Yup, that's the version I have :D Seems I have to run the game without music as well, as the game crashes suddenly and without warning or error message if I have even MIDI music on. Oh well, luckily I have a good CD collection :)

BTW: Just got blown up by Beren for trying to steal his obsidian coins :D

Yes, Beren will teleport in and blow you up if you steal from anyone in town and get caught. The blacksmith ratted me out when I tried to steal a scimitar and BOOM! Pieces of avatar everywhere.

I'm having a problem with the video now. It didn't start until fairly late in the game and I'm not sure if it's supposed to be part of the game because you have to sacrifice your sight after you become a theurgist (Nice, huh?) The screen periodically flashes and the colors turn gray. When someone gets around the point where you go to Daemon's Crag, can you post and let me know if you are getting this as well? I think it has to be a bug because it's so bad that it gives me a headache. Thanks.

I almost finished U8 back in the nineties, (got stuck in Demon's crag with the pentacle spells..) and I sure can't remember that... sounds like a bug to me, but I can't be 100% certain.

i have the original game (cd version). the first time i launch it under dosbox it works perfectly, then every time i try to launch the game again it says that there is an incomplete installation and quit. there is someone who can help me? :help:

well... i say only another thing.. Ultima 8 is the best
you know... it was my first rpg :D

ok.. reading all post i found that i have to launch u8 the first time under dos. i try but the program quits for an "abnormal error" or something like that.
ah... my boot disk was made with your system_disk.exe...
Any clues?? :help: :help: :help:

I love this game. I never got very far when I first played it years and years ago. I believe our old computer crashed while I was searching out the necromancers.

Then I managed to get it working on our win98 machine, only thing was, it would lock up when Lothian was being killed, and the screen shook, etc etc. Never could get past there.

Now I have a very nice machine, and the game works grand with dosbox, only problem is that its still locking up at the same place. :(

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Do you play an own version of you? Download the patch for Ultima 8 from Origin/EA from this site: Phyton.dk
Maybe then the game will be able to proceed at the point with Lothian. You'll need to start the game anew after the patch, though.

I've been playing in DosBox. Seems to work good at around 10000 cpu cycles. At less cycles, obviously it runs slower. What's odd is that at higher cycles, it also slows down. Probably not enough resources on my machine to go any higher. I just tweak the cycles until the music/sound effects don't stutter.
** Little spoiler if you haven't played the Ultimas **
Ahhh but I have to mention one thing! In the review, you state:
"Avatar is the character you have been playing since Ultima I."
Shame on you! Avatar is the character you have been playing since the end of Ultima IV! In Ultima I-IV, he was called The Stranger, and only at the very end of Ultima IV did he become the Avatar! I'm shocked! LOL

I've got a question I haven't seen covered here yet...

I'm using Dosbox to try to get U8 running, and it's all fine and well until I actually try to play the game. When I try to run U8, I get this error message, "this game cannot be run in DOS mode."

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I'm running Dosbox on OSX and have piles of everything I should have piles of... any thoughts?

U8 was a disappointment compared to U7s. I actually finished the game back then without patch! U know.. with the crazy jumping. Looking forward to when Pentagram finishes.

I don't think most of us have experience running U8 under Mac. :bye: