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Wow congrats guys! Maybe its time to replay the VIIs again haha.

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HADOKEN!

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As far as Mac goes, its just PPC going away finally. 10.7 was the end of the line for my first gen 2006 Mac Pro, so that will at least keep all the Intel Macs going. And lets face it, anyone still using a PPC, is probably doing it for some sort of business running software they just can't get anymor...

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I don't have enough drugs to follow along with this..

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Surely someone has a giant bitmap or some other shot of the world map from the games data files?? Ive seen one for Serpent Isle. It was neat seeing the whole map and how they made EVERYTHING fit into one giant tiled image. Beats the old days of having to swap disks to go from Britannia into a dungeo...

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Yep awesome both Baldur's Gates and Icewind Dale Enhanced Editions have it all too!

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Ooooooooh cool!!! Took a sec to find them but they're inside the .boxer package inside the apps Resources folder hehe. Well hell I guess I can delete all the extras then! I always download those separately and have a huge folder of all the cluebooks, manuals and everything they give you with the gam...

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I just had GOG Galaxy install good old Curse of the Azure Bonds, now that I know where to copy save game files inside it from my DOSBox setup.. And I noticed the file size on it is huge! I went and checked the freebie Ultima 4 they have, its 84MB??? My whole D-Fend Reloaded VirtualHD folder is only ...

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Im kinda curious what the updates are that GOG does to them? AFAIK, its just a DOSBox wrapped up and configured to run the original U7. On the Mac we get them wrapped in Boxer packages which is just a self-contained DOSBox setup from the Boxer front end, much like how D-Fend on Windows could package...

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Hahaha thats what they wanted you to do. A bunch of people were complaining about it on the Beamdog forums, because certain encounters ruin their chances of playing a "no reload" game. We had to remind them, 'um thats how AD&D 2E worked, it was brutal'.. God forbid they ever have to pl...

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Its been ages since I did the Lich encounter in vanilla. I don't remember having much trouble with it in Exult though, my last run through was about 8 years or so ago though, and that was the first time I actually finished the game. Id have to start over to go through it again, my saved game is at t...

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Have you ever fought a lich in AD&D or even Baldur's Gate??? Probably the most frustrating enemy you will ever encounter. The whole Time Stop spell they can do is usually enough to render your entire party dead when he's done with you.

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Oh my god I don't even think I knew that Exult even existed yet! I was playing them in hyperspeed with the old Ultima Collection CD still hahaha. I think I barely found out about MAME around then.

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Oh my god its a nightmare to setup in DOSBox though. Exult every time! :D Im not really too familiar with ScummVM but if its an improvement Im all for it haha. I have it and a bunch of Lucasfilm and Sierra games but now that I think about it I don't think I ever actually used it. I always assumed it...

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They don't need ScummVM though, they all work just fine in DOSBox..

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Ahh so thats how that whole thing works! Not that Im complaining, I have the free Ultima 4 they released and bought 1-7 pt 2 from em even though I have the Ultima Collection cd still along with my Apple/IBM copies. I just wish I wouldve thought of packaging them up like that first haha. I thought ab...

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Reading Dominus's responses, its not a Finder problem at all really. Sounds like GOG is using Boxer as its front end for running DOSBox in there. Instead of having a separate DOSBox install, along with a folder they are mounting as the C: drive, they used Boxer to make a self-contained '.boxer' file...

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Nice I just found it myself, cant wait to see this finished!!

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This is a pretty cool idea.. Youre using MIDI files of the original songs I take it and just triggering Kontakt and whatnot as the instruments??

I should try this with Absynth and my modular and see just how screwed up of an 'alternate ambient techno version' I can come up with hahaha..

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I finished SI (after starting it in oh 93/94) with Exult about 6 years ago with absolutely no problems.. Basically did a complete walkthrough with the Origin cluebook, and didnt hit a single snag.. Almost positive it was finished with daily SVN builds too (before 1.5 was actually 'released'), as at ...

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Unless you really like to go wandering off track in the game youll be able to finish it just fine.
I last did it a few years ago with 1.5 following along with the old Origin clue book and didnt hit a single snag in the game.

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Hackmover!!! Dont let doors (or walls or mountains or castles) stop you, just move it out of the way hehehe..

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What OS and what exactly did you do to 'update'? The Exult app should never touch your save or data files. Ive had the same set of save games on my system for almost 10 years now, theyre the same games I started the first time I downloaded Exult. Finally finished Serpent Isle a few years ago (been w...

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Well as was said it was major part of the plot. Magic was way out of whack in VII. This disturbance to the ether affected the moongates as well to the point that they became erratic and no longer worked as they used to. Hence why they were there all the time and killed you instead of transporting yo...

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Just curious, why are you building an X11 version for OS X instead of going the Mac friendly 'normal' route??

Never thought of that before. I bet I could give you all kinds of new headaches with compiling all over again Dominus!

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Ahh ok Ill have to give that a try if I can figure out where I put the box now haha!

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So who else got the 'Collectors Edition' of Quest of the Avatar sent to them? Pretty much the same stuff they sent us before only this time in a nice box (which the post man destroyed just like when I sent my entire Ultima V back to Origin in 1987 for replacement). Cant figure out what the heck to d...

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Unless you have problems with your building environment, you shouldnt have to do anything more then the standard autogen/configure/make, it all gets done for you.

(Thats what the README files are for ;D)

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"Thanks to everyone who works with the Exult code because they fix things pretty quick these days. You all rock!" I highly second this right here! Of all the new games over the years Ive played, I keep coming back to this series all the time. No matter how many times Ive finished any of th...

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Ugh so you still have to make a custom Autoexec.bat and Config.sys to use the Voodoo Memory Manager to run it??
I remember having a hell of a time trying to run it in DOSBox so I gave up and just went back to Exult cause it actually worked..

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Dang man. Glad you got Curse worked out. Im not around as much as I used to be so I just saw your post asking for Disk B just now hehe. Wish I could help you with the U7 stuff but my only copies of those I still own are in fact the UC cd which just basically has the entire thing already extracted in...

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Wow I wish I wouldve been on here last week and seen this so I couldve donated!
This sounds like its gonna be pretty awesome and man, Tracy Hickman, one half of the godlike Dragonlance team, is on the design team now??
SIGN ME UP!

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Dang. I still have Bards Tale 3, Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, and Secret of the Silver Blades but no way to read the floppies.
Only 5.25" drives I still have are my C64s.. If any of those are corrupted and provided everythings legit, I can probably find disk images for you..

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HAH! I will admit after the 'goody goody' atmosphere of 4/5/6, the first time I saw the murder scene in Trinsic I knew 7 was gonna be an awesome 'WTF?' experience..

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"I remember there being a similar "Lanceboard" room in the Ruins of Undermountain module around that time, too. Reminded me of Knight's Bridge the moment I saw it. :)" Actually I think its in the module thats based on Lewis Carrolls Through The Looking Glass. I cant remember what...

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Hell for $2 even Ultima 9 might be worth trying out!

Oh wait screw that POPULOUS IS ON SALE TOO!!!

I never did play Wing Commander either..

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So I didnt make the cut and get to test the beta for UF, but got an email a month or so ago thanking me and asking for an address so they could send some stuff to me. I had almost forgotten about it when I got an envelope just now from Mythic in the mail. Pretty cool, not only did I get a rather nic...

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Man the U6 remake looks awesome from the screenshots! Cant wait til this gets finished!

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Oh come on thats too easy!!

(Actually thats where I got your instructions for building with static libraries hehe)

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Yeah I did a redundant update of everything yesterday just to make sure. My automake/autoconf and everything are all the current versions at MacPorts. Its wierd, like I said it worked fine on my last build but that was a few months ago, and Ive been running Ubuntu on my Mac mainly since I last did i...

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Ahhh gotcha! I did find that error its stopping on in the Bug Tracker just a few minutes ago during a google search, someone posted it back in May and the fix posted was: "It can be fixed by replacing all ucparse.h occurences with ucparse.hh in the following files: usecode/compiler/uclex.cc use...

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It builds with disabling compiler but am I going to be missing anything by not building it??

I have flex installed as well, but still no luck with the compiler..

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Aargh make starts running fine and then hits this now! Making all in compiler g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I./../../headers -I./.. -I./../../files -I./../.. -O2 -Wno-long-long -I/opt/local/include -MT ucparse.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/ucparse.Tpo -c -o ucparse.o ucparse.cc make[3]: *** No rule to make...

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Got it I think.. Had to install pkg-config with MacPorts, which listed ogg and vorbis as installed libraries.. Re-ran autogen.sh and then configure and now its found everything..

Odd I couldve sworn I already had pkg-config on here, but guess not??

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Havent booted into Mac OS for awhile now but decided to update my Exult SVN while I was at it. Last time I did it, it worked perfect but today after updating my source Im running into this during ./configure: ./configure: line 17707: syntax error near unexpected token `OGG,' ./configure: line 17707:...

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Haha first thing I did was get rid of Unity and set my X-session for Kubuntu and Gnome.
My poor Mac OS partition is feeling left out, I think its been over a month since I booted to it.

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I never once ran into this bug but what the heck, looks like its time to play U7 again..

I assume if I build the latest svn on Ubuntu Ill have all the fixes in place right??

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Good call Dominus! That window was too short for me and I didnt even actually get to participate. I signed up again for the betas just in case I got dropped for not giving any feedback.. Got the Mac Pro bootcamped yesterday with Win 7 so hopefully my system specs are up to par.. Luckily I cant play ...

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Alpha was 'over' as of midnight today.. Seemed pretty short, only lasted for 3 days or so..

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Wow Boxer looks like its come quite along way since the last time I tried it out! Ive been using DBGL for a long time now but might have to go try out Boxer now. Thanks for the heads up BTW! I never got to play either of the Worlds games 'back in the day'. For some reason they just never appealed to...

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