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Another Long, Quiet Spell

Hi everyone.

So…I’ve been away from the site for a bit; between work and extracurricular activities, I’ve had vanishingly little time to visit the site, let alone post new content to it. I’ll work on that this week; there’s quite a backlog of articles that I have sitting in draft state in a folder in Quip, which I just need to upload and publish.

And then, of course, there’s more news beyond…

Announcing: Answers from Smith #Ultima #UDIC #QandA

This has been literal years in coming, but it makes sense to announce it now for two reasons. The first is that I have deactivated the forums here on the Codex; actually, I did so a month or so ago. And since nobody has asked about it, I’m taking that as an indication that there wasn’t much point in maintaining them. The second reason, though, has to do with the fact that I’ve implemented the…

Meet the man who runs the #OriginMuseum, collecting the history of #WingCommander and #Ultima | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

In the basement of an unassuming suburban home just outside Washington, D.C., you’ll find one of the largest collections of documents, data, images and props from Origin Systems, the company behind the Ultima and Wing Commander game series of the 80s and 90s. The Origin Museum is owned and curated by Joe Garrity, and has been running since 1999, when Garrity lived in Virginia. Over the past 18…

Well, It’s Been Rather Quiet Around Here

I suppose I should offer up a bit of an apology; apart from the (unfortunate) news of Helen Walker Garriott’s passing, I haven’t posted any news to the Ultima Codex for a few weeks. And while I’m grateful to Golem Dragon for his continued efforts to ensure that the Shroud of the Avatar weekly updates continue to be posted to the site, there are some people who have expressed…I’m going to use the…

#SSSHPodcast: Episode 39 - The Ageing Gamer

[full_width][/full_width] [full_width]http://www.podbean.com/media/player/dkzbz-5e3389?from=yiiadmin&skin=108&postId=6173577&download=1&share=1&fonts=Arial&auto=1[/full_width] [five_sixth]Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Android | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean[/five_sixth][one_sixth_last][sdm_download id=”59236″ fancy=”0″][/one_sixth_last] Let’s Face It — We’re Getting Older:…

[full_width][/full_width] Fair warning: I’m probably not going to be able to post much in the way of news over the next couple of weeks. Here’s the thing: I’ve only got a few hours a week (at most) that I can put toward updating the Codex, and for the next little while I need to shift my focus onto getting the artwork for the board games my Beaver Scouts came up with drawn up and finalized, so…

Layout Changes at the #Ultima Codex

[full_width][/full_width] You may have noticed that the Codex has a bit of a different look to it this morning (or, actually, as of yesterday). This is part of an effort to pare back the amount of stuff that’s displayed on any given page of the Codex, so that the main article content is more in focus. In particular, I made a point of reworking the sidebar content a bit, so that I could drop one…

In Spam Spam Spam Humbug’s tenth episode, I lamented that it was difficult — untenable, really — to continue to stay on top of keeping the Ultima Codex up to date. I don’t want to walk away from the site; far from it. I greatly enjoy the role it plays and am humbled by what it has become, as much as I am humbled whenever I hear from people that they find the site to be a valuable resource. And…