The CD-contents were the same as in all other editions. The compilation also was part of a bundle released by Electronic Arts in 1995 called “ 10 for $10 Pak”. The European edition actually contains the PDFs in English, German and French. The PDFs are notorious for their bad quality, with many illustrations completely pixelated and unrecognizable and the maps stored at low resolution in black-and-white. The documentation and maps were stored as PDF files on CD. The European release had a limited special edition with the higher quality Ultima VII cloth map from the United States, but otherwise it was identical to the 1994 US edition, with all of the books being in their European version.Įven later, the compilation was released as a bare CD-only version in a small box, or even just a jewel case in Europe. At least the Book of Fellowship is a reprint in the 1994 release, easily noticeable by the different font on the cover and the fact that many of the illustrations are either not correctly framed or are zoomed-in. The release from 1994 in the final box replaced the cloth maps with paper ones and the games now were on one CD and could only be installed with the respective expansions included. This release still carried everything on the original floppy disks – 15 in total – therefore it was possible to play the games without installing the expansions as well.

The very first edition from 1993 was sold in Serpent Isle boxes marked with a sticker, and contained The Book of Fellowship, A Guide to the Isle of Fire, Beyond the Serpent Pillars, The Silver Seed Play Guide and both cloth maps.

Ultima online cloth map