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Matthew Montchalin wrote on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 04:03 AM UTC:
I just dropped by to see if my opponent had made a move, and when I clicked
the newest implementation of Ultima (that's Baroque to the rest of the
world), I was greeted with some kind of 'abstract' representations of
the chess pieces.

No matter what I clicked, I couldn't get the original 'staunton' style
of chess pieces back.

I tried selecting the 'chess motif' that was supposed to be available,
but then after I clicked 'view' I got stuck at move 0.  But the fact is,
we are around 6 moves into the game.  It appears that the most recent
innovation (or innovator) in the Game Courier must like the 'abstract'
representations of the pieces.  But I don't.  I prefer instead the
Staunton design, as that is what is most historically accurate.

Help!

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 02:54 PM UTC:
It appears that your opponent, who is the one who started this game,
prefers David Howe's Alternate set. This is not the same as the Abstract
set. When I changed the set to Motif and clicked View, the position
remained the same. It did not revert to the starting position, though the
dropdown box with the moves now said 'Starting Position'. This is
because each time you click View, it moves forward in the list to the next
move, and there is no next move to view after the last move.

Matthew Montchalin wrote on Tue, Jul 11, 2006 09:42 PM UTC:
The 'v' command works better now.

As you observed, it kept reverting back to some kind of an 'abstract' or
'alfaerie' font, instead of the user-selectable font.  I'm glad you
fixed it.  It was getting frustrating having the thing revert back to that
weird font, over and over again.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Jul 11, 2006 11:26 PM UTC:
I didn't fix anything. I just determined and noted that there wasn't any
real problem.

Matthew Montchalin wrote on Wed, Jul 12, 2006 01:16 AM UTC:
I accurately described the problem; it existed; the problem appears to have
gone away.

It is unfortunate that your experiences were not the same.

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