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Ultima VIII: Pagan

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Ultima VIII: Pagan
Ultima VIII: Pagan cover
Developers
Origin Systems
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS March 15, 1994
Windows (DOSBox) April 19, 2012[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) April 23, 2013[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Ultima
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Ultima VIII: Pagan is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RPG game in the Ultima series.

General information

Can be run under ScummVM.[3]
The Codex of Ultima Wisdom - A huge wiki for the series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Floppies or CD-ROM.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Gold Edition. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin
Origin
Gold Edition. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Not available in some regions.
Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Speech Pack Included in all Gold Edition releases (both retail and digital).
DOS
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Version differences

The Gold Edition is a complete edition which includes the Speech Pack add-on.

Essential improvements

Patches

The v2.12 Patch fixes various issues with the English, German and French floppy versions of the game. CD-ROM and digital versions are already patched.

Pentagram

Pentagram allows running the game at higher resolutions and has other enhancements.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\U8.INI
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
U8.INI contains installation settings; in-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared.
Pentagram settings are in pentagram.ini, located in %APPDATA%\Pentagram\ on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/Pentagram/ on OS X or ~/.pentagram/ on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME\
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
SGHEADER.DAT contains save game names.
Pentagram saves are in %APPDATA%\Pentagram\u8-save on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/Pentagram/u8-save/ on OS X or ~/.pentagram/u8-save/ on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Widescreen resolution

Set Pentagram resolution[5]
  1. Install Pentagram.
  2. Run Pentagram once to generate the necessary files.
  3. Go to the Pentagram game data folder.
  4. Open pentagram.ini.
  5. Set width and height to the actual output resolution.
  6. Set scalex and scaley to the resolution to scale from (e.g. half of the output resolution).
  7. Save the changes.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Most dialogue is text-only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

The Italian, Chinese, Korean and Polish retail versions only have the manuals translated, not the game itself.[6][7][8][9]
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Japanese
Japanese retail only. Speech is in English.[10]
Spanish
Spanish retail only. Fan translation bugfixed for english version by Clan Dlan (author: L@Zar0), download.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 386DX 33 MHz
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 45 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

References