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Nuvie - An Engine for Ultima6, Martian Dreams and Savage Empire.
http://nuvie.sourceforge.net/

Version 0.5 


What is Nuvie
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Nuvie (Pronounced New-Vee) is an open source engine for Origin's games
Ultima 6, Martian Dreams and The Savage Empire. It uses the original data files
from the games. Nuvie currently runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It should
be able to run on any platform that is supported by the SDL library.

We are currently focusing on Ultima 6 we hope to fully support Martian Dreams
and Savage Empire at a later date.

Compiling Nuvie
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Nuvie requires LibSDL to compile. http://www.libsdl.org/

Unix (various)

Compiling should (hopefully) be as simple as

./configure
make

Win32

Nuvie can be compiled for win32 using MinGW


Using Nuvie
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Config
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Nuvie can be configured by editing the configuration file.

The config file will be automatically created the first time you launch
Nuvie on Windows and Mac OS X environments.

On Windows Vista/7/8 the config file (nuvie.cfg) is located at
\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Nuvie\

On Windows 2000/XP the config file (nuvie.cfg) is located at
\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Nuvie\

On Windows NT4 the config file (nuvie.cfg) is located at
<windir>\Profiles\username\Application Data\Nuvie\

On Windows 95/98/ME the config file (nuvie.cfg) lives alongside
the nuvie.exe file.

On Mac OS X the configuration file is called "Nuvie Preferences" and lives in
the following directory.
"~/Library/Preferences/Nuvie Preferences"

Linux users will need to manually create a config file in either "./nuvie.cfg"
or "~/.nuvierc"

A sample config file has been included nuvie.cfg.sample

Keyboard commands
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All the keyboard commands from the original game should be avilable in Nuvie.

Additional keys.

Quit. 'q'
Loading/Saving games. 's'.

Mouse
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It is possible to drag and drop items from your inventory.

FM-Towns U6
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Nuvie supports the english language speech and sfx from the FM-Towns version
of Ultima VI. You can enable FM-Towns support with the following options in the
config file.

Set "config/ultima6/townsdir" to the location of your FM-Towns U6 data files.
Set "config/ultima6/sfx" to "towns".

Scalers
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Nuvie currently supports the following scalers.

Note! These scaler names are case-sensitive in the config file.

Point
Interlaced
2xSaI
Super2xSaI
Scale2x
SuperEagle
BiLinear
BiLinearPlus
BilinearInterlaced
BilinearHalfInterlaced
BilinearQuarterInterlaced

Helping
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We are always looking for people to help out with the project. If you feel you
can help out in any way please contact us.

Contact
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Email: efry <AT> users.sourceforge.net
IRC: #nuvie on freenode.net
Message board: http://nuvie.sourceforge.net/phorum

Credits and Thanks
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See the "AUTHORS" file for info on the Nuvie team.

Nuvie would not have been possible without help from the following people.

J. P. Morris aka DOUG the Eagle <[email protected]>
http://www.it-he.org/ultima6.htm

Rackne <[email protected]>
http://www.graf.torun.pl/~rackne/u6like.html

Nodling <[email protected]>
http://www.geocities.com/nodling/ultima/ultima.html

Jim Ursetto <[email protected]>
http://3e8.org/hacks/ultima6/

The exult team.
http://exult.sourceforge.net/

Pentagram.
http://pentagram.sourceforge.net/

ScummVM.
http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/

Everyone on freenode #nuvie

And of course Lord British along with all the talented people at Origin.