Ultima VII Part 1 - The Black Gate + Forge of Virtue (1992)

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It has been suggested we apply this patch: https://github.com/JohnGlassmyer/UltimaHacks

I am not familiar enough to advise on if this should be added as an alternate option or overwrite the base game. From people that have responded to my queries they all say they use it.

There is also https://sirjohn.de/en/ultima7/ultima-7-nitpickers-delight/ which is a bit more clear cut to me in that it should be added at least as an alternate choice. It also mentions the above UltimaHacks as included so probably covers both of these patches in one go for The Black Gate.

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patched

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As there is no obvious way to tell, we should probably add a user note to the launch bat informing that UltimaHacks has been installed for the quality of life improvements and to press 'Alt+k' in game for a list of the new commands and features that are available.

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noted

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There is a modern font for both Ultima VII Games. I much prefer it because I can actually read what the game wants to tell me.

Unreadable

Readable

To get it you have to replace the fonts.vga in /static/ with the serif one from here. It is maybe best to make it a user choice.

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done

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I know we havent had an Ultima bug in awhile and unfortunately I dont have any new ones that may require 5 different user questions or starting the whole setup from scratch. I do however have a homemade issue from the last change in Ultima VII Part 1. The font menu choice in run.bat is currently:

if errorlevel = 4 goto quit, when it should be if errorlevel = 4 goto font

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they should all be changed to "quit"