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Ultima 8 won't run please help!

#1 User is offline   duhmez 

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Posted 20 May 2003 - 08:57 PM

I;'ve got the ultima collection and I cant get ultima 8 to run. it comes with a bootdisk maker that supposedly makes dos boot with enough ram for the game, but it hasnt worked for me.

I have tried using win98 dos, but gave that up and installed actual dos 6.22 in a virtual PC whichis the native environment for the game. i downloaded a dos mouse driver that they say is the smallest ram usage of all mouse drivers, a few K short of the microsoft ouse driver, setup the config.sys just like the manual says to, and I still ont have enough memory. it will start when i dont load a mouse driver, which shows that I am almost there. Unfortunately, a mouse is REQUIRED fo r the game. If someone who has played this game cam post the eact configuration that works it would be greatly appreciated.

I checked out dosbox but it did not suppport it(somehting about protected mode not supported yet) when I went there.
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Posted 20 May 2003 - 10:19 PM

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I;'ve got the ultima collection and I cant get ultima 8 to run. it comes with a bootdisk maker that supposedly makes dos boot with enough ram for the game, but it hasnt worked for me.

I have tried using win98 dos, but gave that up and installed actual dos 6.22 in a virtual PC whichis the native environment for the game. i downloaded a dos mouse driver that they say is the smallest ram usage of all mouse drivers, a few K short of the microsoft ouse driver, setup the config.sys just like the manual says to, and I still ont have enough memory. it will start when i dont load a mouse driver, which shows that I am almost there. Unfortunately, a mouse is REQUIRED fo r the game. If someone who has played this game cam post the eact configuration that works it would be greatly appreciated.

I checked out dosbox but it did not suppport it(somehting about protected mode not supported yet) when I went there.


Which one is 8? Is that Pagan or whatever? If so, I never got that to run on xp, 98 or 95.
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Posted 20 May 2003 - 11:24 PM

You tried using memmaker (or something like that ) - came with dos 6 anyways.

Other than that its gonna be posting autoexec.bat, config.sys and mem /c which could get messy.
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Posted 21 May 2003 - 12:07 AM

yes it is pagan or whatever.

Its not supposed to run on windows that's why im trying to get it to run on dos. Hoping someone who has or can run it can post their autoexecs, and config.sys files.
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#5 User is offline   pr-man 

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Posted 22 May 2003 - 01:50 AM

here ya go supposedly this patch allows U8 to run in win9x/ME and 2000

http://members.iinet.net.au/~rsd/six.html
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Posted 22 May 2003 - 02:02 AM

Thx alot! Ill l check it out!
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Posted 22 May 2003 - 07:37 AM

did it help?
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#8 User is offline   duhmez 

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Posted 23 May 2003 - 08:02 AM

yes very much. Works great on win98 in a virtual PC, win2k i am dealing with getting sound to work cause its too slow in the win98 virtual PC.

For sound on win2k with this patch, go here.

(free)

http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound/
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Posted 21 November 2004 - 03:29 PM

I have been looking for a download for U8 for soooooooo damn long and i've spend a hell of a lot of hours searching for a download. Since u can't buy it, and nobody I know has it, then the only way to get it is to download it. Someone PLEEEEEEEEEEAASE help me cos I was totally obsessed with the game when I had it on my old pentium 75mhz (lol so crap).
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Posted 08 February 2005 - 09:19 AM

go to http://www.abandonia.com/game.php?ID=135 I found one here but it does not work on my computer i install it then nothing happens. so if anyone knows why tell me please.
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Posted 08 February 2005 - 10:23 AM

This site does not support abandonware.
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#12 User is offline   Retarded Fly 

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Posted 08 February 2005 - 08:25 PM

what is asandonware?
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#13 User is offline   Wilhelmus 

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Posted 08 February 2005 - 08:54 PM

Abandonware - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Posted 08 February 2005 - 11:02 PM

so what is so bad about it not supporting asandonware?
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Posted 09 February 2005 - 05:33 AM

Abandonware is illegal, please search google for: "Get a clue".

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