Case study

Pentagram: reimplementing the Ultima 8 engine

Pentagram reimplements the Ultima 8 engine. The documentation dated 9 November 2011 says the supported games are the English versions of Ultima 8, both before and after the patch. German, French, and Spanish versions are listed as less tested.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 51
Last commit: 2025-07-29
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-2.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Build dependencies named in the README are SDL, SDL_ttf, zlib, and libpng. On Linux, run ./bootstrap, ./configure, and make. The Windows section says nothing is written there yet.
The README names no license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{pentagram-u8,
  title = {{Pentagram: reimplementing the Ultima 8 engine}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/pentagram-u8/pentagram}},
  url = {https://github.com/pentagram-u8/pentagram},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/pentagram-u8/}}
}

Plain text

Pentagram: reimplementing the Ultima 8 engine. https://github.com/pentagram-u8/pentagram (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/pentagram-u8/

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Primary sources

README GitHub · pentagram-u8/pentagram · Revision c87a67c