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Here is a suggestion Rodrigo. Translating U7 takes a lot of time. Like the doc said, it took a team of 4 people over 2 years in our spare time. So I recommend you assemble a team of translators and make sure one of them has development skills (it's pretty much essential for this project anyways). Ge...

Hi all, as mentioned in http://exult.info/forum/viewtopic.php?p=332697#p332697 I need some help to setup something for the translation. Here is the issue: the books contain so much text, that some functions *just* fits the 16 bit usecode (in particular the 0x02C1 function). Translated to French (whi...

Thanks Dominus for pointing to that page. However, it is awfully old and missing important stuff. I really need to update it. I even wonder if the information is accurate since the conf file has changed so much and Marzo has added a whole bunch of new features since I wrote that document. There are ...

I think Dominus is spot on regarding being closer to Ultima in the long run. After all, this is a beta to basically test core functionality, but there are still parts that are unavailable, like the quest log at the top. Once the get to have this ready, then you'll probably see something more Ultima-...

From what I've heard on the built-in chat, and apparently from www.twitter.com/OfficialLoU they are about to open a new island in 20 minutes, which means you will be able to try it out.

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DrCode: Okay, I just checked it and it does work with Firefox on Linux. However, I didn't work on my default profile (which has plenty of web developer extensions), but it worked with a new profile. So my guess is, they watch for one of "Web Developer" or "Firebug". I have other ...

DrCode:

Since I have a city under development, I never get the "server full" message. Be patient and try again, within minutes even.

I will try it out with Firefox on Linux. I have done Firefox/MacOS and Firefox/Windows and those both worked. I will let you know.

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to Andrea, in fact, I think it's a bit like the relationship between Might and Magic (the RPG serie) and Heroes of Might and Magic (the strategy serie). They share something in common in the name, but it's completely different products. That being said, it's a testimony to the power of HTML, CSS and...

My view on this LoU is more of a technical one. As a fulltime web developer, I am always interested in how things are coded. So when I played LoU I looked and wondered, 'How did they manage to do that?'. Say what you want, on a technical aspect, a game working in real-time over the web (over the clo...

Playing with it right now. So far it's a glorified Settlers II.

Rather fast for a browser game I must say and not too unpleasant.

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I thought Beh-Lem was a wingless gargoyle

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I can't speak for the other arch, but the Zaurus port is suffering from the lack of an updated SDL as well as the requirement for gcc-3 or gcc-4 (only supports gcc-2.95.x). As a result, it is very unlikely that you would get Exult 1.4 (when it's ready) on the Zaurus. I had tried to port the newest g...

Hi all, this message is mostly intended to Marzo, but anyone is free to pitch in. I've received a bug report for Si-French today saying that Cellia, the fur trader in Monitor, doesn't offer the fur items anymore with the French patch. This is odd since I remember buying it with no pb. Then it occurr...

it's the economy.

Well, now we're in full OT mode!

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I though it was appropriate, but would have been even more if the suject was preceded with [OT].

After all, we do use Doxbox to compare Exult's way of doing things with the original engine.

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>I cant remember his SI persona, but he was aways lurking around somewhere.

I think that was the treasurer in Monitor (forgot his name).

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sorry, I must have missed that again, but where does one see all your screenshots, or for that matter, download some of your creation?

thx
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What we used for (unofficial) SI-french (Serpent Isle in French) was pretty much the exact same as they did for the official Black Gate translation in French. Since we could not use the characters from 128-255, we tucked the accentuated characters in the first 0-31 characters. We wrote the text usin...

Dominus (on the run) wrote: > This is really old news, AFAIK Exult even has code from the munt > project, and canmake use of those ROMS as well, if support is > coded in. (I could be wrong, though, I think Colourless added > this sometime after 1.2 when he rewrote the sound system). True. However, I...

Hey all, if you have legal access to the MT-32 ROMS, especially MT32_CONTROL.ROM and MT32_PCM.ROM, you can find and install the mt32emu package and instruct Dosbox to use this newly added MIDI conversion port. As a result, you can play all the great games of old (Might and Magic, Dune, Legend of Kyr...

We should have some sort of a Wiki for SE Remake, where users (proven to have legal access to SE data) could access the yet-to-be done SE data and submit reconstructed images.

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Scythifuge,

is there someplace on the web where all your progress can be seen and/or downloaded?

thx
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Sure, shots would be nice as I can't make sense of what you explained.

I ran Exult on both 320x240 and 320x200 screen resolutions on the Zaurus and there were no screen size issues.

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I absolutely _LOVE_ the wisps song.

Well done.

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Could you describe what colour issues you have and also tell me what ROM you use as well as your version of SDL?

It may be related to lack of memory (private map etc) but likely is an SDL issue.

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I have done it about 3 times this week alone!

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I keep deleting spam messages going, as if from spite, in this thread!

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The Italian team have made such a tool I believe. It may have been used for other translations as well.

thx
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do you mean it would be a lot easier..... to be in 32 bit? or something else? Anyways, yes, it would be for translation. The english text just fits in 16 bits for the book function. Other languages tend to use more space than English, so it fails hard. We did a 32 bit usecode conversation for SI-fre...

Hi all,

is there any tools to convert the usecode file from 16 bits to 32 bits?

thx
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oh, and CVS is not gonna stay for long IIRC (and you may want to start to learn SVN)

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Hey guys, I guess that qualifies as a good news. Since you can import Truetype fonts with Exult Studio (IIRC), check out http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/news/2008/05/05/introductory-screencast/ This allows you to create fonts using your web browser and export it to TT. It supports a fairly large char...

Fabien,

the forum is only viewable with an account....

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ps: and amazing work!

Jon,

I'm glad that helped! As for tagging as fixed, just let the thread die.

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I don't have a C3100 or C3200, so I'm not too sure how it is best to help you. Make sure the libSDL is as up to date as possible. That's probably your best bet. The keymaps file is described in the documentation if I recall correctly but I doubt there is the ability to simulate a double left click t...

maybe I should specify I use Firefox on Linux... maybe the effect differs on other platforms.

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Hey all, this is sorta off-topic as it doesn't really relate to Exult, but to Exult's forum. Has anyone noticed that once in a while (I guess when you hit a badly configured round-robbined webserver), the page is offered to be downloaded (as a PHP) instead of viewed in the browser? Cancelling the re...

in reality though, you don't need to remember anything when playing U7. Maybe at most where to go next and stuff like this... But passwords and codes, there is no need in U7. As soon as the player founds out a password (like "Blackbird" and such), a flag is raised and it becomes automatica...

hmm.... maybe it was the 'N' key then...

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you mean, what you get when you press the 'J' key?

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I think the current position is sound. This is a labour of love not of profit. Any commercialism attached to this project can only increase the chances it might get shot down by e&a.

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destroying the black gate without Electronic Arts logo should be a bug IMHO.

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Maybe Exult should be modified to understand exult-scripts directly. This way, we could distribute source code as it's not only easier to play with than compiled source but also way more easily trackable with CVS/subversion (IIRC CVS doesn't do well with binary files).

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a few comments * sundial: try to blow it up using another scaler. More info about scalers on http://scale2x.sourceforge.net/index.html * the fountain is perfect. It blends great in the environment. * same for the extinguisher. Great proportion and colors. * the scissors might need more work. Sorry. ...

I may be wrong but I think it goes this way: the image is indexed based, like an 8-bit GIF and the palette rotates, creating an illusion of animation. So if your image is a 2x2 (for the purpose of simplification): #1 #1 #3 #2 and with the following color palette: #1: yellow #2: red #3: blue Then all...

for what it's worth, Si-french uses 32bit usecode as the usecode function that holds most of the books swells tremendously when translated in french and goes well beyond the capabilities of 16 bit.

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And the Zaurus files are only for the Zaurus PDA. It's not for your normal PC/Mac/Pocket PC.

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that's how it works with the Zaurus too. You can also alter the default_keys files so that you can use the other buttons for combat/break-combat ('c') and target ('t'), which are the 2 most useful commands. The rest is gravy, like "esc", and inventory ('i').

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well, the only way I could think would be to have some assembler guru making sense of the binary. Since it was running on Dos (and thus, tell me if I'm wrong, single-threaded) it should be a tad easier. Not that understanding assembler is easy! Then of course, you get all the issues of clean-room de...

it's too bad the source code for U7 is lost. It would have been awesome to see how they did their tricks for optimization. The Zaurus could really benefit from u7's original engine designs.

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