There is an update patch for the game available. One easy way to see if you have the updated version is to try a standing "aimed" jump. Move the mouse to a particular locaion in front of you, and click both mouse buttons at the same time. If you jump to where the pointer was, then you should have …

For UW1 & UW2 you just run UINSTALL.EXE to tell it what sound card to use, then you run UWSOUND.EXE to set up the IRQ for the sound card. I have the Ultimate RPG myself and that works for me just fine.

Yes, that is a VLB card. VLB (or Vesa Local Bus,) was an attempt to speed up video transfers before PCI. The extension (the brown slot behind the standard ISA slot,) gave faster (more direct,) access to video memory for the CPU. It became obsolete very quickly when PCI came out, as PCI was faster. …

If you hear the music during the intro then the music should be configured correctly. If you aren't hearing any music in the game, and you are also not hearing the buzzes & beeps of the PC speaker sounds, then there is really only one thing left to try, that I can think of. Once you are in the game, …

Does adlib and PC speaker sounds work in other games? For example Ultima IV is a free download and you can get a music upgrade patch for it. If you installed both of those and set the music patch to adlib, does the music play, and does it make the annoying beeps & buzzes that Ultima 1-5 are famous …

uh oh somebody might feel insulted now ;) You don't even need multitasking for the plugins. I certainly didn't mean to insult anybody.... That being said, if it's set up so that the plug-in is actually a totally seperate program that runs at the same time as DOSBox and just communicates with DOSBox …

It seems to me, and as only an amateur programmer I’m more than willing to admit that I could be wrong, the best solution would be to program a highly standardized interface for the plug-in. Since DOSBox is designed around running in a modern OS, then I believe all of them (with the possible …

I've attached the config file that I use. It assumes that you installed Ultima VI with adlib, which is the music the game was designed around. The game supports several music cards including MT-32, Creative Music System, and Covox Sound Master. However, all of the others convert the adlib data on …

The sound effects were all done via the PC speaker. So you have to make sure you have pcspeaker=true set in your config file. Also, the sound will be extremely fast. For most accurate playback of the PC speaker sounds with Ultima VI (as well as Martian Dreams & Savage Empire which all use the same …

int 14 is NOT irq 14. It was just a thought that they could be related. I will happily admit that the thought is wrong. I just do not know enough about how DOS functions to make a solid conclusion. re-reading my own post, I probably should have said "and came to the conlusion that INT 14 was …

Not 100% sure this is the correct forum, but it seems to be the closest to me. First, the problem: When I try to install DOS 6.22 onto a hard drive image file everything works fine up until the point at which I try to actually start the installation (I can FDISK & FORMAT just fine) then I get an …

By the sound being "destroyed" I mean the PC Speaker sounds. The games are designed, it seems, to use chip speed to control the speaker sounds (instead of the clock or some other stable source.) So on faster running machines the sounds are spead up until they are little more than brief buzzes. So, …

With 0.63 U2 & U3 now work just fine with the graphics updates in all ways except one. The main reason I use DOSBox to run them (the graphics updates include frame limiters to slow the games down,) is for the "speaker" sounds to be correct. If I install the graphics update (even with music turned …

Actually, they failed for me too, at first. Then I edited the conf file and turned EMS on, then it started working just fine. I also, to be safe, upped the RAM from 4MB to 16MB. Not sure which fixed the problem, though. All I know is, set to 4MB with EMS=false it didn't work. Changed it to 16MB with …

Running it on Win2k-SP4, P4-1.6ghz system with 1g mem, ATI RADEON 9200se (128mb,) SB Audigy. Keep gettinga "FAR HEAP CORRUPT" message from the game when I try to leave the museum. Tried stripping the config down (cga, 1meg, no sound cards, etc..) without any luck. DOSBox reports "Error: Cache Block …

Actually, I've found it fairly easy to get boats to appear every time I've played it. The best I can determine, and this may not be exact. The game says, "place a new monster." It then randomly determines a spot, and it seems to be weighted strongly towards land here. If the spot is invalid (for any …

Not sure about XP (or ME.) I'm running Win2k and the same thing kept happening to me until I selected the CPU speed limiters (forgot their name, and I don't have the addon installed right now.) I had the slider all the way to the right though. Turn those off and it crashed, turn them on and it ran …