# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/pentagram-u8/pentagram>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/pentagram-u8/pentagram/blob/c87a67c42a9febc016a96e769dea0cf73d0202b1/README>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pentagram-u8/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pentagram-u8/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/pentagram-u8/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/pentagram-u8/pentagram/blob/c87a67c42a9febc016a96e769dea0cf73d0202b1/README>

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