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MeddlingMonk

Sorry. To prove you are legit you must provide a skin sample, blood sample, urine sample, stool sample, ottoman sample, and appear in a major Broadway production.

MeddlingMonk

LB was certainly clueless in UIX. "I don't know what to do" certainly summed him up in that game. I suppose that's why Richard finally dragged the old guy out of his castle and killed off the Avatar: she had become a crutch for the old boy.

MeddlingMonk

Going back to agentorangeguy's first question, the game strongly implies that the gambler (I simply cannot remember his name!) on New M is the illegitimate son of LB. His character portrait looks (to me) like a younger, beardless version of LB; and the gambler's companions make remarks about the gam...

MeddlingMonk

Yeah, the Avatar (you) is supposed to be LB's friend, like Dom said. I must have expressed myself badly: my intended meaning was that it is the bastard (in the technical sense) gambler who would be the one planning to blackmail LB, and that this is a second scheme (in addition to but separate from t...

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If LB's will is made into a mini-plot device, maybe there should be a way to obtain it other than murdering LB. The gambler (forgot the name) you meet in New Magincia, who is obviously an illegitimate son of LB, could be given a secondary scheme, in addition to the one about kidnapping whatsername, ...

MeddlingMonk

My first thought to this was, "Why not just pickpocket him?" My second thought was, "You've been playing waaay too much Skyrim." It's probably best if the will is just ignored, considering the only way to get it is to murder LB. All he has to do to keep you quiet is to threaten t...

MeddlingMonk

Double damn! I really should have checked my memory. But, after you do extract the game files, Boxer is still the best DOSBox front end for Macs.

MeddlingMonk

Oh, how I wish I could edit posts in this forum. Damn!

MeddlingMonk

As to that, the Mac DOSBox frontend, Boxer, will also take care of the GOG installers for DOS games.

Edit: Phorum codes to make urls or show images are found at Phorum Codes.

MeddlingMonk

http://www.gog.com/news/free_releases_w ... ultima_1_2

MeddlingMonk

Best damned game box ever. Ditto for the game manual. I'm pretty sure that it was the first and only time I ever started up a game without a freaking clue what it was the objective was supposed to be. You're just dropped in, and there's the dismembered body. Cope with it, Jimmy.

MeddlingMonk

I have been following the commits. But the news update, the first since 2007, on the front page and the 0.1 release mean it's more than just the occasional twitches that have happened in the past. It's even more astonishing than the new signs of life in Residual.

MeddlingMonk

Just go visit the Nuvie site and see it for yourselves.

MeddlingMonk

It works for me on Windws 7 64 bit. (Although it doesn't on Fedora 14 64 bit. Just freezes on startup. Pentagram, not the computer.)

MeddlingMonk

Dominus, I'm a fool. It's been so long I'd forgotten the correct way to build Pentagram on a Mac. Thanks for the reminder.

MeddlingMonk

I'm having a problem with building Pentagram in Mac OS 10.5.8 (PPc). The actual compiling works just fine. There are no errors and the binary runs just fine, but making an app bundle fails. The complete output when trying 'make bundle' is: common.mk:42: warning: overriding commands for target 'clean...

MeddlingMonk

I've been 'away' for a while, and what do I find? That I really wasn't crazy after all. Although I sort of drove myself crazy trying to address the static problem, being convinced it had to be a setting or something else on my PPC Mac. Oh, well.

MeddlingMonk

I'm not sure if I'm able to answer that question. But let's see if I can give you what you are after anyway. Looking at ScummVM's configure file, I can find the lines add_to_config_h_if_yes $_nasm '#define USE_NASM' add_to_config_mk_if_yes $_nasm 'USE_NASM = 1' After running configure and looking at...

MeddlingMonk

Discussions like this make me wish I lived in a world populated only by sane people.

But then I think, what would I be doing in it???

MeddlingMonk

I knew there would be something I'd leave out.

GCC is 4.4.4.

MeddlingMonk

New Fedora version recently, so that means trouble building Exult. This one is a little strange because there's no actual error. Just unexpected behavior. What happens is that when I try to build, the last output to come up is: libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I./../headers -I./.. -I....

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It works for me, but I'm having a problem with sound effects. I'm getting terrible sound from just the sound effects: doors, lamps, etc. Very loud and with a lot of static. I'm using the digital sound packs. Now, in Fedora, the SFX Options are set to 'custom' and everything sounds fine and it looks ...

MeddlingMonk

Mono: Too bad I didn't look at this thread earlier. I could have saved you some trouble. GDB is included with Xcode. You already had it.

MeddlingMonk

I don't know whether there's anything that does what you're referring to, because I very much doubt that there are all that many people who know that 'you' and 'thou' ARE the formal and informal forms of the second-person pronoun. I think that most people think either that 'thou' is simply the old f...

MeddlingMonk

OK, so it's an option to build the mods rather than download and install them separately. Probably only useful if you haven't already got the modes set up, then.

MeddlingMonk

I just noticed a new (to me, anyway) configure option: --enable-mods. It obviously isn't needed to play mods, so what's different about a build with or without it enabled?

MeddlingMonk

I think Nuvie is/was down to just one guy, really.

MeddlingMonk

All of these changes played he// with my attempts to fix my mysteriously borked exult.cfg (I ended up just waiting for the dust to settle and then redoing the config) but it's good all this has happened. It's been a long time since there's been this much activity.

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On a tangent, it looks like the docs will need updating to include the instructions for all this.

MeddlingMonk

Mono, I'm pretty sure there are no universal options in Fink. I've searched the docs and the mailing list archives. I found a statement from about four years ago giving an unambiguous 'no' on whether Fink will support universal binaries, and the fact that there's nothing newer on the subject probabl...

MeddlingMonk

Is it really just a problem building libglade? The error says that the dependencies also won't build. The fact that you migrated from Fink to MacPorts makes me wonder what's in '.profile'. If you haven't checked, you may want to and see whether there are Fink-related lines in there and whether or no...

MeddlingMonk

Fink offers some precompiled binaries, but if you want the latest versions of things you have to download and compile the source code. And, as far as I know (and I've just double-checked), Fink doesn't have any universal option like MacPorts does and has no plans to offer it (something about their D...

MeddlingMonk

Yes, the folder was empty. It's odd that my own builds don't behave this way, but I think I need to go through exult.cfg for other reasons as well (it's no longer showing mods in the menu but the mods do show up in Fedora) when I get some time this weekend maybe.

MeddlingMonk

OK, so clearly Fink is no good for building universal binaries of Exult. Too bad about 10.6 not doing PPC, but it makes sense considering 10.6 is Intel only. It had to happen sooner or later.

MeddlingMonk

It worked on my PPC Mac with one small oddity. It placed a 'blackgate' folder on the desktop which is where I placed your bundle (not wanting to overwrite my own in Applications). It was empty. No idea why the folder was created. I didn't run SI but assume it would have placed a 'serpentisle' folder...

MeddlingMonk

It's been quite a while since I played with MacPorts, which you're obviously using, but I think I remember that some or many libraries and packages came in PPC or Intel or Universal versions. Fink doesn't. I have to wonder, then, whether MacPorts would make building a universal binary more possible;...

MeddlingMonk

About the serpent necklace: that story goes at least back to 'The Official Book of Ultima' published in 1990. Did he mention in his talk that he destroyed one of his mother's belts to make the chain? And the reason the serpent looks so professional is that he made it with the help of his mother (bef...

MeddlingMonk

Stealing seems to work the same as in the original. But, like the original, you not only have to open the inventory, you should drop the swag onto any party member other than the Avatar; that way, it's not the Avatar who's doing the stealing.

MeddlingMonk

Ah, the good old days when games came with loads of, well, useless crap; but nice useless crap. LB famously switched publishers for Ultima II because Sierra was willing to allow the cloth map and Ultima I's publisher didn't want the added expense. Infocom was the master of trinkets in the game box, ...

MeddlingMonk

Yes. I was referring to my previous attempts over the weekend to find anything that would work.

MeddlingMonk

Anyway, all boards have rules and boundaries. Many have subtopics. This one doesn't. There's nothing sinister about that. Unmoderated or poorly moderated boards are soon not worth visiting.

MeddlingMonk

Thanks. To date I've only been able to locate the vbruntime 3 installer, which doesn't seem to really install on 64-bit Win7 (at least, the updater fails to recognize that it is, and so apparently does the FW launcher). Maybe the version 5 installer will actually work, but I won't be trying it today.

MeddlingMonk

U9 works just fine in 64 bit. I mean, given that it's U9 of course. The launcher itself doesn't seem to do anything, not even try to find the U9 install directory. I'm not even sure if the VB6 runtime even installs properly. Supposedly it's supposed to work with 64-bit Win7, but it's Microsoft that ...

MeddlingMonk

Well, looks like I won't be playing with the demo any time soon. It doesn't work with 64-bit Windows 7, unless someone knows or can find a way.

MeddlingMonk

Should any care (about anything related to U9), Forgotten World has released a demo of what they've done so far to enhance Ascension. Haven't had a chance to play with it myself yet. Maybe this weekend.

MeddlingMonk

That's right. My take on the way Gargoyles speak is that they are imposing the grammar of their own language on human speech. Kind of like (to use a fictional example) when the King of Bohemia writes in a letter to Sherlock Holmes "This report of you we have from all quarters received." Th...

MeddlingMonk

It used to seem very strange to me that companies kept such a vise-like hold on their old IP when they didn't seem interested in actually doing anything with it any more. Then along came The Secret of Monkey Island SE. For corporations, especially American ones, 'long range' is only the next quarter...

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I imagine that may help. It narrows it down a little. It's not OS specific at any rate. Whether it's architecture-related (like endianness) or something to do with Fink-provided libraries (which I use) I couldn't say, but it's something to add to the bug report.

MeddlingMonk

Dominus, recently I submitted a bug report for a build problem with Pentagram affection Fedora 11. That's mostly fixed but it's possible that in the fixing it broke building in OSX. At least, it's broken now in OSX PPC whatever the cause. Maybe it'd help some to know whether it's a problem on the In...

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Konqueror also doesn't like the images page but, like Safari, Opera copes.

And if you don't mind a suggestion, I think it'd be nice if for the Time Lord you used Jon Pertwee or maybe William Hartnell.

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