Mermaid

Thank you, the pictures were fun to do! Thank you to everyone else as well for your kind comments! You're correct; the man with the canine head is Anubis. In 2600 BC he was still the most important Egyptian god of the dead and the afterlife. The woman with a fish crown on her head and an Atari CX10 joystick in her hand is the fish-goddess Hatmehit, a goddess of life and protection.

Glad you like the visuals and sound! I gave your 1k minigame a try, it doesn't play quite like Splorf, with the huge walls and the heavy helicopter it felt different to me. The version in the video is a preview, so the difficulty hasn't been tweaked yet. The C64 original works great as it is, and this is intended to be a 2600 port of that game. Adding levels, powerups, lives, etc. would make it a completely different game.

It's been fun to do graphics for the 2600 version - the music was a bigger challenge, even with Kylearan's great TIATracker v1.1.

The source code has been released now, maybe someone here could use it as a basis for an updated A8 version of Ultima IV? http://magervalp.github.io/2015/04/12/u4-remastered-on-github.html

Thank you. She does look a little bit like me, perhaps.

her work Thank you for your kind words

The ST/Amiga screens are not that great, and running them through a converter wouldn't make them any better. Two of the intro pictures from the FM Towns version were used as a basis for two of the new C64 pictures, and the interior of the gypsy's caravan was partly based on the Amiga/ST/EGA version. I'm sorry you don't like my colour choices.

I'm sorry that the new intro graphics aren't to your liking. You only have to look at them when creating a new character, though, so it could be worse!