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Ultima 7, an RPG from the early 1990's, still has a huge following.
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But, being a DOS game with a very nonstandard memory manager, it
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is difficult to run it on the latest computers. Exult is a project
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to create an Ultima 7 game engine that runs on modern operating
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systems, capable of using the data and graphics files that come
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with the game.
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Exult is written in C++ and runs on, at least, Linux, Mac OS X and
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Windows using the SDL library to make porting to other platforms
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relatively easy. The current version supports all of "Ultima 7:
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The Black Gate" and "Ultima 7 part 2: The Serpent Isle", allowing
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you to finish both games. This is only possible due to the work
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done by other fans who have decoded the various Ultima 7 data files,
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especially Gary Thompson, Maxim Shatskih, Jakob Shonberg, and Wouter
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Dijkslag.
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Exult aims to let those people who own Ultima 7 (copyright 1993)
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play the game on modern hardware, in as close to (or perhaps even
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surpassing) its original splendor as is possible. You need to own
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"Ultima 7: The Black Gate" and/or "Ultima 7: Serpent Isle" and
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optionally the add-ons (not required to run) in order to use Exult,
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and we encourage you to buy a legal copy.
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