Ultima 4 Encode & Decode

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

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

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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