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[Jenkins]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BASwitzer @ Feb 10 2007, 09:33 PM) [snapback]278745[/snapback]</div>

it does in fact say i need more expanded memory...it says
"Serpent Isle requires 1024000 bytes of extended memory! You have 0 available."
so whats going on?
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Does same about me, the "EMS=false" doesn't work maybe because it worked on older computer. Exult looks usefule but it lacks of user-friendly interface which make it much too difficult to configure and i can't play any U7 in both emulators.

I have : W98 second edition
AuthenticAMD
AMDathlon™ XP 1800+

[Blood-Pigggy]

Exult doesn't need you to really configure it, just installing it correctly can have you playing it fine, what problems are you having with Exult exactly?

[Jenkins]

Well, let's give it a try. However it's going to be a long post... I thank you blood piggy, for your patience

1- Created exult folder for it's contents
2- Exult is told to look for U7 and serpent isle in C:/oldgames/Ultima7 and c:/oldgames/serpent
3- Launched Exult: it says "Could not find the data files for BG or SI, please edit the configuration file and restart exult
4- I opened stderr and it look like this: "Trailing slash in path: "data\"
...compensating, but go complain to Colourless anyway
Unable to open device: MMSYSTEM004 **Le périphérique spécifié est en cours d'utilisation. Attendez qu'il soit libre, puis essayez Ã* nouveau.**
Failure to initialize midi playing thread"
** translation = The specified peripheral is in use. Wait until it is free, then try again.
5- I also opened stdout and it here it does : "Exult version 1.2
Built at: Jun 12 2004 03:31:19
Compile-time options: NO_SDL_PARACHUTE, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT
Compiler: Microsoft C/C++ Compiler, version: 13.0.9466

Platform: Windows 98 SE Version 4.10 Build 2222
Exult path settings:
Data : data\.
Digital music : data\\music

1 Midi Devices Detected
Listing midi devices:
-1: MIDI Mapper
0: Synthétiseur logiciel Microsoft
Using device -1: MIDI Mapper
Music player: Internal Win32 Midiout Midi Player for Exult and Pentagram.
Black Gate : not found (c:\oldgames\ultima7\static\endgame.dat)
exult_bg.flx : found
Serpent Isle : not found (c:\oldgames\serpent\static\sispeech.spc)
exult_si.flx : found"

I hope this doesn't look discouraging.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Have you tried putting the game files in a folder that's easier for Exult to locate? I make totally sure that you didn't misspell anything or made a mistake while naming your folders.

Exult should be able to find the files properly, if it can't, which seems to be the problem here, it could be an error you made or Exult is acting faulty.
Also, I don't think there's supposed to be two \\ in the music section.

[Jenkins]

Oh, I have an idea!

If Exult works for you, could you show your exult.cfg ? I'll copy it in my own .cfg and putting both U7 folders exactly the same way you did. Unless there are another possibilities

Also I remove one / and it did nothing new.

[Blood-Pigggy]

I don't use Exult, I use DosBox, are you sure that wouldn't work for you?
I'd post this in troubleshooting, it's hard for people to notice these things in the game forums.

As I said before, I'm not really an expert on Exult, if DosBox doesn't have Ultima work for you for some reason, I'd be much more capable with that.

There is a chance to have Forge of Virtue and Silver Seed (ultima VII expansion)on Abandonia?

[The Fifth Horseman]

Yes, but not before 2009.

2009!!

[The Fifth Horseman]

They were published by Electronic Arts, wich gives them 15-year protection. Nothing we can do.