Produced by: Nodling Dragon
Website: Ultima Tech Info and Patches
Releases:
* [drain file 465 url u6encode source] ([drain file 465 size])
* [drain file 464 url u6decode source] ([drain file 464 size])

Much as with the utilities for Ultima 4, these files let you decode (decompress) LZW-compressed data files that Ultima 6 uses, and then re-encode them in a way that Ultima 6 can read (although not with the LZW algorithm, which was patented at the time these utilities were written). Nodling Dragon points out that when one uses the encoder, the resultant file will be a bit larger than the equivalent “original” file, for this reason.

NOTE: the packages here include only the source code necessary to compile a command-line utility in each case.

Produced by: Nodling Dragon
Website: Ultima Tech Info and Patches
Release:
* [drain file 454 url u4encode source] ([drain file 454 size])
* [drain file 452 url u4decode source] ([drain file 452 size])

These two files 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.

NOTE: the packages here include only the source code necessary to compile a command-line utility in each case.