Many bugs fixed.

Many bug fixes, new NPC cheat screen, and new 'paperdoll' artwork for SI-style inventory display in Black Gate.

The second alpha is available. Improvements include dynamic user-defined key bindings, paperdolls in Serpent Isle and Black Gate, and many bug fixes.

We've released our first Alpha, which should allow users to play through the entire 'Ultima7 - Black Gate' game.

Release 0.40, with the full introduction screen implemented and greatly improved gameplay, is now available.

We've just release v0.35 of Exult, our multi-platform Ultima7 game engine, with first support for combat.

The latest version of Exult, the Ultima7 game engine, is now available at exult.sourceforge.net, with save/load support, improved animations, and more NPC schedules.