Underworld Adventures

2021-12-25 - New release: 0.10.0-pina-colada

This release is the first one in 17 years. It was mainly released to restore, refactor and improve the old code base that I stopped developing at around 2007. My main goal was to show what the project was like in the 0.9 release, and what the team accomplished at the time. So keep in mind that most gameplay elements are still not implemented yet. See the Features matrix for infos on what works and what doesn't.

This release contains several improvements and bug fixes:

• Refactored the whole code base to compile again and to use modern C++ language constructs
• Implemented displaying the current map when looking at the map object
• Reactivated displaying 3D models provided by Sam Matthews (servus)
• Objects and critters now use the hqx 4x scaler to improve image quality
• Binaries include the digital music pack, provided by Martin Shetty (QQtis)
• Improved decompiling conversation code
• No need to lowercase game files anymore
• Extended `uwdump` tool to recognize more file types
• Improved Underworld Debugger, including debugging Lua and conversation scripts
• Updated all external libraries, like SDL2, Lua, zlib, etc.
• New CMake based build system to help porting the project to other platforms
• Fixed rendering the 3D models, especially the shrine ankh
• Fixed picking up items and containers
• Many more small bugfixes

2019-02-02 - New project homepage

The Underworld Adventures project has a new homepage! I moved the source code and the web pages from the obsolete CVS hosting on SourceForge over to GitHub. This is now the official home page URL: https://vividos.github.io/UnderworldAdventures.

I might work on the source code a bit, porting it over to Visual Studio 2017, cleaning up the code and update the "Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 Formats Specification" (uw-formats.txt). Don't expect that the project is revived, though!