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U8 Gallery and Cleanup

3rd September 2026 by Dino

The Ultima 8 Guide is well over 20 years old and has outlived several of the websites it has linked to for a long time, meaning it is riddled with broken links. It has been long overdue a cleanup, and at the same time I took the opportunity to recover some resources from websites that disappeared. The Ultima 8 Guide is quite big so this work is ongoing. Over the past couple of days, I have done the following:

• Added a new Ultima 8 Gallery page. This contains screenshots recovered from GameSpot: The Ultima Legacy (with thanks to Cear Dragon) as well as The World of Ultima. What used to be the Pictures section from the U8 Guide's main page has also moved here; several links in this section have also been updated or removed.
• gibberishh had contributed an Ultima 8 walkthrough and annotated maps back in 2023; and sometime later started the website Classic Games Revisited and hosted them there too. I've added links to Classic Games Revisited in the appropriate pages.
• In the U8 Guide's main page:
  • In the Music section, I've added a link to OGG music at Rabbit's Lair, and I'm now also hosting the MIDI music in lieu of a broken link to World of Ultima.
  • Updated all links to The Ultima Codex to use HTTPS.
  • Fixed a broken link to Mobygames' description of Ultima 8.
  • The Pictures section's contents have moved to the new Ultima 8 Gallery page so it now links to that page instead.
• In the U8 Maps & Places page, updated all links to Pagan - The Beautiful to Wayback Machine equivalents since this site has also disappeared from the web and that page had loads of links pointing to it that were broken.
• Added an entry for Rabbit's Lair in the WebDB2.

That's all for now, but I have more in the pipeline so stay tuned!

The CRPG Addict Is Playing Ultima 8: Pagan

29th August 2026 by Dino

The CRPG Addict is currently playing through games published in 1994, and a couple of weeks ago started playing Ultima 8: Pagan. There are currently four entries published about this game, with more to follow as he makes further progress.

As a result, I've added links to his Ultima 8 posts so far to the Playthroughs section of the Ultima 8 Walkthrough page. I also added a link to his "Pagan: The Books of Pagan" post to the U8 Writings page.

Ultima 8 Music: Orchestral Re-Arrangement

28th August 2026 by Dino

Ultima fandom remains divided to this day on whether Ultima 8 is a good game; however, most will agree that its music score, originally composed by Nenad Vugrinec, is excellent.

Earlier this month, Dustin Naegel from Germany has completed an orchestral rearrangement of Ultima 8 music. There are also a few videos on YouTube:

• "Carthax Lake" (from Ultima VIII: Pagan) - Orchestral Re-Arrangement
• "Britannia Burns" (Endgame Music from Ultima VIII: Pagan) - Orchestral Re-Arrangement
• "The Catacombs" (from Ultima VIII: Pagan) - Orchestral Re-Arrangement

I've added these to the Music section of the Ultima 8 Guide for future reference.

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