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I've committed a few changes. Made it so smooth scrolling is no longe just an on/off switch. It's now a percentage value that will control how much time is spent smoothly scrolling during a move and how much time is spent 'still'. I set the default now to 75%. Combat problems should now be fixed. I'...

I'll fix the stuff up at some point. I'll also add in some options to add 'partial' smooth scrolling so it's wont seem quite like the avatar is walking on ice.

/me looks around and whistles nonchalantly and then casually mentions something along the lines of want smooth scrolling... download the next snapshot...

Yes it could, but not too well. Diagonal movement of the viewpoint will cause problems because not all the tiles you'll need will have been rendered. Pure horizontal or vertical movement will be ok. However, there is a slight catch, the simplest way will only cause the screen scrolling to be smooth,...

I'll give my input here. Exults method of doing event timing makes it very hard to do syncronization in the game itself. Just look at how may times syncronized animated shapes have been broken and then fixed. Exult is also very susceptable to differences in machine speed. It doesn't attempt to keep ...

I'd suggest a 1.4 version because 1.2 is kind of old and has problems. I have a Mac for work purposes but I don't use it particularly often.

Can you please submit a source patch to the Patch Tracker http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_i ... tid=302335 so the changes you've made can be put into the source.

I'll see if I can get some official binaries compiled and put on the Download page under snaphots

This is an old bug that's been fixed hasn't it? I think turning off the music will fix the problem. 1.2 is really old, a 1.4 snapshot is really really needed for the Mac.

For a system running off of a 'ROM' cart, you should be able to modify exult to work with memory mapped files, rather than loading loading them into memory from the ROM. It would reduce the memory requirements, a lot. Things would be quite different to the way the PSP version works. Not sure if it'd...

I'm impressed, sounds like you would have done a lot a work. I hope our code did cause 'too' much trouble. Our memory usage is... quite a bit higher than the orignals that managed to do everything in 2MB.

I've added an addition to the first post on this thread about it.

-Colourless Dragon

It should be fairly trivial to replicate the effect using Pixel/Fragment shaders.

Would be great to have some photos of it running on devices for the screenshot page too!

This is an old mockup I did for an On Screen Keyboard for Exult

It fits in 320x40 as you'd want. There were a number of technical issues in implementing it (still are probably), which is why I never did it.

Ah you're probably right there. The exult menu is likely forcing startup to 320x240 for compatiblity reasons. I don't think there will be a way of doing it differently for now without code changes.

If you edit the config file you will probably be able to set it to use 240x240 so the problem probably isn't fatal, but some parts of Exult may not work to well with the screen resolution being smaller than normal. The Save Game gump is 320x200 and will go off the edges of the screen. The original s...

PocketPCs don't have a concept of current directory if I remember. I think what I did was setup exult to grab the path of the executable and use that directory as the base for working out relative paths. Use the GetModuleFileName() Win32 function with the first argument set to NULL to get the path. ...

When I was doing it i made Exult look for a Exult.cfg.txt file so the file could be edited on the device itself easily.

I have to say great work

Things very much seem to have improved since I last attempted a PocketPC port.

It 'used' to compile and I did commit the changes. But, that was a long time ago so things will probably be broken now. If you have Visual Studio 2005 there shouldn't be any general problems compiling assuming the ARM compiler in VS2005 supports all the language features used. I'd advise starting fr...

As Exult is directly using X11 itself when compiling in with ExultStudio support, shouldn't configure be adding the X11 compiler args itself, and not rely on the SDL compiler args to add in X11. Of course if X11 isn't found, ExultStudio support should be disabled, to hopefully stop these problems.

There is really two ways of multithreading pathfinding. One is a bit easier than than the other. You could just do normal pathfinding but using more than one thread to calculate it. If doing A* you would have more than one thread popping off nodes to check at a time. Implementing this in the context...

Hmm.. the reason why the white pixels are too visable is because the rest of the roof is too dark. Gamma correct filtering would probably fix that problem.

I tried Hq2x in Pentagram and the results were very disappointing. For the most part it was good, but it really really broke badly when doing the fine cross faded palette adjustments when you were under the effects of shrooms. There was really bad temporal artefacting. Even when standing still the l...

The Exult team did not make the OGG files ourselves. They were made by someone else (Simon Quinn) for us to use. As far as I know, they were extracted then played back with the SysEx data from the games. Now, for BG everything is good, though I'm pretty sure that the SI tracks are not actually 100% ...

Ultima 6's music was designed to be played via an Adlib sound card. MT32 support was added 'late' and converted the Adlib music to use MT32 instruments and output the notes to the MT32 using something that can be described as a hack. Strictly speaking, the music played via an Adlib (or AdPlug) is ho...

Trying to fit UW1 into the normal Ultima games is almost pointless. It was never meant to be an Ultima game and consequently it's story line doesn't make all that much sense fitting into the rest of the series.

As an optional feature being a little CPU intensive shouldn't matter a great deal. Exult doesn't have smooth scrolling, etc, so a frame rate hit may not be noticed. That said, the U7 dataset will make things difficult to implement line of sight. Unlike the other games, U7 is a 3D world where height ...

But if everyone left the internet... there would be no spam anymore...

such a paradox.

Hmm.. no workies in vista? I'll check it out.

If you were going to make thing 32bit, it would probably be best to as mentioned about to keep palettes per shape. For lighting conditions I'd do modulation of the frame buffer to make things darker/filter colours. If you are going 32bit, might as well use it to improve things at the same time, incl...

Ultima VII is an oddity, because it didnt come with a Licesnse agreement explicitly stating it was forbidden to reverse engineer the title, which is the only real dubious part of what we've done. There is also strange interoperability clauses in copyright legislation, but I wouldn't know where to be...

There is only one real effect that couldn't readibly be emulated and that's passing LFB writes through the pixel pipe. I don't think this feature was used very often, but it's a feature thats very unique to Voodoos. Other 'hard' things are Paletted Textures and Chroma keying. Both of those were used...

/me looks at the Vista x64 DVD sitting beside his computer...

I don't have Vista x64 installed, but my driver should work in Vista.

Ok. I found and fixed the problem (as well as some others).

Since I'm now satisified the changes are stable, i've committed them to cvs.

I've uploaded a new one with a slight change. I had IO non blocking on recv but that is going to cause problems because exult only calls recv when it knows there should be a packet and if it doesn't block the recv call can return an error that Exult wont handled, so I've changed it so recv will now ...

And i think I'm done. If anyone wants to test it out, here is a new servewin32.cc file that replaces the pipes and mailslots and instead uses Sockets. You'll need to compile your version of exult and exult studio replacing the file in the server directory with this one. You'll also need to link to t...

WinSock of course isn't 100% compatible with Berkeley Sockets so while much of the code can be reused, its probably just easier if I rewrote the Win32 only with it using a socket port bound to loopback only. The mailslot stuff is a hack, and I kind of regret writing it now (it worked in testing but ...

I probably should update it to use TCP/IP.

I think the Chaos Hierophants in the burned out building 'bug' is something that has been worked around in Exult... I think... which means you can't talk to them anymore

I could be wrong though. Please correct me if I am.

I don't think there currently is an option to always show the Subtitles in the SI intro but there probably should be, if not for translations, then for the hearing impared.

Higher than 2x is the limitation of the scalers. However the point scalers support manually editing the config and setting the scaling value to 3 or higher.

Conceptually you could consider it to be layers, and in many ways pentagram treats it as layers too, but in practice we've not strictly implemented like that. Gumps in Pentagram are a fairly complete UI system and it's implemented as a tree. We just do one call to the DesktopGump to paint and it cal...

In Pentagram we render everything using Gumps, even the game world. We have a special 'scaling gump' that applies a scaler to the rendered results of all it's child gumps. We can then render more gumps on top of that. Of course there is some trickery involved in order to get the draw order correct w...

It can be done, but whether it would be easy to do it with Exult is a different matter. Of course it would still require a 'bigger font' In Pentagram when I wrote the renderer for it I added in specific support for allowing us to draw 'High Resoultion' shapes and bitmaps ontop of the upscaled game w...

Pentagram already has it's own integrated Menu system in it that's already used for Game/Language/Version selection for U8 as well as the Crusader Games. Would kind of be redundant to attempt to integrate that with Exult stuff into a seperate program. Pentagram Menu: http://www.users.on.net/~triforc...

Remember kids, don't do drugs!

Not all that much point looking at IP addresses. They are all 'random' pretty much indicating a Zombie network.

Actually the Menu should show mods that are incompatible, but tell the user that they are incompatible. If the menu didn't show incompatible mods, the users wouldn't know that:
1) they had installed the mod correctly
and
2) that the mod is incompatible.

You can only run fast enough in Exult. Last thing I knew, changing the 'FPS' setting in the options is what allows you to either reach it or not reach it.

I've got a 5.25" in a machine just so I could get games off of old disks. Of course that machine is about 200 km away from me setup as a linux gateway, but if the need arises I can still use it to read old dos disks.

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