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The intermittent hang at the start should be fixed in the latest snapshot.

I might have fixed this last night (probably too late for today's snapshot). I only tested a little, but conversations in SI do seem to start now. The beginning of the game still shows a bug, in that sometimes it works (Iolo talks to you), and sometimes it doesn't (game hangs).

Wow, that is pretty. Is the sky a fixed image, or is it 3D too (ie, do the clouds move)?

I think that used to work, so maybe it's broken for the same reason as some other things at present.

Me to:-( Maybe I'll look into it today, although I don't want to mess up what Marzo's been working on.

If you want to run the original U7, try DOSBOX. WINE is for windows programs.

Sorry that we can't be helpful, but I don't think any of us developers has that phone. It's certainly odd that BG works but SI doesn't, since they're the same executable. Maybe Exult is running low on memory, since SI, I believe, does use more space.

I think it's fixed now.

Oops:-( I'll try to fix this soon.

I'll take a look tonight. Are you saving everything (including the current game) before you exit?

"BTW, I dislike mmo/whatevers with a passion. I don't subscribe to the subscription theory.

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Same here. I rarely play games at all anymore. Real-life hobbies are taking up all my time.

There's a review of Richard Garriott's new game, "Tabula Rosa" on slashdot today:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... 16/1620212

Hey, how'd you do that so quickly? I thought it would be a big project.

The Avatar's movement looks like Michael Jackson's "moon-walking":-) Even if you fix it, it might be amusing to have it turn on when he's walking on snow in SI.

There's now a 'quality' field you can set in the 'locate' box, so you can search for a key or door with a given quality. (But you still have to first choose the type of item you're looking for.)

Oops, that wasn't right. I don't want to set the 'painted' flag. Instead, I just want Exult to paint when 'dirty'. There's a comment on the original condition about avoiding 'jumping walking', but I don't notice any jerkiness without it.

"The real issue is that everything in Exult (except the audio subsystem) is synchronized to the game clock's "ticks"..." I think the reason for that is to keep multiple animations like the shoreline tiles in sync. But it looks like the frame-animators synchronize themselves by ro...

What should we do differently then? Are we limited by the 'palette rotation', which modern games don't have? I wonder what it would take, assuming it's possible, for Exult to work like a modern 3D game (without the actual 3D, of course). It's been a long time since I've worked on the core engine (or...

I've been seeing slow-loading and connection timeouts for several months now. Maybe the server is overloaded.

Andrea: That's a pretty clever idea. The network code used by ES would have to change so that it uses a port instead of a file socket, and we'd have to allow ES to work while the game is still in play. Plus, Exult would have to be running on both machines, on 'A' for playing and on 'B' for editing. ...

Have fun with it. That's the beauty of open-source.

As others have pointed out, this will not be easy. But there is 'network' code already in Exult for communicating with ExultStudio, and it's in the 'server' directory. Note that it's very Unix-oriented and assumes that the client (ES) and Exult are on the same machine, but only because that's what I...

No, not yet. I can see how that could be useful.

Thanks!

Is this with the latest snapshot, or 1.2? Could you submit a bug report with a savegame just before you try to use the carriage? If we can duplicate the crash, we can fix it.

I remember thinking the same thing when I first played Ultima7, but I got used to it. Eventually, it becomes part of the game's charm.

We ought to get rid of the use of hash_map. I might do that tomorrow.

Pretty amazing guy. (Pretty rich, too!) Thanks for the link.

Looks like I broke the penalty for starving about 6 years ago. It should be fixed now, but I didn't have time to do much testing.

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll take a look. It's supposed to work like you've said.

Thanks for the link. It's great to read about all those Ultima legends getting together.

You should be able to assign to it inside a function. Is it possible there's something else named 'test'?

I think we've all wondered this at times. It's the same for adventure games: Why doesn't anyone create new titles like the old LucasArts and Sierra games? For the large companies, the answer is probably that they know that those games won't be big sellers. Games have gone mainstream, and eye-candy i...

I've never played a game with a conversation logger, and one thing I've been wondering is about how smart they are. In other words, do they just store the important points, or do they store everything. I'm thinking of all the times in U7 where you get lectured about the Fellowship, and think it woul...

That would be a fun, but challenging project:-) I guess we'll have to see. But a conversation logger would certainly generate a lot of data.

Thanks, Marzo!

I think I was getting that glibc 'double-free' error on my Linux box a while back after upgrading glibc; and the problem went away after I upgraded (or maybe rebuilt) SDL.

"Besides, play_sound_effect is only ever called if the object is not already playing a sound effect." Yes, I didn't notice that part. Still, it looked like it was getting called repeatedly with 'repeat' set, so that the mixer was getting more and more streams to mix if you just stood there...

I see the problem, but maybe Marzo should take a look so that I don't break what he was working on. (Technical: play_sound_effect is getting called repeatedly with repeat == -1, which means the same sound is getting repeated indefinitely and its buffers aren't freed. I notice that in 'animate.h', re...

It's okay to post this here, although you could have also posted to the Exult mailing-list. I'd be interested in applying, but I don't know if our project is relevant. I can see how playing a game like Ultima 7 could benefit players emotionally, but we cannot claim credit for the game, which was cre...

Thanks for the report. We need to look at what's happening with sound-effects. I'm assuming this is a fairly recent bug.

Thanks for asking about this, but we currently aren't taking donations. This is partly because we don't want to appear to be making money from Ultima 7, which we don't own the rights to, and partly because we haven't had any real expenses other than computers. I'd be open to changing this policy if ...

Start by browsing the "Studio" link at the top of this page. Generally, you can make changes to the graphics, such as changing faces, from within ExultStudio. But books and conversations involving writing your own 'usecode' scripts, which takes a bit more education.

Yes, Exult is bloated.

Secondly, though, I remember my disk thrashing constantly as I walked around in the original.

We should look into memory consumption, but it is very tedious.

I just put a fix in a few minutes ago (after midnight here), so you should see it soon. Luckily, it even appears to fix your savegame.

While ExultStudio can be fussy, you ought to be able to use expack or ipack, which are fairly simple and portable command-line tools. Can you provide some information about how they are failing?

Thanks. Glad you're enjoying it. What's a Blackberry platform? (I thought it was for email...)

Sounds like a bug that those usecode #'s are coming up, since those are for NPC's which are already part of U7. I wonder if there are corrupted files in your 'patch' directory.

Ok, now I remember. Yes, it was crashing on Linux too. It was trivial to fix.

Sorry I couldn't find the original post about this. Exult was crashing consistently when audio was disabled, but this is fixed now.

Could you submit a bug report with your savegame, with a brief description of what to do to get a crash? I'm hoping we can use that to find and fix the problem.

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