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- Subject: Ultima III - how to view the Cloth Map file?
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- From: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 05:40:10 -0800 (PST)
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- Wow. I finally had some free time (free time? what's that?) and checked
- out this new Ultima III thing everyone is talking about. Man, what a
- blast from the past. Back in my Apple II days I used to play Ultima
- pretty much all the time. I would've kept my IIc but I had to sell it in
- order to afford my PC. (I souped it up pretty good, by the time I sold
- it I had a 128k memory board, a ROM decoder/hacker type tool, a 20 mb
- (WOW!) hard drive, a 3.5 floppy drive...)
-
- My extreme thanks and praise go to the Executor folks for making such a
- wonderful emulator. The people that have been flaming it (Ragosta, etc.)
- really don't know what the @#^@#% they're talking about, IMHO. After
- all, Executor is still version 1.99<letter><subversion number>, which
- must indicate something about its release status. Even so, I can already
- use it as a "production" tool, writing Microsoft Word documents under
- Linux, playing with spreadsheets, handling my bank accounts with Quicken,
- and playing some of my most favored Mac games (Maelstrom, Solarian, and
- now Ultima). Please, keep up the good work, and I'm already saving up
- the sheckles (sp?) to purchase 2.x and its upgrades when it comes out!
-
- Anyway, to get down to the point: I would enjoy Ultima more if I were
- able to actually read some of the documentation that came with it. AFter
- fooling around a bit, I finally figured out that I could read the spell
- lists and the U3 manual into any text editor, so I got those printed
- out. BUT... the "Cloth map" is unfortunately a PICT file... and a
- QuickTime-compressed one at that. Arrrgh. None of the tools at my
- disposal were able to read it, let alone print it.
-
- Does anyone know of any program(s) or tools available that can read such
- a file? I don't care what environment they are written for -- I can run
- anything in Executor, Linux/FreeBSD/UNIX, and Windows 95. And I also
- have QuickTime for Windows, so if a Windows program that requires
- QuickTime can do what I ask, I wouldn't mind using it.
-
- Failing that, if anyone has access to a real Mac and would be willing to
- convert this graphic into something a little more accessable to me (I can
- read any of the standard image types: GIF, JPEG, Windows BMP, PCX, ...) I
- would be eternally grateful.
-
- THANK YOU, NET for helping me out with this, and THANK YOU ARDI for a
- wonderful product that I will happily support until my last breath.
- I wish you "Qapla'!" (Success!)
-
- Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212
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