Slightly OT: "programmer's playground" in U8

[Andrea B. Previtera]

Once, I remember I was binary editing u8 to figure out some things, and I found this reference to a "Programmer's playground".
Any hint on what's that? I thought to some zone just like the castle of marvels in U7b

[Colourless]

The Programmer's Playground is the name for Map 0. That map is a special map that all the NPCs are stored in. There's nothing particularly special about it, unless you are a programmer.

-Colourless Dragon

[SnowyThing]

You mean like the 'House of the Dead' in Ultima VII Serpent Isle? (Or was that in Black Gate?) By House of the Dead, I mean where all the NPC's were standing... in a house.... like they are dead.
When I saw that I was like... :O

~Snowy

[IgnitusDragonn]

U8 and U7 have different houses of the dead. The U8 map was complete right? I mean, no weird tiled places under mountains like in Serpent Isle, but completely black as in Black Gate. I figured U8 had different maps or something. I haven't even messed w/ U8 as far as honestly knowing goes...

[SnowyThing]

Ahh.. I remember using the cheat function in Ultima 8 just once. It appears that each place (Tenebrae) (the wizards house) and (the dungeons) are their own map. I tried hopping over the mountains, but I just got a weird tile dragging effect. Such like there isn't a graphic there, so it drags whatever present one on it.

~me

[Colourless]

Ultima 8's world is made up of a series of maps. Each maps is a different area.

For example,
Map 3 = Docks
Map 4 = Fisherman's Reef
Map 5 = East Road
Map 6 = Cemetary
Map 7 = Herdsman's Valley
Map 8 = Plateau
Map 12 = Daemon's Crag
Map 39 = West Tenebrae
Map 40 = Central Tenebrae
Map 41 = East Tenebrae

[Soule]

I used to teleport by using map numbers(through cheat) but i remembered it was disabled after the easy patch.