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Ultima 7 gold?

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 1:09 am
by thies
Good day,

I have the Ultima7 gold CD. Now, how do I get it to work in FreeBSD? I copy all files to HD, unzip what there is to unzip, point the exult.cfg to the folder and... nothing. I don't get to that fabled menu, I get no window, nothing.

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 1:30 am
by wjp
Any errors on the terminal you ran Exult from?

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 2:59 am
by thies
not really

Platform: Unknown
Exult path settings:
Data : /usr/local/share/exult
Digital music : /usr/local/share/exult/music

after which nothing tends to happen

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:08 am
by wjp
Are exult.flx, exult_bg.flx and exult_si.flx in /usr/local/share/exult ?

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:12 am
by thies
yes. both are there.

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:22 am
by wjp
Both? There should be three.

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:24 am
by thies
my bad. three.

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:40 am
by wjp
Which exult version is this and which compiler (and version) did you use to build it?

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 4:06 am
by thies
version 1.2 built with gcc 3.3.3 on freebsd 5.2

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:28 am
by thies
hm, I let it sit there for about an hour now and finally out of nowhere I get an "exult" window. Only that it's completely black.

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:53 am
by dino
A black window in SDL is usually because some filepath is incorrect, as far as I know.

Re: Ultima 7 gold?

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:08 am
by wjp
Are you familiar enough with gdb or strace or similar tools to see what exult is doing during that hour?