I can hardly contain my glee!  Team Archon has been working very very hard on a remake of Ultima VI, called the Ultima 6 Project , using the Dungeon Siege engine.  Beta 3 was released a couple of weeks ago now, and I'm absolutely loving it! 

I have been watching the Ultima 6 project for a long long time... years now, and I was going to wait until the final release before I started playing this, but when Beta 2 was released, I just couldn't wait any longer. Now Beta 3 has been released, and it looks like the final release could be coming soon.  They're still working a few bugs out of the system, but it looks very good so far.

For anyone who's actually playing it now, I've created a couple of things for my own use, which I thought I would share.  One is a Spell Checklist to keep track of your spells, and which spells are sold by which vendor, and the other is a mod to highlight reagents growing in the wild.  Both are available in the Downloads section.