In the spirit of providing small but more frequent updates as progress is made, here is another – smaller update.
It turns out that I missed some code for region loading, so I’ve been filling in the blanks for the last few days.
The core missing functionality was the “map table” which contains simple data for all the locations inside a specific region – loading using the following function:
LoadMapTable(int region) – which loads data from “MAPTABLE.XXX”, where XXX = region number.
Its part of functionality that loads a new region of the map – such as the Daggerfall province (region 17). First it frees all the data from the old region then loads the maptable, then applies flags which are supplied from MAPSAVE.XXX, again XXX = region number. Interestingly MAPSAVE files are contained inside “mapsave.sav” which turns out to have the same archive format as the BSA files. Why not just call it mapsave.BSA then? I have no idea, lol. Anyway its a bit more complicated then that – but you get the idea. 
Now that the map table is in place, several missing variables can be filled out allowing me to completely finish the Cell and Region loading code, which was only partially complete before. Which means that tomorrow I can go back to working on the actual use of that data.
Here’s some useful code for you:
** func_13DF8F(newRegion) //eax
LoadMapTable(int region) //eax
*************************************************/
push ebp
mov ebp,esp
push ebx,ecx,edx,esi,edi
sub esp,00000004
mov [ebp-0018],eax <- Loads the "region" into a local variable
mov eax,[ebp-0018] <- Copies the local variable back to the register
call 00133DD49 <- Calls the useful function: _LoadMapTable(region)
lea esp,[ebp-0014]
pop edi,esi,edx,ecx,ebx,ebp
ret
Things like this in the Daggerfall code just make me shake my head. 
