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Hmmm, according to my bash history, I just did ./configure --disable-tools, which is what I did on the laptop as well. Anyways, using SVN did solve the problem.

Out of curiosity, is there a specific bug blocking the next "release"?

Nope, Desktop and Laptop are both running the same standard version of Ubuntu 10.10. I suppose the laptop is more current on updates, but only by a few days or so.

Oh, good. I'll grab the snapshot... are the save games from 1.4.9rc1 forward compatible with it? I wonder why the compile worked on my desktop machine... I grabbed the same copy of Exult.

So I was trying to build the RC1 on Ubuntu 10.10 today. I did it about a week ago on my desktop with the same OS, but I can't seem to replicate my success on my laptop. Is there a list somewhere of what packages might be needed on a Debian system? I've installed build-essentials, libvorbis-dev, and ...

That certainly would be amazing. Am I understanding correctly that for this to work you would have to recreate all of the original art by hand?

I can just see crazy old Rudyom wandering out for his shift, wondering where all the pretty shiny trash went, and magicking it all back.
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This would be amazingly hilarious, and truly Ultima.

I wonder how hard it would be to address the "too much is visible" problem. I'm really only a junior programmer, but could it perhaps be resolved by having a rough 'circle' around the Avatar, of about the proper size where everything outside of the circle is somehow hazier? Kind of like a ...

Would it be possible to implement an auto-save feature? It looks like this was mentioned a while back... something that saves at certain key points and / or something that saves every X hours/minutes would be nice... optional of course, for those crazy (!) people that run Exult on a PDA Loving Exult...