Ultima 4 Encode & Decode

Produced by: Nodling Dragon
Website: Ultima Tech Info and Patches

Ultima 4 Encode
Ultima 4 Encode

Source code for a utility to compress Ultima 4’s game data files.


Ultima 4 Decode
Ultima 4 Decode

Source code for a utility to de-compress Ultima 4’s game data files.

These two programs allow you to de-compress (“decode”) or compress (“encode”) Ultima 4’s game data files, which have been compressed using the formerly-patented LZW algorithm.

The packages here include only the source code necessary to compile a command-line utility in each case. Interested users will have to compile the utilities themselves.

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1 Response

  1. September 4, 2009

    […] as with Nodling’s equivalent utilities for Ultima 4, these files let you decode (decompress) LZW-compressed data files that Ultima 6 uses, […]

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