Retro gaming: Ultima IV

Ultima IV! On Linux!

One of my favourite games to play on my Apple IIe back in the day was Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. It’s been a long time since I played it, but thanks to xu4 (on Sourceforge), I can play it again. I’ve known about xu4 for a long time, but never bothered much with it until recently.

Getting it running on Fedora is as simple as installing the package with sudo dnf install xu4.

UltimaIV intro screen
UltimaIV intro screen
Out in the world
Out in the world
Shopping for supplies
Shopping for supplies

Plays just like it did on my Apple IIe. Ahh, memories.

Garage insulation followup

Finally getting into some consistently warm and more typical weather for this time of year. It’s not getting really hot  yet, but it’s hot enough to tell that the insulation I put in over the garage seems to be helping quite a bit to moderate the garage temperature.

Up in the attic space, I was measuring temperatures in the mid 30s (°C) while in the garage it was in the low 20s. Much more comfortable.

If the temperature difference stays around 10°C during the height of the summer heat, insulating the garage will have been totally worth the investment.