Re: Decade-old Ultima puzzler

[fishern3485@cobra.uni.edu]

> I just thought of something from my miss-spent youth. When we'd play
> hours and hours of the ultima games, we always wanted a way to print
> out maps of towns you see by using the magic jewel (I think this is
> UII) but we never found one how.  Is there a way to do this without any
> special hardware? Either as a print screen of some kind or a way to
> poke through the disk files to find all the maps.
> 
> Solve a decade-old puzzler!!

I've solved that one looong ago. (and I am quite sure I'm not the
only one)  Just a matter of (1) finding the sectors on the disk
that make up the map, (2) discovering which numbers correspond to
which map feature, (3) deciding which you want as crossable/non crossable,
and (4) making the appropriate conversions to a hires picture using some
BASIC and a sector read call.

I've got a black&white map of Ultima IV and V, and somewhere a huge
map bigger than the felt one that is a bit more detailed. (still B&W
but more than one pixel per map square)


Now a (slightly) bigger challenge is to decode the text stored on all
the disks in Ultima V.  Hint hint: "undelete"   ;-)   ;-)   ;-)

-- 
Nathan Fisher
  FISHERN3485@COBRA.UNI.EDU