u7atari 0.2.0 (test release)

The second test release of Ultima VII: The Black Gate (ULTIMA7.PRG) and Serpent Isle (SERPENT.PRG) for the Atari TT030 and Falcon030, built on Jamie Blanks' (Kitrinx's) decompilation, Ultima7_Decomp.

No game data is included: copy the STATIC folder from the DOS game (the GOG release works). README.TXT in the zip covers installing, options and controls.

Changes since 0.1.0:

• Runs on a 68060 (CT60/CT63, the MiSTer's Falcon core). 0.1.0 stopped there with a black screen.
• About 15–25% more frames a second on a Falcon030: faster screen conversion, no wait for the vertical blank, and a moving mouse pointer redraws only its own rows.
• Black Gate: the music no longer hiccups when a sound effect's instrument is sent to the MT-32.
• The ATW800/2 graphics card on the TT (HDMI output), and --no-card to leave it alone. Tested only under emulation so far.
• Quitting no longer crashes on the way out, and the question whether to leave says TOS instead of DOS.
• When the game had to run MAPROM itself (booted with Control held), New Game showed the version and quit. Fixed.
• --fps counts the frames shown and writes U7FPS.TXT on quitting, for comparing machines. A Falcon030 at 50 MHz shows about 5–6 frames a second walking around.

Runs on a TT030 with TT-RAM or a Falcon030 (an accelerated or 68060 Falcon recommended), from the TOS desktop or under FreeMiNT with XaAES. Needs about 6 MB free; no FPU needed. Music on a Roland MT-32 or compatible on MIDI OUT, or a General MIDI synth with --gm. Saved games are compatible with the DOS version, and Exult saves can be carried over with EXULT2U7.PY.

Please report what you find, with your machine, memory, TOS version and synth.

u7atari 0.1.0 (test release)

Superseded by 0.2.0: this version crashes at once on a 68060, and New Game fails when the game has to run MAPROM itself.

A test release of Ultima VII: The Black Gate (ULTIMA7.PRG) and Serpent Isle (SERPENT.PRG) for the Atari TT030 and Falcon030, built on Jamie Blanks' (Kitrinx's) decompilation, Ultima7_Decomp.

No game data is included: copy the STATIC folder from the DOS game (the GOG release works). README.TXT in the zip covers installing, options and controls.

• Runs on a TT030 with TT-RAM or a Falcon030 (an accelerated Falcon recommended); needs about 6 MB free; no FPU needed.
• Music on a Roland MT-32 or compatible on MIDI OUT, or a General MIDI synth with --gm. Speech through the machine's own sound.
• Saved games are compatible with the DOS version.
• Games saved under Exult (Black Gate or Serpent Isle) can be carried over with EXULT2U7.PY (Python 3, on a PC).

Most testing so far has been under Hatari; on real machines only the Falcon has run it. Please report what you find, with your machine, memory, TOS version and synth.