Help please
 

i cant get ultima 7 to work on my vista pc. It says that there is a piece of that it is in protected mode and i have to dismove the offending program. it then says that it will work if i put it on a floppy disk but my computer cant take floppys can u please help me ( i have tried it with several different games and they all say the samething:
"somthing has put your system in protected mode Ultima VII - the Black gates cannot tun in this mode demove the offending software and put your system in real mo to play the game"
(that was the error message that pops up)
this message is then followed by the system offering to put the game on a floppy
please help i would like to play dos games

All you need to run dosgames: DOSBOX

i already have dosbox. dosbox is the system that gave me the error message

ps. im also using version 0.74 if that changes anything (thats the dosbox version im using)

Mount lines?
Inputs to run the game?
Include a screenshot of that error screen.

[img]C:\Users\Tatelet\Pictures\dos error message1[/img]

first error message

[img]http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=18736&id=100000941355977#!/photo.php?fbid=178724208835623&set=a.1175484349532 01.6693.100000941355977[img]
real first image

I moved your first message thinking it was a bot spam attack. :/

Unregistered users are not allowed to post images. That's why we can't see it.

What are you trying to show us?

I think I see the problem here, the version from this site wont work in Dosbox without running the right file. Just to be safe, make sure you have not just mounted the U7 folder but the folder that U7 is in. Then you need to run Dosbox.bat.

Emjoy your game...and sign up for an account here.

ok i have an account now heres the image i tried to show before
[img]http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=18736&id=100000941355977#!/photo.php?fbid=178724208835623&set=a.1175484349532 01.6693.100000941355977[\img]

This should work
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...00000941355977

Read my above post and Facebook and your computer paths with img tags around them wont show images. Use Photobucket or Imageshack to host the file and then they will give you links to use on most forums.

My above post should allow you to play the game.

[quote] I think I see the problem here, the version from this site wont work in Dosbox without running the right file. Just to be safe, make sure you have not just mounted the U7 folder but the folder that U7 is in. Then you need to run Dosbox.bat.[quote]
either that didnt work or a .bat file type is not a windows batch file
ps. how do i get my avatar to appear (not trying to go off topic)

Of course it isn't a windows batch file...it's a dos one. It needs to be run in Dosbox.

Go to My Settings>Edit Avatar (its on the list to the left) and upload one.

ok thanks for the avatar info
i don't see any files called .bat heres an image of my u7 and dosbox files
http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/...afilter=images

Did you get U7 from here? The folder hosted on our site includes a file named Dosbox.bat inside the U7 folder, this runs the game (it has settings for Memory and cycles I think).

So get the game from our site and run that file in Dosbox.

I did get it from this site but ill redownload it just to be sure

do u mean a .bat or .dat

http://i312.photobucket.com/albums/l...elmet86/u7.png

I just downloaded this from the site. Can you see the file name Dosbox.bat. You need to open Dosbox, mount the folder that the U7 folder is in and run that file.

:doh:
1. that is a windows batch file only mines on vista so it dosnt have 514.exe or you.png it has the file name then its type eg. 514 application or
you png file
2. i redownloaded it and the only difference (appart from the os we use) was that yours was 66kb whule mine was 1kb do you know why this may be?

I use Vista. And while windows thinks it is a windows batch file...it will not work on windows. It will only work in Dos, just run the file in Dosbox. Do you know how to use Dosbox, do you need helping mounting the game in Dosbox. I don't see why you haven't run the file yet....

http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/...ent=dosbox.png
this is what dos looks like to me what do i do after i start it up to be able to explore files

What the...I have no idea why you have it inside all those folders. Here just do this. (If you have spaces and such in a mount line you will need to put "" around it but for now just do what I say below.)

Unzip the U7 zip, make a folder on your F: drive called oldgames, put the U7 folder into the oldgames folder.

Open dosbox and use these mount lines:

Mount c f:\oldgames
c:

Then:

cd u7
dosbox

it says unable to change to u7

If its a folder that isn't possible...you unzipped the zip right? All there should be in your Oldgames folder is a U7 folder which has all the U7 files in it.

it came up with an error while trying to install and it says down the bottom of dos
unable to copy install.exe
file u7.cfg not found
illegal command ultima7.com
the file is unziped

Installing? Whaaaaa. I have no clue what you are doing man. All you needed to do was run the Dosbox.bat inside Dosbox nothing else.

i have no idea what i did wrong the first time but i did it all again and it worked thanks a ton Darth id kiss you if you wernt all the way in perth and a guy

Glad to know...kinda and creepy. :sneaky:

Anyway glad you got it working in the end.