New Ultima Fan Project: Ultimate Ultima Map Viewer

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Several years ago, Yragael created a DOS-based tool that allowed him to traverse the maps of Ultima 3, 4, and 5. He very kindly offered to share both the program and its source code with the Ultima Codex recently, noting that it runs well enough under DOSBox.

As you can see in the images of the UUMV above, there appears to also be a zoom feature in the program.

You can find a a compliled UUMV binary and the source code at the newly-minted project entry I’ve created for it.

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  1. Natreg Dragon says:
    November 5, 2014 at 1:52 am

    This reminds me that I got a Ultima IV dungeon map viewer I programmed back in 2004 that can open all dungeon maps and show all rooms with monsters, as well as the changes the switches do to the layouts of the room. I also programmed on May an Ultima I map and tile viewer.

    I wanted to program an Ultima map viewer for all Ultimas, but I probably won’t get to do it anytime soon.

    They are very rudimentary and were just tests (the code is horrible in both of them) to learn a few things but I could probably send them to you including their source code (Ultima I uses .NET and C# and Ultima IV uses C++ and Allegro).