how do you get the games to work?
 

Hello and thank you for clicking...

Please how do i run the games? im interested in Ultima 7 and serpent isle my fav games ever!!! and also Ultima underworld and underworld 2.

so do i run a program inside the game directory? do the games dopwnload already un-packed and installed?

can anyone give me instructions on how to get this stuff working??

Josh

WOOOHOOO i got U7 and SI workin!!!! :nuts:

what program do i use for the ultima underworld games???

Josh

You use DOSBox which can be found here. I reccomend you to read our DOSBox tutorial for guidelines on how to set it up.

Other than that, Ultima Underworld 2 is ESA protected and therefore cannot be downloaded from Abandonia.

ive already downloaded number 2?!?! are you saying i wont be able to get it to work?

EDIT: My bad, seems it's not ESA protected at all. Fully downloadable.

Hi thx for the help so far...

i couldnt get dosbox to work i followed the instructions but, dosbox opens in z:\ and wont change to c drive. i amended the file to mount the drive but wont do it for some reason... :(

also, any ideas on where to put the sound files? for U7 and si

Mounting a drive doesn't automatically change to it.
To change to any drive, enter it's letter followed by a colon (no space between both) - in this case, C:

Sound files? :huh:

i tried that mate, but it tells me it dosent exist and that i need to mount it...

also having trouble with the sound files for U7, i can only see the example file to edit its wierd...

sound files yeah, when i downloaded exult the are two sound files one for U7 and the other for SI. for sound s like opening doors and when you bring your charecter sheet up.

In that case, please post an exact copy of the mount command you added to the config file.

Those are for Exult only and useless for the original games.
Exult is unable to use the SFX as they are present in the game data, and thus needs these sound packages instead.

to mount your file type command:

mount c: x:\blabla

where x:\blabla is patch to your game, on your hard drive

then that directory behaves like c:, so then you can type C:

mount C C:\DOS\CDrive
mount D D:\ -t cdrom
C:
CLS

so it looks like this...

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount C C:\DOS\CDrive
mount D D:\ -t cdrom
C:
CLS

thx for all the replys guys...

err? where do i paste that??

and what do i paste sorry?

oh i see you already made your mount, sorry i misunderstood you, i thought you don't know how to do it

anyways, if it still says that C: doesn't exist, try just opening your dosbox.exe (without lines in autoexec) and typing in:
mount C C:\DOS\CDrive
what does it say? any errors, or "Drive C is mounted as local directory C:\DOS\CDrive"?

Nothing appears wrong with the mounts in the config. But remove that CLS please - if there are any error messages shown, it would make you miss them out.

Do you make a folder named "DOS" on your C partition and one named "Cdrive" inside that, or did you just copy-paste these lines into your config? I have a distinct hunch the latter is the problem here.

ok i have

DOS [-]
- CDrive
- DOSBox-0.72
- Downloads
- Files
- ISO

all as said in the tutorial.


p.s
i got the sound files to work on U7 :nuts:

ok i got the prompt to the directory i want D:, by typing "mount c d:\uw1" in the dos prompt when i run DOSBox. now when i try and run UW1 i get...

EMS allocated
Cannot run Underworld.
Resource problem or internal error. error code A006

D:\UW1>

anyone seen this before?

i wonder how is it possible that it says D:\UW1> after it quits with the error, because you mounted your D:\UW1 as C, so it should just say C: instead. you forked up somewhere

ium using d as my games drive, c has just got system suff on it. The game and dosbox id installed in d

so it should work the same, i think...

nobody seen that error message before???

Joshua, it should NOT be giving you D:\UW1> in this error message to begin with.
Are you sure you're running Dosbox the emulator and not the so-called "dos box" command line utility?