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Ultima seriesUltima IV - dosbox doesn't seem to work(5 posts)solved(5 posts)solved
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Posted March 10, 2013
Okay, whenever I try to start the game, it looks like the enter key works to get me into the main menu, but that's about it; I try to select from the menu ("options," "new journey," etc.), but the little blue cursor never moves. I know to try accessing "Graphing Mode Setup" from the start menu, but no matter what settings I start with (Overlay, Surface, DDraw, Direct3D, OpenGL, OpenGLnb), the problem remains.

I'm pretty sure I've never used dosbox before, so is there some embarrassingly obvious fix to this? I'm running it on an acer laptop with Vista, if that helps pinpoint a problem. Thanks.
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Posted March 10, 2013
You must press the key that corrsponds to the firs tletter of what you want. For example if you want to journey inward (load game) you press J. To start a new game you [I]nitiate a new game.
Posted March 10, 2013
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HiPhish: You must press the key that corrsponds to the firs tletter of what you want. For example if you want to journey inward (load game) you press J. To start a new game you [I]nitiate a new game.
Okay, that worked. So, how do I go into "options"? Cause "o" didn't do anything.
Posted March 10, 2013
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DRWii: Okay, that worked. So, how do I go into "options"? Cause "o" didn't do anything.
What options? Ultima IV has no options, back then game programing was much less understood and many values were hardcoded, never to be changed. If you mean the "Options" on the main menu screen, that's just a promt for you to choose which of the three options (new game, continue or back to title screeen) you want. Keep in mind, back then everything was text-based, Ultima IV came out in 1985, just one year after the first Macintosh, so such prompts were very common on computers.
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DRWii: Okay, that worked. So, how do I go into "options"? Cause "o" didn't do anything.
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HiPhish: What options? Ultima IV has no options, back then game programing was much less understood and many values were hardcoded, never to be changed. If you mean the "Options" on the main menu screen, that's just a promt for you to choose which of the three options (new game, continue or back to title screeen) you want.
Oh, okay. Sorry if these seem like stupid questions; I'm mostly a console gamer (and the games I play rarely go back before the 32-bit era), so this is very uncharted territory for me. Thanks for your help!
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