The Drunken Lizard Pub

Unless the targeting mechanics is changed to have multiple target areas (head, arms, torso, legs, etc.), I would prefer the armour system be changed to be just a single slot. Armour protection and coverage will be determined by the type/style of armour you are using raging from a simple vest to full ...

Of course, if I remember correctly: Baldur's Gate, for example, didn't allow you to run, either, nor did the Ultima series I don't think.
Ultima 7 - The Black Gate & Serpents Isle had 3 movement speeds depending on how far away the pointer/cursor was from the Avatar.

Can't draw maps too well ...

Could we settle on doing a Windows-N thing (Windows w/o IE). Code the program in such a way that in the absence of the datapak ZIP file, look for the datapak folder. The datapak folder will have just have blank place holder files in place of the copyrighted music.

Alternately, have a datapak folder ...

Eschalon seems to looking for libopenal.so. Some distros may use different names such as Fedora 13 uses libopenal.so.1 (note the .1). Just symlink your current openal library as libopenal.so and things should work.

I too run F13_64 and didn't have sound when running the demo/trial. A little strace latter shows that eschalon is looking for libopenal.so in a few places. However, F13 uses libopenal.so.1 (note the .1) as the default symlink to libopenal.so.1.12.854 (the current openal at the time of this writing ...