The Ultima 7 Wizard
Produced by: Olivier Marcoux
Website: U7-Wizard
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Before there was Exult Studio, there was the Ultima 7 Wizard. This program allows for the editing of maps, scenery, and objects of Ultima 7 and Serpent Isle. As well, it allows you to browse the characters and portraits from both games, and to listen to the sounds and music in the game (including dialogues).
The Wizard download also includes the program’s source code. Olivier Marcoux also included technical reference and internal format documentation for the Ultima 7 game files.
If we were at a WWE event, the crowd would spontaneously start chanting, “Holy shit, holy shit…”. I just read the first page of his site and saw the screenshots…Oliver is a great man to bring this to us and open source it. Greater insight into the way the game data was integrated may help other projects too.
Talk about under the radar… This is the first time I’ve heard of U7-Wizard.
Which is kind of funny, since this application is actually pretty old, and has arguably been superseded by Exult Studio. Heck, I think this project might even predate Exult.
Oh man, I remember this! Indeed it is -very- old. I remember someone once created an extra island on britannia with it, which could be downloaded.