The Download is already available on my project site on Aiera.

Comparison screenshots, which illustrates some of the changes that have been made, will be available here within the next week.

Features:
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* More than 150 new designed Textures (Terrain, Foliage, LB Castle, Walls), most of them in higher resolutions than the original ones.
* More than 15.000 objects added (Flowers, Grass and other plants, Butterflies, most of them around yew) to the original release from 1999.
* Contains the latest version of U9BB.EXE (supports more than one fogless overworlds, those overworlds will be implemented in future releases)

NOTES:
From now on U9BB.exe can be created by using U9PatcherEXE.exe (separate installer), please look into U9BB-readme.txt for details.
Terrain textures are not completely finished yet, please excuse the disburbing effects because of missing transistions.

Quick Install instructions:
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* Unzip the Release into your Ultima IX install directory (where u9.exe is located, otherwise the Installer will not work)
* Now you have a new directory within your Ultima IX install directory, named BB, with a Subdir named BB2011R3, further the Installer called BB2011R3.cmd

* To the next please run BB2011R3.cmd
* At the first start the Installer creates a Backup of the original files in the BACKUP Subdir of the BB2011R3 directory.
* Enter 1 for installing the BB2011R3 (Enter 2 for restoring the previous installation)
* Now please start a new the game using U9BB.EXE (fogless overworld) or standard U9.EXE (overworld with distance fogging).
* BB2011R3 will further work every early savegames from the earth map or stonegate.

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While doing some trigger-related research I had to find out, that there was quite some content within the earth map hidden by the developers.
So I've created a copy of the earth map, where all this content is visible and useable now, and integrated the map into the main game after that.

Now this special map can be acccessed by entering "Castle Prison" after speaking with Lord British at the Beginning of the game.
The Back Teleporter now leads to this Earth Map, from there you can return to the front of LB Castle or try out one of the following:

o Teleporters to positions all over Britannia (Best to use with my "Freedom Mod" preinstalled, so that you can walk back to Britain then)
o Teleporters, which changes the complete armor set you wear
o Collect all the Armor and Weapons, which had become visible now
o Bake your own Bread within Avatar's House

The download is available on my project site on Aiera.

Quick Install instructions:
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Just as for "Beautiful Britannia" I use a simple batch file as Installer, so it will be working on any system,
starting from Windows 98 up to Windows 7, and on x32 and x64 systems.

* Unzip the Release into your Ultima IX install directory (where u9.exe is located, otherwise the Installer will not work)
* Now you have a new directory within your Ultima IX install directory, named BB, with a Subdir named BBMini01, further the Installer called BBMini01.cmd

* To the next please run BBMini01.cmd
* At the first start the Installer creates a Backup of the original files in the BACKUP Subdir of the BBMini01 directory.
* Enter 1 for installing the BBMini01 (Enter 2 for restoring the previous installation)
* The Mod works not only with new games but also with every existing savegame!

Firstknight

Finally I can present the first impressions of the new "Britain House" Textures reworked by Viriathus.

Here are two screens, which shows clear improvements in comparison to existing textures, especially when looking at them from close to.

The new textures will be included in the upcoming "Beautiful Britannia 2012 R1", which is scheduled for Q2/2012. Means, that two Releases are planned for 2012, which will still have a strong focus on retexturing.

Larger content upgrades (cove for example) will take some time are therefore not to be expected before 2013. However, my work on this cove upgrade has already started, and fresh screens of early development builds can be awaited even with in this year.

Firstknight

With help of my Friends Iceblade and Hawkwind I'm finally able to provide U9BB.EXE as a patch to U9.EXE 1.19f.

Future release of U9BB.EXE will be provided in the same way.

Install Instructions:
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Simply unzip the package into your Ultima IX install directory so that U9PatcherEXE.exe is located within the same directory as U9.EXE then.
Now start U9PatcherEXE.exe (provided by Hawkwind from Team Forogttenworld), which will update your existing U9.EXE in the progress.

After that start U9.EXE...

...and believe!  

The modified EXE works with any savegame of every version of Ultima IX or Beautiful Britannia.

More site updates with the latest news related to Beautiful Britannia 2012 coming soon...

Firstknight