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I checked, and what I said is correct.

Because C has more than just 16 bit addition

There's no difference between signed and unsigned addition of 16 bit ints in a 16 bit world.

You're misunderstanding how integer arithmetic works.

Because U8 is a 16 bit engine, all its addresses are 16 bit, so 1209D is really interpreted as 209D.

This is probably just an overflow in the disassembly printing code, in which case it would actually jump to 209D.

I created https://sourceforge.net/p/exult/bugs/1887/

I'm not at all sure what would cause this, but these plaques are in the serpent script, while the Translation spell turns them into roman script. Could be a corrupt font file, maybe.

I can't reproduce this either, but just on a hunch, does this still happen after you cast the Translation spell?

Were you thinking of any improvements in particular?

That should be ~/.exult.cfg

-Willem Jan

I'm not sure if I remember this correctly, but I think the 'water' check is only done on the base flat 8x8 tiles, not on anything placed on top of that. So you could try putting water tiles under your object.

http://web.archive.org/web/200611240102 ... COMICS.htm

Any errors when running autogen.sh? It sounds like you possibly ran autogen.sh with a few missing -dev packages.

"exult-1.14.9rc1" < main no-studio package "exult-1.14.9rc1" < package including studio-aware exult as well as ES "exult-1.14.9rc1-src" < source package "exult-1.14.9rc1-tools" <extra tools package (expack, etc) "exult-1.14.9rc1-docs" < documentatio...

I don't see any case sensitivity issues, by the way: the file is called files/U7fileman.h, and that's exactly what tools/expack.cc includes. So if you renamed any files or changed any include directives, you should change them back.

Run 'make' (after autogen.sh and configure), not 'make -fMakefile.common all'.

I've committed the first part of a fix for this, but that only affects new games, not existing savegames. Still thinking about if it can be fixed for existing saves.

Was in a bit of a rush earlier... translation: the game's scripts are doing something wrong, but it's possible that's because we're putting them in an unexpected situation. (Or it could be an actual U8 bug.)

(I got the savegame.)

Interesting... it's failing because the ObjID of the focus is greater than 32767. I'll have to look at this in more detail. I filed a bug report on our bug tracker to make sure I don't forget.

Do you have the patched version of Ultima 8? (2.12 or higher)

It's hard to say what might be wrong from your description. Could you send us a savegame?

I'm guessing you do? If so, please explain the problem.

If you're using Exult you can have separate graphics for male and female gloves. The description for the gender field in the paperdol_info.txt file: #gender: 1 if has different frames for male/female, 0 otherwise. The frame numbers # given are for the female paperdolls, and they are increased by 1 f...

Thanks for tracking this down. It looks like the >= 9 was intended to be >= 21 (12h/24h confusion). I'll commit the fix.

And as always, we of course welcome patches

You should be able to have Corinth tell you that Gwillim saw the ghost at this point. If I read the usecode correctly, this should be the conversation with Corinth: ------ What do you do? "As we live in the country, away from most people, I do many things. Since my son did move away I am not as...

Good to hear. Our savegame system should allow saving at any time whatsoever, including during cutscenes.

SDL 1.3 is rumoured to be much better in this respect. You're welcome to submit a patch moving Pentagram to the new SDL 1.3 interface in preparation for its release and to test it.

Thanks for the analysis!

Looking through the bug tracker some more... did you encounter this bug?

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=d ... tid=471706

Good to hear

Looking at the usecode, it seems quite intentional that he doesn't really speak to you if you've already met Beren (unless you angered him). There's no text for the situation that he does know you (except if he's also angry.) The opening lines are: Very angry: "Foolish one. You have journeyed f...

A savegame for Beren turns out not to be necessary. Simply teleporting to 25 20248 24760 64 will already let you trigger his conversation. It did work entirely when I just tried it in Pentagram, though. I seem to recall this scene being rather buggy in the original too, by the way, so it could be th...

Thanks; looks like shadowchaser's patch indeed fixed that then.

BansheeX: that's a very puzzling error message, since it contradicts itself. We've had a similar report back in 2008: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=d ... tid=471706

gruck, Sergorn: did either of you encounter issues like this one?
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=d ... tid=471706

Strange: I've just tried the Slayer hole, and have no trouble at all falling through when walking with the medium-sized arrow.

Great!

Do you have savegames for these issues? Especially just before going to the Ethereal Void with the red glow, and before Beren's talk would be useful.

Do you still have the coordinates of the troublesome holes? (Either in numbers or a description.) For testing purposes such a list would be good to have. Changelings: You're right; I think we never got around to implementing shifting to the Avatar. Looking at the code they'll only shift to a tree cu...

I think I've fixed the items getting stuck on walls/ceilings, but since it's a rather low-level change, I hope it doesn't break related things. Please pay special attention to this when testing.

Yup... that's exactly the thing I meant in my 10-07-10 21:29 post. So in some cases we "jump down" too soon (stairs) and in others not soon enough (holes). It needs more fine-tuning, it seems.

Thanks for pointing out a specific troublesome location.

Great! Thank you very much for playing through Pentagram, and with such attention to detail. Two more known hi-res bugs: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1106397&group_id=53819&atid=471709 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1104271&group_id=53819&a...

Stuff sticking to walls/ceilings: one of our more annoying long-standing open bugs. I've spent some time on it tonight, and got about halfway through fixing it I think.

Please do

Gruck has submitted enough bug reports to keep me busy for a while, but more testing is always welcome.

We don't have hq3x though.

This should work a lot better now.

One small addendum: the current savegame descriptions can get quite long. If there's no room to show/enter the full description, that might be a problem.

There are two different resolutions that are important. The game resolution and the actual on-screen resolution. By default, the game will run at 320x200, and this is scaled up to 640x400. The higher resolution bugs you mention show up if the game resolution is higher than 320x200. However, Pentagra...

(Note: off-topic post.. this is about Pentagram/Ultima 8.) In Pentagram we are currently still using the fairly limited savegame menu of the original Ultima 8. I increased the number of available slots yesterday, but that's all. It would be very nice to enhance this further, to be more Exult-style. ...

I've just done something I should have done a long time ago, and made the menu display 96 savegame slots instead of U8's 12. I didn't test it extensively yet, so let us know if it works

BansheeX:

Is there anything in stdout.txt/stderr.txt after a freeze?
Could you try without audio? (midi_driver=disabled in pentagram.ini)

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