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Notes and optional stuff.
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XU4 Upgrade Note
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If you upgraded from xu4-20130612_svn to 1.2.1 or later, your old
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settings from ~/.xu4 will no longer be read. You can try:
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mkdir -p ~/.config/xu4
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cp -a ~/.xu4/* ~/.config/xu4
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...but there's no guarantee the new engine will read the old config or
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savegames (not tested, YMMV).
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Slackware Upgrade Note
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If you upgraded from 14.1 to 14.2, your old ~/.xu4/xu4rc needs to be
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edited, to disable XML validation (otherwise the game won't start).
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Edit the file manually, or use this:
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sed -i '/validateXml/s,1,0,' ~/.config/xu4/xu4rc
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PDF Manuals
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Some of the documentation in this package is in Microsoft Word format. To
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read it, you can use calligra... or just live with the text-only versions
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(also included in this package). These are the manuals for the original
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game, and unlike most modern games, you really do need to read them to
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have any chance of completing Ultima IV. The text files and Word docs
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contain all the information needed to play the game.
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However, the text and MS Word manuals don't really capture the
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flavor of the original manuals: they're just the content, without the
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presentation. If you want a more authentic retro-gaming experience,
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you should install the PDF manuals. To do this, download the file
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ultima4_scanned_docs.zip and place it in the SlackBuild directory,
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before running the script.
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URL: https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/src/ultima4_scanned_docs.zip
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md5sum: c6be37b7028d6f7b56843a73517a5c31
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The PDF docs aren't listed in the .info file because they're fairly large,
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and not needed just to play the game.
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Running without PulseAudio
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Some of us still prefer not to use PulseAudio. For xu4, there's no
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option for ALSA or SDL audio. To get sound without PulseAudio, install
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apulse, then run xu4 as "apulse xu4" from a terminal. If you like,
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you can edit the .desktop file to make it launch this way from the
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GUI, too.
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