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Notes and optional stuff: Music, enhanced graphics, and PDF manuals.
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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,' ~/.xu4/xu4rc
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Music
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To hear the in-game music, you'll need a set of MIDI patches, either the
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eawpats or freepats package from slackbuilds.org (make sure you set up
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timidity.cfg correctly). These can be installed after the fact (no need
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to rebuild xu4 after installing them). The timidity package itself isn't
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required (xu4 uses SDL_mixer to play back the music).
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Enhanced Graphics
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By default, the script will build a package that uses the graphics from
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the original PC/DOS version of the game. If you'd like to use the
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upgraded graphics from the Ultima IV Upgrade Project, download the file
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u4upgrad.zip and place it in the same directory as the SlackBuild script,
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before running it. The upgrade can be downloaded here:
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URL: http://www.moongates.com/u4/upgrade/files/u4upgrad.zip
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md5sum: 4ce9c9cd9dab111275e0ebfde7a482c4
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Homepage: http://www.moongates.com/u4/upgrade/Upgrade.htm
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The graphics upgrade isn't listed in the .info file because it isn't
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required to play the game, and also because some users will prefer the
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original CGA-style graphics.
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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 KWord... 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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