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You may view the end game again, or view the sequence later by using Netscape to open the file: voidFrames.html in your "DarkCore/gameFiles" directory.

Congratulations! Thou hast completed Ultima: The Dark Core, the true conclusion of which shall only be known in the unveiling of Ultima IX: Ascension.

was conceived, written, and designed by Michael D. Hilborn.

Based on characters and events originally portrayed in the Ultima saga, a series of role-playing games created by Lord British, otherwise known as Richard Garriott.

Special thanks to The Dark Core Quality Assurance Team:

DeBray Bailey aka Lost Dragon

Edward Franks aka Fortran Dragon

Rob Davies aka Red Ferret Dragon

Melissa McCurley

Tom Joki Pixley

Mieke Schotting aka Earendil Dragon

Many thanks to the following folks and companies who unknowingly contributed to this project:

Midi Music & Original Inspiration Mysterious Sosaria, created by Telavar Dragon aka Holger Bachert.

Inspiration & Background Material World of Ultima, Year II
Excalibur Dragon aka Rich De Francesco, Jr.

True Type Fonts, Guardian Sound Effects Micro Dragon's Home Page

Background Material Underworld Dragon's Home Page

Developmental Software and Hardware The Rane Lab

More Developmental Software and Hardware BioMedia Center for Instructional Computing

3D Modeling and Rendering Macromedia Extreme 3D 1.0
Macromedia Extreme 3D 2.0

Image Processing and Editing Adobe Photoshop 4.0
Macromedia xRes 1.0

Sound Effects & Editing Macromedia SoundEdit 16

GIF Animation GifBuilder 0.5

HTML and Javascript Coding Microsoft WordPad

All original artwork, text, sound effects and code: Copyright © 1997 by Michael D. Hilborn with All Rights Reserved, but feel free to download and distribute my material, as long as you give me credit. If, for some odd reason, you wish to utilize this material for commercial puporses, you must contact me first.

Ultima, Britannia, and Origin are registered trademarks of ORIGIN Systems, Inc. Avatar is a trademark of ORIGIN Systems, Inc. Some of the artwork and all music are copyrighted by ORIGIN Systems, Inc., its creator, Richard "Lord British" Garriott, and the resepective authors.

This site is unaffiliated with ORIGIN Systems, Inc.

Many cuddly animals, a variety of marine organisms, and hundreds of species of plants were bereft of their lives and subsequently butchered during the making of Ultima: The Dark Core. My apologies, but I have to eat sometime...

Thank you for playing. Please send comments to Michael D. Hilborn