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Darkstar

Wow, I sure would like to see Ultima 7 in all this black&white glory. It would probably look like one of those old A-HA music videos

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Obviously you've never really tried to play lots of old games using VirtualBox/VMware ;-) The advantages of DOSbox are: - Portable (i.e. not x86-only, as VirtualBox etc. are) - optionally emulates a slow/restricted computer (i.e. 66MHz 486 without SSE for example) - emulates CGA, EGA, AdLib, Gravis ...

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Works fine here (just checked). Probably your drivers. Try setting the environment variable "SDL_VIDEODRIVER" to "windib" before starting Exult, this fixed some issues for me in the past (though it is probably slower). Or try lowering the hardware acceleration of your graphics ca...

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If you redo the moongate anyway, why not add a bit more "features" to it? Like making it a bit jiggly, or add sparks or something. It really looks like an animated vertical table (or an LED display wall

right now *g*

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There's a command line option to dump the whole map into a (huge) png file. You could create a new map within exult studio, fill it with all the chunks (without adding anything else onto them) and then launch exult with the comman dline parameter to save the map as png.

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Heh, I recently found a very old snapshot of exult on one of my archive CDs... I think it was one of the first releases. Couldn't compile it, though. Maybe I'll try again this weekend, just for the nostalgia :) Oh, and here's a little bit of trivia: Does anyone remember what the "Guardian Engin...

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Hi, I recently found some floppy disks containing lots of XMI's from various old games, including corresponding sample.ad (or similar) files. I still have an old DOS-based playback tool I wrote back then, which uses the Miles libraries to play these XMI files. However, since it's DOS based (and tied...

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An Interplay LotR remake is in progress. It is linked here:

http://rewiki.regengedanken.de/wiki/Lin ... mentations

(or, if you prefer the direct link, it's this one: http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~benes/lotr/ )

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I don't know exactly what you mean by "hard" reverse-engineering, but I'm pretty sure that -- provided you do not circumvent any copy protection schemes -- reverse-engineering is legal. At least in the country where I live (and where the server resides). However, IANAL, so don't take my wo...

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Hi! I was recently thinking about creating some kind of centralized Wiki for game file reverse engineering stuff. It would be a good place for people to post their findings about game data files so that others might pick up the work and don't have to start from scratch. I, for example, already have ...

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wjp is right, the files are just standard ZIP archives which only need to be copied together again. I did this once to get the data without "installing" the game. An easier option would probably be to make sure the disks have the correct volume label. IIRC they must be labeled "SIDISK...

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How to get an account on the Wiki? Or is it anonymous-only? I wanted to start something similar myself, but with focus on the Ultima series itself (and with a different Wiki engine, MediaWiki). I imagined something like the Ultimate Encyclopedia for Ultima, with info on places, dates, NPCs, events, ...

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IIRC for SI, you can safely delete the *.XMI, *.OFX and *.DLL files from STATIC/ as they were only used for the OriginFX screensaver. I could be wrong, though, so better back them up. XMIDI.{AD,MT} might also be unneeded. However, this will give you only a few kb's more (maybe 100kb) so I don't know...

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What do you mean you tried to install it and it does not work? Is one of the disks bad? Or does the Install program give an error? You could try to unpack the files from your disks manually (they're simply split zip-files) Anyway, as Dom already mentioned, don't ask for warez here on the forum. Obvi...

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If you have Windows 9x you could try native DOS mode.

For Win2k/XP, try VDMSound (http://ntvdm.cjb.net/)

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> It goes on the same IDE chain as the 3.5'' floppy.

I wouldn't recommend connecting a floppy to an IDE cable

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/me thinks so too

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Hi! Just played a bit with Unreal II. The first time you're on board the Atlantis, look around the ship and open all panels/hatches on the floor. Under one of them is a Seagoat that you can talk to. You can ask him about "Spam", "Spam", "Spam" and finally "Humbug&q...

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Oops, seems that was a problem on my side

hehe, next time I'll read the D/L page more carefully...

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I just tried to install exult on a friend's computer and noticed that SDL_mixer is missing from the snapshot installer. Maybe someone should put it in?

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I was just wondering what's the difference between the "jmsfx" and the "drbgsfx" sound packs. I downloaded drbgsfx some time ago and just noticed that it isn't available (anymore?) on the download page.
Which sound pack is better? Or should I use the MT-32 version?

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Use the scaling option in the config file. It should be possible to set up a scale factor of x3 or x4...

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Reutlingen, Germany

Played Ultima 6 - 9, finished only TBG and SI

Darkstar

Could you make the sticky/frozen patches available somewhere for download?

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Hi, It's quite easy to unpack the data files manually. If you have experience with the command line, that is ;-) Well, the data files (SIDISK23 or similar) are actually zip-files split up so that they fit on floppy disks. The two numbers (2 and 3 in the above example) tell which part of which zip fi...

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You need to press the shift-key to type numbers on a french keyboard????

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back to the rendering problem: I noticed something similar in the black gate, in my case it was with the horse in the stables of trinsic. the horse has dirt on it's back :) http://mw24.ods.org/~michael/Bildschirmphoto2.jpg it's a bit hard to spot in the image but I think you get the idea. There's an...

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Well, I don't know how big a full PNG Image would be (never tried it due to memory constraints :-), but the Photoshop Images (27000x27000 pixels) are between 400 and 600 mb... And even on a 2x2 meters poster, there would be over 10 pixels per millimeter... I already thought about it, but to get a pe...

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Another Idea: How about the ability to set up a larger black (or grayed out) "desktop" area where you can put gumps that you want to stay open? The Game window area would be in the upper left corner (for example) and to the right and at the bottom would be enough room to place the inventor...

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Oh My God we're all doomed!! Microsoft has come to grab exult!! What are you up to, Hebrew Dragon?? Exult .NET?
*eg*

--Michael

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Maybe you should consider _buying_ the game

--Michael

Darkstar

Yes, there exists a german version of TBG, but AFAIK Serpent Isle was never released in german.

--Michael

Darkstar

Hi,

what exactly do I need to change in the registry for MSVC to recognize .cc files?

--Michael

Darkstar

Hi,
Nadir, I really meant no offense when I said no one cares...

If you want to I could try to help you with localized versions. If you tell me what files are needed for TBG I could send them to you.
I think it should be:
usecode
linkdep1
linkdep2
maybe the .EXE file(s)?

Greetings,
--Michael

Darkstar

Try using GetRight or Go!zilla as a download manager (or wget or curl on Linux)

--Michael

Darkstar

I just thought about this:
What if they call their lawyers and make you rename Exult because they now have a copyright on that name? Would it be possible for them to do that? I fear so, but maybe they don't (yet) know about this project...

--Michael

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Hi!

look what I just found in a german magazine (no fake!)
http://mw24.ods.org/~michael/exult-naomi.jpg
(sorry for the bad colors [colours? *g*] but my cheapo-scanner sucks)

--Michael

Darkstar

That's the same with the german version of TBG. I mentioned that aome time ago but the last time I checked the problem was still there

no one cares about non-english users I fear

--Michael

Darkstar

Hey, that would be a nice idea. The UO engine is very customizable, actually I think this would be quite possible, although you would have to re-design the levels from scratch. Or you could write a converter, which would solve the copyright problems that arise when you re-design the levels and sprea...

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I found this link on Slashdot:

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/ ... index.html

Have a look at it.

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I had the same problem once when I tried to compile exult with gcc3. It won't work (at least for me, it didn't).
gcc3 compiled c++ programs are terribly slow anyway so don't use it (yet

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The best thing is that this frog-penguin looks like Bill G. himself *g*

--Michael

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Well I merely wanted to point out that the original font can't be _so_ bad that the font in the image would be an improvement ;-) I ocassionally have trouble reading the original font, too, but I would never want to replace it with *that*... And since you'll be making it an optional feature, I guess...

Darkstar

I mean no offense but IMHO this screenshot up there looks like crap

Or like C64 graphics.
Compromise:
Make an option of creating an alpha-blended text window where the background will be darker (or lighter) behind the text making it easier to read.

--Michael

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