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Feeling defensive because you're helpless against software piracy? I didn't post any link here, so no need for "baseball bat", eventhough you're free to appear before my door and see what you'll archieve. And my point is my point, it's my right to speak it off. Discussion better over here.

I guess I just have to face it.. A pentium II just isn't enough to play U8 via DosBox...

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Definetly not.
What OS are you using? It's most likely that if it's something older you could run it off of the system normally. If you haven't tried it already.

Swarog, it should run on a Pentium II as long as you have at least 64 MB of Ram. According to the guy that wrote the program to run it in Windows:

"Disclaimer: Despite extremely encouraging testing results, it cannot be guaranteed that this program will work for all users and in all hardware configurations. So far it works well in Windows 95, 98, ME and Windows 2000/XP. It has worked with processor speeds from 166 to 800, and RAM from 64 to 768 Mb."

Have you tried his program? If not, give it a shot. The only problem with it is that it is a b****h to get a modern soundcard working in it, but you might not have that problem.

You can download it from:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~rsd/U7inWindows.html

Thanks guys, I'll look into this one last time once I get home from the shops.

I'm running XP on a Pentium II, and with dosbox I got the game and sound working, but if I get the sound to stream fluently the game is veeeeeeery slow and choppy, and even at best the game runs too slow to play without losing interest before even reaching the docks in the beginnng. RAM shouldn't be a problem, I have 128Mb.

Originally posted by Limecat is not Pleased@Oct 2 2005, 01:51 PM
Swarog, it should run on a Pentium II as long as you have at least 64 MB of Ram. According to the guy that wrote the program to run it in Windows:

"Disclaimer: Despite extremely encouraging testing results, it cannot be guaranteed that this program will work for all users and in all hardware configurations. So far it works well in Windows 95, 98, ME and Windows 2000/XP. It has worked with processor speeds from 166 to 800, and RAM from 64 to 768 Mb."

Have you tried his program? If not, give it a shot. The only problem with it is that it is a b****h to get a modern soundcard working in it, but you might not have that problem.

You can download it from:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~rsd/U7inWindows.html

Actually, that's for Ultima 7. The thread is about Ultima 8, though...

Originally posted by Gamefreak+Oct 2 2005, 05:08 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Gamefreak @ Oct 2 2005, 05:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Limecat is not Pleased@Oct 2 2005, 01:51 PM
Swarog, it should run on a Pentium II as long as you have at least 64 MB of Ram.* According to the guy that wrote the program to run it in Windows:

"Disclaimer: Despite extremely encouraging testing results, it cannot be guaranteed that this program will work for all users and in all hardware configurations. So far it works well in Windows 95, 98, ME and Windows 2000/XP. It has worked with processor speeds from 166 to 800, and RAM from 64 to 768 Mb."

Have you tried his program?* If not, give it a shot.* The only problem with it is that it is a b****h to get a modern soundcard working in it, but you might not have that problem.

You can download it from:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~rsd/U7inWindows.html

Actually, that's for Ultima 7. The thread is about Ultima 8, though... [/b][/quote]
Yes, but to the left is a link to the same program for Ultima 8, so it was only off by a page. THANKS Limecat!

Okay now, here we go.

Thanks to this nifty program I can get U8 to work straight from XP, the speed is good and all is well in the Land of Nod. Almost.

To get the sound to work I had to download VDMSound v. 2.1.0. BUT all I get is either a garbled mish-mash of digital squeaks(when sound and music is set to use SoundBlaster). I can get music by using setting it to use MIDI (in U8's install) and can live with that, but would also like sound effects.. I set the music to still use MIDI but tried setting the effects to use SoundBlaster, this resulted in the game crashing in the intro when the first digital sounds are to begin(The Guardian's hand is about to appear). I'm now going to play around with this some more and see if I can get it to work in some way, tho.

"(Personal note: for reasons quoted above, digital sound will not seem to work in U8. I can get it to run tolerably well if I specify "no sound card" - you get text on screen - and Sound Blaster or General Midi for music.)

This is from Ron Windeyer's page that Limecat so kindly directed us to. So it seems we can get music but no digital sound effects. Bummer, but at least I can now play the game!! YES!!!

Thanks again Limecat, I can now vanish into the world of Pagan for the forseeable future! k:

Yay! I don't know why, but the U8 page has the same URL as the U7 page. I noticed that after I posted, but I knew you guys were smart enough to figure it out. Well, most of you.

As an FIY, I couldn't get the sound effects working for more than a second or two in DoxBox either, and if you see my above post, having sound effects checked iin the Options locked up the game for me in some key spots. From what I heard, they don't add hugely to the game so I was happy enough without them, but I know what it's like to have to get EVERYTHING working or it just isn't right.

Glad you got it working. Hours of gooey, gaming goodness.

One more thing. Make sure that if you don't have the patched version that you install the patch before playing. The patch deletes all your save games. You can tell if you have the patched version if you find a key ring in the barrels next to the docks.