Exult 1.2 review
DownloadUltima 7, an RPG from the early 1990's, still has a huge following.
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Ultima 7, an RPG from the early 1990's, still has a huge following. But, being a DOS game with a very non-standard memory manager, it is difficult to run it on the latest computers. Exult is a project to create an Ultima 7 game engine that runs on modern operating systems, capable of using the data and graphics files that come with the game.
First you need to get Ultima 7. Either you own it already, or you buy it somewhere. Then you must install it on a DOS/Windows machine in order to get the data file. A good way is to use a PC emulator for this, e.g. Virtual PC, Real PC or SoftWindows.
Note that the Ultima Collection already contains an installed copy of Ultima 7. (In the Ultima7/ directory.)
From the Ultima7 folder on your PC, copy the STATIC sub folder to the folder that contains the ExultMac application.
What's New:
Support for more than 1024 shapes and 2048 global flags
In-game journal (press 'n' for notebook
Support SI intrinsics in BG
New art contributed by Crysta the Elf and Berty Zhang
Colourless has integrated Pentagram's audio subsystem in Exult:
Real MT32 support
MT32 Emulation support
Fluidsynth support
It is Better(tm).
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