Ultima 7 gold?

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thies

Ultima 7 gold?

Post by thies »

Good day,

I have the Ultima7 gold CD. Now, how do I get it to work in FreeBSD? I copy all files to HD, unzip what there is to unzip, point the exult.cfg to the folder and... nothing. I don't get to that fabled menu, I get no window, nothing.
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Re: Ultima 7 gold?

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Any errors on the terminal you ran Exult from?
thies

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Post by thies »

not really

Platform: Unknown
Exult path settings:
Data : /usr/local/share/exult
Digital music : /usr/local/share/exult/music

after which nothing tends to happen
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Re: Ultima 7 gold?

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Are exult.flx, exult_bg.flx and exult_si.flx in /usr/local/share/exult ?
thies

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Post by thies »

yes. both are there.
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Re: Ultima 7 gold?

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Both? There should be three.
thies

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

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my bad. three.
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Re: Ultima 7 gold?

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Which exult version is this and which compiler (and version) did you use to build it?
thies

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

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version 1.2 built with gcc 3.3.3 on freebsd 5.2
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Re: Ultima 7 gold?

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hm, I let it sit there for about an hour now and finally out of nowhere I get an "exult" window. Only that it's completely black.
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Re: Ultima 7 gold?

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A black window in SDL is usually because some filepath is incorrect, as far as I know.
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Re: Ultima 7 gold?

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Are you familiar enough with gdb or strace or similar tools to see what exult is doing during that hour?
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