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Daemongar

Well, if you figure this out, you may want to document your process and create a FAQ on this. I saw your message and started tinkering. I noticed the notes on compiling the info using Visual Studio was a little sparse, but it got me started. I installed SDL, Zlib, and SDL-Mixer, and a few other smal...

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Well, there isn't a reasonably complete UU engine so that's right out. The only alternative is using Exult for this, and I believe it would be a fun project. It could be done with the Exult engine, since the beasts, armor, items and graphics are built in. Then, when Exult3D comes out: *poof!* we hav...

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UW in Exult? That would be awesome - I believe the studio as it stands would be perfect for something like this. I think it would be hard with the 3d puzzles, but there is more than enough ways to make something challenging with 2d graphics. Oh - and the sounds like Diablo - well, in my defence and ...

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Thanks! I'll be spending the next week out of town living in a hotel for work and was trying to think of something more constructive than playing World of Warcraft with the few free hours of bored free time I may have. Oh, and I love Gateway to Apsahai (lol.) We'll see about doing something with thi...

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I have had this idea in my head for a while now, and next year I'll be taking Visual C++ basic & advanced so I am wondering if I can do it in Exult Studio: The avatar starts in a dungeon a la UW1 - with bare necessities on his back. He is on a 1st level dungeon. He fights mongbats, those bubbly ...

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Yeah - why the heck aren't D&D trolls like JRR Tolkien trolls?! In The Hobbit they are like big 9' humans, iirc, and can't stand sunlight. Wait a second... U7 Trolls are more like Tolkien trolls, which TSR stole trolls from and most of their ideas. link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolls_...

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Yeah - I finished U8 pre patch - and almost lost my mind. Getting to the titan of Air - and the moving platforms - and making it to Mythran - all without a good jumping system? And then at the end - you had to jump all over again to the Titan of Air?! AUGH! Anyone who acts like the jumping was a wal...

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Thanks for the quotes SB-X - those jumped at my eyes: I read the Letter to the Editor and it struck me as typical business, and deflected nothing from Trip Hawkins. Amazing that he would write that - it boiled down to: Those Garriott boys should toughen up - this is business. Don't take it personal ...

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Confusion reigns! Thanks for the link - I hope to help as much as I can by playing it lots!

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How about a link?

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Congrats!

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Yeah - really fantastic. I like the step by step and straightforward.

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Is there an egg that one can remove so he doesn't have a heart attack? Any way to save that guy - like everyone else, I tried a hundred ways to save him.

What would be the barebones one would have to do to have him follow me back to Monitor and resume a productive life?

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I was wondering how hard it would be to do a if Pomdragon dead then ("Thank you for rescuing me, I think I can find my way back to Monitor because I was peeking from behind my blindfold, etc" next Johnson runs off screen, control returns to Avatar, Johnson is now the tattoo artist in Monit...

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Thanks zos/X - I think you are right on! The illusion of depth was there in Ultima 4 - just because those in Paws(?) with the mystics I knew were up to something, but I didn't know what to say. It was with great surprise that I stumbled on www.moongates.com and realized those NPC's didn't have much ...

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I think the only problem I have with the U7 dialogue system is that there never is a feeling that a character is holding something back - with U6 and Quentin's Ghost you felt there was always something he might have in his dialogue that you just might be able to see. There is no "tension" ...

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Well, not that it counts for anything, but I'm blown away! That is very creative and must have taken some work. Congrats - can't wait to try it!

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I think it's a moot point though - you can use Exult Studio to build houses and add whatever you need - and it's a lot stronger than hack mover with the ability to create eggs and whatnot. After 10 minutes of farting around, I successfully joined all the major land masses of Serpent Isle and played ...

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Ultima: The Movie Script - First Draft Opening Credits [scene Skara Brae] Name? Job? Health? Bye! Name? Job? Health? Bye! Name? Job? Health? Bye! Name? Job? Health? Bye! Name? Job? Health? Bye! Name? Job? Health? Bye! Name? Job? Wheatpin? Mantra? Health? Bye! Name? Job? Health? Bye! Name? Job? Healt...

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Maybe they could give the carpet to Sullivan the Trickster as a quest - and you have to track him down a la Eliz and Abe. You have to undo all his tricks or something. I always thought he was one of the most imaginitive portions of U7 that made the world more real. Nobody believes you are the Avatar...

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I like the quest that takes you all over for peices approach like Gradilla mentioned - sorta like the U6 pirate map. That was a good quest. Putting the deed behind magic doors is just as good, or another example would be it is defended by a creature that is only vulnerable to a 5th level spell, only...

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I'd play it again just to see that

That would be super!

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Well, I don't think mandatory combat appeals to many people, unless it's limited to special encounters. Currently, I'm having a go at Wizardry 7, so I have an idea of how brutal constant combat can be. Wow! Either way, I'm a HUGE fan of both Ultima 7 and Fallout 1/2. I think if combat was made less ...

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Artaxerxes - ALT + K is great - I couldn't play without it! But there are non-mechanical reasons I prefer the keyring. I don't like all the clutter, the first couple of keys you have to juggle in your off hand until you get the bag (In the knights test, and not a lot mind you) By the time I fight th...

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Might be nice if you did what Origin did in U8 - the patch put a keyring in (memory failing...) the first barrel or in the top area of Mordea's castle for key management. You can only get a keyring from the commander in the SS. Wouldn't be bad to label the keys, but I would guess more people would j...

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What would be nice would be to have a social MMORPG that has a FINITE set of magic items or resources - with a shelf life of the server of 1 year or something. The players battle monsters and each other over the items - there would be some uber powerful items that make you only able to be taken out ...

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Patrick, I have all three D&D 3.5 core rulebooks. Give me the pages. Gladly - you see - on page 21 of the Players Handbook 3.5 (Classes - it has a picture of a sword on it) it does a fine job of using he or she, the character, etc. This follows to page 24 - the Barbarian (he.) On page 26 - the B...

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For your information, the gender thing is a standard in RPG core rulebooks. I can tell that you don't even pay attention to the pattern. The Player Character or NPC is always a She, and the Dungeon Master is always a He. That is a convention to prevent confusions like "yea, right... 'he has to ...

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Did you ever read Bobby the Brain: Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All the book by Bobby "the Brain" Henan - the wrestler, manager, and all around evil guy? What, nobody?! Good book, fun to read, but if you try to read it like a normal book, you'll end up with a stomach ache. Other books I would...

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Yeah - I have the second one with walkthroughs for all games including the NES version at the end. Good book, but the humor is TERRIBLE and the writing style is like a kick in the gut. I really wanted to like it, and the info is great, but man! You can find it on Amazon used, or at Half.com the used...

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Just a quick note to say the new pentagram site looks pretty sharp - very crisp and easy on the eyes.

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Knowing it's super OT, I can't resist, so please forgive me. Just need to clear up a few things. PanSola, you seemed to miss my points and put a lot of words around them, but I appreciate you responding so well thought out. Here goes: 1. I read RG's The Complete Ultima and most info on the Ultimas a...

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The reason Richard got attacked is because he went out of his way to bump people out of their "comfort zones" to force them to think about their morality - he said that himself. Of course, we know how much some of these religious types LOVE to think for themselves. And for the record I hap...

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The only thin I was looking forward to was ripping it to shreads - probably the general concensus. Even from the start it was horror inducing - reminded one of a combination Doom2/U9 (and maybe a little DaoC.) There was NO heart in that game - one could argue that U9/UO they at least tried to be ult...

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Artaxerxes - thanks.

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Talk about lending each region having their own flavor ;) That would be neat, if possible. You could give out areas based on ability, time, or desire. Twould be pretty spiffy if it came to pass. Have a city that runs by it's own desires, then the organizer could add one or two NPC's to further the p...

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Thanks for the heads up on that page, DrCode - never really looked at the full blown Files Site - just went to exult.info all the time.

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Where is the Island Patch? I looked around and couldn't find it. I think Exult Studio is great - so far I've un-landlocked every major island (you can walk from east of the Mint, to the West side of Moonshade, then north of Freedom you can walk to Monk Isle,) put up gates and walls between them, and...

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While on the subject - Yurial gave me two purple orbs - through speaking to him two times. Not a big one, I know...

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Actually, you can't use the Flux Analyzer on the sword with Arcadion in it - but you can transfer him into another object! The enchanted wig you find near Vasculio will accept the demon, but of you know what you'll end up with, don't you?

Hell Toupee!

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Hello - while waiting for 1.2, I was looking for information on compiling Exult on a MVS C+ 6.0 system, and found it (somewhere here, can't remeber where because I cut and pasted the info to a document of notes and printed that ;) It says that there is supposed to be a file EXULT.DSW in the MSVCStuf...

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Thanks! Running great with sound (by default it's turned all the way down in Kmix for KDE (oy!)) Have the ogg digital music - very, very nice. Also moved the location of the Ultima7 & Serpent directories to my home directory and did a CHOWN so I could modify them and not run as root. Pretty cool...

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OK - I have it now and understand why everything went wrong. 1. I installed it to a directory where only root can write 2. When running as root, root had it's own .exult.cfg file 3. When running, it had to create files in the gamedat folder which only root could create. 4. I should have looked at th...

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Ok - thanks everyone - I changed every instance in the cfg files to lower case - including moving ULTIMA7 to ultima7, SERPENT to serpent, STATIC to static. Now after I see the intro for either, I get: An exception occured: Error opening file /usr/games/ultima/serpent/gamedat/npc.dat errno: 2 Error D...

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The case is -

/usr/games/ultima/ULTIMA7/STATIC
/usr/games/ultima/SERPENT/STATIC

and all files in the directories are in upper case - happened when I copied them - was thinking this was the problem.

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Will do, Artaxerxes

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Symptoms: when I start the program from console I get: Exult version 1.1.10rc2 Built at: May 12 2004 13:17:06 Compile-time options: USE_EXULTSTUDIO, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT Compiler: gcc, version: 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk) Platform: Linux version 2.4.22-10mdk Exult path settings: Data : data Di...

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Ok - another question please - when I copied over my Ultima files, they were all in caps. I had to manually create an .exult.cfg file, (I copied and pasted from the Documentation) now the .exult.cfg can't find the files because of case is wrong. Easy way to change the case of my data files in linux/...

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SDL ....................... : 1.2.7 Build tools................ : yes Build ExultStudio.......... : no Now type 'make' to build Exult ------------------------------------------------- Thanks :) ps: For future reference, the packages you mentioned were found at: http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php...

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Ok - have been running fine on Win32 for quite some time but decided to give the Mandrake a try. I have the following setup: Fresh download of Exult 1.1.10.rc2 and uncompressed to /usr/games/exultsrc Complete copy of Ultima7 and SERPENT directories to /usr/games/ultima/Ultima7 and /usr/games/ultima/...

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