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BG didn't support altering NPC schedules. SI on the other hand did, and it was used quite a bit.

Exult has 'back ported' the support for altering schedules into BG.

Actually, the OGGs from SI sound slightly different to the output from Exult. Best as I can tell, the OGGs are wrong. Not sure how they were recorded but I'm guessing it was done by playing midi files converted using XMI2MID outside of the game itself, which in this case wont reproduce everything co...

Yes. Use a Exult 1.4 Snapshot for Sysex support. Exult doesn't support MIDI SFX so it only has an effect on the music. If you set the correct Midi output device and set exult to the correct midi conversion type you will be laughing. Oh and using an SCC-1 is unnecesary. It is really old and I don't r...

I'd say try a snapshot, but you'll need to compile it yourself as we don't have any binary snapshots for OSX. We should probably provide a binary OSX snapshot as there is that problem in the 1.2 release. Will need to talk to Max about arranging something.

The Music system was rewritten since Exult 1.2 was released and it replaced the old 'dodgy' OSX midi driver with a much better one.

Or just not use automake.

There is a big technical problem though with Exult. It's memory usage patterns are not ideal for those machines. It uses far too much memory.

You need to pick up the staff from the cave. The game may not be completable if you dont. From Exult's FAQ: 5.15. An important note about the Serpent Staff (SI) The Serpent Staff in SI is a very important item. It doesn't seem like it but it is crucial to some major plot elements that you have the s...

Dungeons are flagged by their 'roof' shapes.

Its an unofficial port that I was awear of, spoke to the developer of a few times and helped him out with a few sticking points (such as SDL). Didn't directly help with the devlopment and didnt want to either as it was made with the Stolen XDK. The only thing that I did was port SDL over to using Di...

There is nothing wrong with selling 'Exult'. GPL doesn't forbid profiting off of GPL work. We can't stop it. We ourselves would never do it, but someone else could if they wanted to. Can't say we'd be happy to see it though. EA of course might have something to say about it though, but that's nothin...

Something you didn't mention is why that was all a problem trying to run the game under a protected environment. What the problem is the 'unreal mode' bug only existed in real mode. It did not exist in Virtual86 mode which is used to run real mode applications within a protected mode environment (wh...

You can have 6 party members total in SI (Avatar and 5 others). Some people may not join if the party is of a certain size. If that happens and you have less than 6 people, try asking them to join in a different order.

Same applies to BG that has a max party size of 8

You need to get the key off of the woman who works at the mint. Either get it from her body or steal it from her nightstand when she sleeps.

If your code is as bad as you say, then perhaps opensourcing it is a good idea since others may actually fix your code for you...

I remember modifying a lot of the flic code, but I really can't remember eveything I did. Mostly it was for timing and ability to display a single frame and manually advance the frame (for compositing reasons among other things).

I was planning on semi porting Pentagrams graphics system over to Exult to clean things up however my time to spend on Exult and Pentagram now days is very limited so it hasn't been done.

Denis Loubet did 'a lot' of the art for Ultima 8. His website has (had?) the 3DStudio files for The Avatar and Pyros.

I really wouldn't recommend you put saves and gamedat in the same directory, however with current builds of exult you shouldn't have any problems doing that. But once again, i don't think that is a good idea.

Sockets and Winsock are different enough that there probably isn't much point.

Use Named Pipes for communications in NT and a hack using mailslots in Win9x

Thought people might like to read this article about what happened to Origin

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/14/4

The forum software we use, Phorum, uses a secure method of storing passwords making it impossible to recover your password. Be warned, any forum software that does allow you to recover your password is very insecure and means that your password can easily be stolen. As for your current situation, th...

If exult stops working at a specific resolution for you, then the problem is going to be your system. In particular your graphics card drivers.

Ok, thanks. The elusive search continues for a mt-32.......

Just use EBay

Obviously you are missing the point of a tablet PC. It's to be used without any other control device. Only the stylus

Tablet control would pretty much be a 1 button mouse interface with no keyboard. You'll need some kind of HUD.

Getting a MT-32 would be better than a LAPC-1. Almost all modern computers don't have ISA slots anymore, so unless you know your system has one, then it's a bad idea. The MT-32 connects to the MIDI ports on your sound card. Usually you need a Joystick Port->MIDI converter cable as most sound cards d...

If it is, why hasn't it been reported before!

You should save to something compressed like PNG. Will take a rather long time to process the image, but should be substanially smaller. Probably only want to do the last stage to PNG.

For the Pentagram minimap i actually to a trace and sample the pixel at the location of the trace. Results were good. Don't think it would work too well with exult though. DrCodes idea would probably be best. What might be an idea is to 'preprocess' the chunks down to a single pixel The pentagram Mi...

Just so people don't get 'scared' all savegames from V1.0 should still work. We wont intentially totally break savegames from previous releases. We will integrate workarounds so old savegames still load. But as happens a lot, fixes wont appear if you use old games. However it's quite likely new save...

My suggestion, edit exult.cfg and set the reslution to 320x240. By default it's at 320x200 and your monitor may not be able to handle it.

The way Ultima 8 (and Pentagram) implements speech is whenever anything says anything we do a check to see if that object has a speech flex and if it does we do string compares between what is being said and the list of speech files in the flex. If a match is found the speech is played. This could w...

I developed the Midi code using a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS so I have no idea what would be going wrong.

Please give more details about your configuration and exactly when you are trying to escape

Origin, and Ultima are owned by Electronic Arts. So piracy does hurt.

What DLL?

The XML 'like' files that Exult uses are very much not standard XML files though.

Of course in Pentagram we decided not to use XML files, instead we use INI files simply because they are much simpler for the average user to understand. And they are just easier to read.

You can't do it without editing the exult source code.

There is a file (paperdoll_gump_info.cc i think) that contains all the data used to display paperdolls

The Midi code under windows is Multithreaded. But it's not going to cause very much performance difference.

It means your download was corrupted

You'll find them on this page:

http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~wpalenst/ultima/

Exult really isn't designed to attempt this sort of thing. Adding in coordinate transformations will be a pain. Biggest problem is though, Exult assumes the viewable screensize is the same as the window size. Exult renders everything to a single buffer. So you'll need to create a second buffer and g...

Probably doesn't delete the file when gamedat is cleared

As stated in the GPL he has to supply the source to anyone who wants it.

Ah, Exult studio isn't building, so it's going to be in the tools. If you disable building the tools, exult 'should' build fine. But i don't know how the Exult Linux make system works so I can't help very much.

Install the latest version of Lib PNG. I think the problem is due to using an old version...

Or the problem is Exult is coded to use an old version... but I'm pretty sure that's not it.

Or, you could compile without Exult Studio support and everything will be fine then.

Odd, that is almost exactly how Ultima 8 works

Using chunks or whatever other name you want to call them, is a coarse, simple, but yet very effective compression scheme. If done right it reduces memory requirements, create a nice structure to store and sort data in, and can greatly improve general efficency in item management.

U7 also did have map elevation. U8 just took it to the next level with gravity, climbing, throwing and real projectiles. U8 could have had complex schedules. But the disk space required for all the animations would have meant a CD-Rom only game. EA would not allow that at the time. Also would have l...

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