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Ultima III - how to view the Cloth Map file?



Wow.  I finally had some free time (free time? what's that?) and checked 
out this new Ultima III thing everyone is talking about.  Man, what a 
blast from the past.  Back in my Apple II days I used to play Ultima 
pretty much all the time.  I would've kept my IIc but I had to sell it in 
order to afford my PC.  (I souped it up pretty good, by the time I sold 
it I had a 128k memory board, a ROM decoder/hacker type tool, a 20 mb 
(WOW!) hard drive, a 3.5 floppy drive...)

My extreme thanks and praise go to the Executor folks for making such a 
wonderful emulator.  The people that have been flaming it (Ragosta, etc.) 
really don't know what the @#^@#% they're talking about, IMHO.  After 
all, Executor is still version 1.99<letter><subversion number>, which 
must indicate something about its release status.  Even so, I can already 
use it as a "production" tool, writing Microsoft Word documents under 
Linux, playing with spreadsheets, handling my bank accounts with Quicken, 
and playing some of my most favored Mac games (Maelstrom, Solarian, and 
now Ultima).  Please, keep up the good work, and I'm already saving up 
the sheckles (sp?) to purchase 2.x and its upgrades when it comes out!

Anyway, to get down to the point: I would enjoy Ultima more if I were 
able to actually read some of the documentation that came with it.  AFter 
fooling around a bit, I finally figured out that I could read the spell 
lists and the U3 manual into any text editor, so I got those printed 
out.  BUT... the "Cloth map" is unfortunately a PICT file... and a 
QuickTime-compressed one at that.  Arrrgh.  None of the tools at my 
disposal were able to read it, let alone print it.

Does anyone know of any program(s) or tools available that can read such 
a file?  I don't care what environment they are written for -- I can run 
anything in Executor, Linux/FreeBSD/UNIX, and Windows 95.  And I also 
have QuickTime for Windows, so if a Windows program that requires 
QuickTime can do what I ask, I wouldn't mind using it.

Failing that, if anyone has access to a real Mac and would be willing to 
convert this graphic into something a little more accessable to me (I can 
read any of the standard image types: GIF, JPEG, Windows BMP, PCX, ...) I 
would be eternally grateful.

THANK YOU, NET for helping me out with this, and THANK YOU ARDI for a 
wonderful product that I will happily support until my last breath.  
I wish you "Qapla'!" (Success!)

Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212
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