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[E-Swan]

hello, I am new to this, but i really want to be able to play ultima 8 again. I am having the same problem as Korvus had. I downloaded dosbox and everything, but i can't get the mount code right.

The U8.exe file is in the folder C:\Games\Ultima8

can you help me with my mount code? i typed in mount c c:\Games\ and it tells me Drive C already mounted with local directory c:\games\

I dont know if thats right or not, but what do i do from there?

plz help me

[E-Swan]

ok scratch what i just said, i ended up getting it to work. Now i have 3 more questions. How do i make the window bigger, it is really small on my moniter. And also, how do i get the music playing? I installed the VDMSound thingy or whatever, but i dont hear any music. I can hear noises, such as foot steps and jumping and his grunts when he climbs a wall, but no music...and how do i speed up or slow down the game? it seems somewhat choppy. what do i need to do? plz help

[_r.u.s.s.]

to get in to full screen pres alt-enter
for music, run 'install exe', then "change music configuration"-> then choose "Adlib" or "general midi" (leave default port be) and exit setup with hitting "install"
and for speed up press ctrl-f12 (slow down ctrl-f11), but i d recommend you read dosbox faq, there are lots of other useful stuff

[E-Swan]

hey, ok. I tried Alt-tab but all that happens is it bring up the window to switch from one window to another. It doesn't maximize the game screen. And as for the music, i did what you told me, but i still dont hear music. I only hear the footsteps and such still. This is what my install.exe thing looks like.

Source Drive: C:\ULTIMA8
Destination Drive: C:\ULTIMA8
Sound Card: Sound Blaster PORT:0x0220 IRQ:7 DMA:1 (kept the defaults)
Music Card: Adlib PORT:0x0388 (i kept the defaults, whatever it was already set at)

by the way, thank you for helping

[_r.u.s.s.]

WOPS, sorry, i meant alt-enter (edited)
and btw try general midi for the music=) (that one worked for me)

[E-Swan]

ok i ended up using sound blaster for both sound and music and it works ok. The only problem now is that the game runs a little choppy and the music sounds like is is choppy and skipping sometimes... anyway to fix that?

[_r.u.s.s.]

i think you put too much in to cpu cycles

[The Fifth Horseman]

Change Core to Dynamic in DosBox.conf and check your CPU usage graph when increasing the cycles to get them as high as possible but below 100% CPU usage.

how do i open dosbox.conf? What program do i use to run it? i double click it and it asks what program created it. Or is there some other way i'm supposed to go about doing this?

[The Fifth Horseman]

how do i open dosbox.conf? What program do i use to run it? i double click it and it asks what program created it.[/b]

With Notepad. It's a simple text file.