Pentagram
Produced by: Pentagram Team
Website: Pentagram @ Sourceforge
Legacy Releases:
The latest (circa 2018) standalone Windows build of Pentagram, the cross-platform Ultima 8 engine. For the latest version of Pentagram, download ScummVM for Windows.
The latest (circa 2018) standalone Mac OS build of Pentagram, the cross-platform Ultima 8 engine. For the latest version of Pentagram, download ScummVM for Mac OS.
Pentagram Map Viewer:
The Pentagram Viewer, a map viewer utility for Ultima 8. This was the predecessor of the Pentagram engine.
What initially began as a map viewer for Ultima 8 evolved into a full-on cross-platform engine remake in the spirit of Exult. The team behind Pentagram began with support for Ultima 8, which was fully playable in the engine by the time development on it ground to a halt. Partial support for the Crusader games — which were based on a fork of the Ultima 8 engine — was also added, though never completed.
Pentagram’s principal advantage in its day was that it ran very smoothly and without an intense CPU load, unlike when Ultima 8 was run under DOSBox.
As of April of 2020, Pentagram has been absorbed into ScummVM, and support for the Crusader games has improved significantly since then.
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