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MeddlingMonk

Don't know if anyone has cracked the speech file, but some years ago some people figured out that there are a lot of files for terrain, items, etc. that aren't a part of the final game. In some cases they're test maps. Some are early, incomplete versions of the final surface map. Others are what wou...

MeddlingMonk

Yeah, it was working before make install. And the path was the same including the case (when I build a new snapshot I just copy the music and sfx files from one data folder to the other), just not specified in exult.cfg before I had done make install (although, again, specifying data and data/music ...

MeddlingMonk

Dominus, that's definitely where it is on my Mac. Syndicate, maybe it really only needs the static folder. Me, I'm lazy. I just drag the whole game folder onto the hard drive. Anyway, it makes everything handy if I ever want to bang my head against DOSBox again any time soon (the day I get that to p...

MeddlingMonk

Well, that worked but I had to go into /content/sifixes/src rather than just /content/sifixes. Also ran into something a little unexpected in that after doing make install the digital audio wouldn't play until I added paths to data and data/music to exult.cfg.

MeddlingMonk

The typo is in my post.

I'll give it a try.

MeddlingMonk

Apparently not. I do all right usually if I've got reasonably complete directions (or informative-enough errors as when I was trying to get Exult just plain built in OS X) but this is looking like a case of needing step-by-step starting from the point after extracting the snapshot archive. Obviously...

MeddlingMonk

When you say you have the static folder installed, do you mean you only have that folder and not all the original game data on your hard drive? If you did copy all the original game data, did you edit exult.cfg to set the paths? BTW, which version of OS X are you using? 10.4, 10.3, 10.2, or earlier?...

MeddlingMonk

Marzo, when I run ucc -o usecode usecode.uc in ./content/sifixes I get the error bash: ucc: command not found. When I'm configuring the snapshots, I'm enabling Exult studio. Is there anything else I need to be doing?

MeddlingMonk

Looks like you've run into much of what I did when I was building Exult (although I don't think I remember anything about freetype, but then I was struggling with it off and on for a long time). But that crash, I've never had that. There's another thread (Getting U7 gamedat folder on OSX?) about doi...

MeddlingMonk

Since Pentagram ran just fine without changing permissions of the original game data, I tried it with Exult and same thing. Maybe it's not so much permissions, in this case, as maybe the version of Exult. I'm using 1.4 snapshots. Perhaps 1.2 is different. Or perhaps the difference is in whether you'...

MeddlingMonk

Speaking of which, how do you get this to work in Linux or OS X? The directions say that one option is to copy the contents of the data folder to the patch folder for SI. And of course I've added a path to that in exult.cfg. There's got to be more because just doing that doesn't seem to work.

MeddlingMonk

It's probably the same or close enough. But most Mac users are GUI. Some are gooey but we won't go there.

MeddlingMonk

wjp, I'm not sure why. I'm going on the very unscientific principle of 'it worked when I did this'. One thing that's maybe semi-interesting if not semi-relevant is I set up Pentagram yesterday and for an experiment did not bother changing the permissions and that works fine (so far). Of course that'...

MeddlingMonk

Thanks. README.MacOSX doesn't say that.

MeddlingMonk

Just one more thing (I seem to be channeling Columbo today), the error I get when I try to do make Exult_app is "make: *** No rule to make target `Exult_app'. Stop."

MeddlingMonk

There's an easier way. When you just copy the files the permissions for owner are read and write but for group they are read only. That's why Exult has a problem if you just copy the files over. The group permissions also need to be read and write. That needs to be changed for every file and folder ...

MeddlingMonk

And here's something else. The problem of copying files directly from the CD v. installing with DOSBox is definitely about permissions. When you just copy the files (and this would be an issue for any *nix OS) the permissions for owner are read and write but for group they are read only. The group p...

MeddlingMonk

I'm not sure I can give any step-by-step instructions, mostly because I haven't been very methodical in what I've been trying. I would try to get it to work, get annoyed and leave off for a while and then try again and sometimes it'd be so long between attempts I could forget what I tried before. I ...

MeddlingMonk

OK. This is weird. I had another go with the latest snapshot and it worked. I didn't do anything different so I have no idea why it worked this time and not the last time.

MeddlingMonk

It's not on Intel Macs there's a problem making Exult. I have the same troubles on my PowerBook. At first it would just complain of missing this or that library or whatever but eventually I got everything (apparently) required through Fink but the make process still ends with errors. Possibly I'm ju...

MeddlingMonk

I don't contribute much here (apart from very rare bug threads) but I Andrea has a very good point. No game (despite the Origin motto) can make an entire world, just a part of one. A hint, if you will. The benefit of graphics that aren't anywhere near photo-realistic is that it's easier to take the ...

MeddlingMonk

I don't believe so. I tend to use quick save a lot. But I've found that, on top of everything else, it's possible to present the mandrake roots to Fedabiblio again and again and again. Will the last save that I have do? Otherwise, I could start a new game and do some teleporting to get what you need.

MeddlingMonk

Actually, it looks like no one other than Torissio will sell spells with this spell book, and Frigidazzi doesn't appear in her house. Kind of brings things to a screaching halt.

MeddlingMonk

I've submitted a bug report on this but I wonder if anyone else has run into this. I've been using the 11/14 snapshot (and everyone is where they should be) and ran into a strange thing with the spell book. When I return from Monk Isle with the mandrake roots, Fedabiblio reacts as normal until right...

MeddlingMonk

I just started a new game of SI using the latest snapshot. I spoke with Marsten et al. in the Monitor crypts, they walked out and that was that. Once they were out of sight I couldn't locate them. Except for Marsten, briefly, as I came out the crypts he was still walking toward the street. I followe...

MeddlingMonk

I'm getting similar things in a new game I started in SI with recent snapshots. The leaders of the commands in Montor along with...whatisname...the guy who exchanges money are missing from Monitor (although they reappear briefly for the feast) while Alysand sits in the office in the hall of Monitor ...

MeddlingMonk

Yeah, but what of it? It doesn't mean anything, any more than my 'name' means I'm a renegade Time Lord.

MeddlingMonk

The Vesper mine. The machine is behind a magically locked door.

MeddlingMonk

It's not just under XP that this is happening. I'm getting a similar thing under Win98. I'm still using 41.09 since they've been working the best for me, but this 'corruption' has appeared only in the last two or three builds of Exult. However, the only time I see the problem is the rare times I'm s...

MeddlingMonk

Actually, it was. The first time I played SI I blasted my way in (with a powder keg) and didn't realize my mistake until the plot pointed me back toward the castle. By that time all the saved games from before breaking into the castle were overwritten and I had to start over. It's a stupid oversight...

MeddlingMonk

OK, this is a little strange. I'm using the 3/12 Win32 build. I get the magic carpet and fly back to Britain and land between the Fellowship hall and the inn. Batlin comes out of the hall shouting 'Thief!' and 'Who moved my chair?' and promptly plants himself in one of the empty seats on the carpet....

MeddlingMonk

Cool. Gotta admit, though, it was a little surprising to see the news it was fixed on the front page.

MeddlingMonk

With the latest win32 build running under Win98SE Exult crashes when I try to sleep, both in BG and SI. What happens is that I click on a bed or bedroll, I'm asked how many hours I want to sleep, the screen fades to black and then drops to the desktop. I thought at first it might be a corrupt saved ...

MeddlingMonk

He might be (not) talking about the fact that invisible chests become visible when dragged. Big whoop.

MeddlingMonk

I can see all saves, too.

MeddlingMonk

I used the test version and still see only one saved game in the menu. ---- Exult version 0.99cvs Built at: May 15 2002 01:13:02 Compile-time options: DEBUG, USE_EXULTSTUDIO, NO_SDL_PARACHUTE, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT Compiler: Microsoft C/C++ Compiler, version: 12.0.8804 Platform: Windows 98 SE Version 4.1...

MeddlingMonk

I've seen this problem, too. It's been in nearly all of the Windows snapshots since RC1. I can add a little to what gruck is saying. The second (third, fourth, etc.) saves don't go poof. They actually get saved but they simply don't show up in the save menu. Only the first save does. If you delete t...

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