If you were following Paul Barnett's Twitter feed yesterday and today, you'll have noticed some exceedingly exciting news. Granted, it's nothing to do directly with Ultima, but I would direct the good reader who hasn't already heard that Mythic Entertainment and the folks behind DOSBox have been talking to get themselves up to speed on the matter. (Yours truly has played a small role in it.)

It started yesterday with this heady news:

I missed Wing Commander's 20th birthday?

Which was followed a while later by a call to arms of sorts:

If you're on Twitter, do this!

And hear this, ye Dragons and Dragonettes; if you have a Twitter account, click the link above and retweet this message! I'll explain why shortly.

Moving on, the news this morning was even more incredible:

This is promising...

Followed shortly thereafter by:

...and here's hoping this gets passed!

Now, what does all this mean?

Well, on the face of it, it means that Mythic is working hard to get a DOSboxed version of Wing Commander built and (now) approved by EA's legal department.

But as I said above, any Dragon or Dragonette with a Twitter account should immediately retweet the tweet by Paul Barnett I indicated above, because it goes to demonstrate that Ultima fans are every bit as hot to trot, every bit as keen on a re-release of the series, as are Wing Commander fans for their favourite Origin Systems title(s).

If Mythic can get a Wing Commander game DOSboxed and pushed out onto Steam, Impulse, or Good Old Games, that puts them in a very good position to do the same with any or all of the Ultima titles. Even Savage Empire and Martian Dreams.