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Ultima seriesUltima Underworld 1 + 2 - on Android?(6 posts)solved(6 posts)solved
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Posted October 22, 2014
I've downloaded Dosbox Turbo on my Android tablet and have been adding various oldschool games to my library there with great success. But, the Ultima Underworld games have me stumped...

When I configure a game i Dosbox Turbo I have to edit the Autoexec.Bat and type in the path to the game. Problem is that I can't find any executable files within the game directories of UW1 or UW2. The closest thing I find is a shortcut file that link to a set of CONF files, neither of which is executable.

When I use that file on my PC I can see it starts a file called "UW.BAT", but I can not see that file anywhere within the installation folders, and thus cannot use it to find out where the executable files it start are located either. >_<

Anyone able to point me in the right direction?


BTW: Got Ultima 7 to play on the Android, and it runs (and controls) like a dream!
This question / problem has been solved by DeMignonimage
Posted October 22, 2014
Just a quick slightly OT question here, but is DOSBOX turbo endorsed by the devs of the DOSBOX platform, or is someone charging questionable money for what mostly isn't their code?
Posted October 22, 2014
To be perfectly honest I have no idea. All I know is I paid a very small sum and got an emulator that seem to work perfectly.
Posted October 23, 2014
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Gormash: ... Problem is that I can't find any executable files within the game directories of UW1 or UW2. ... Anyone able to point me in the right direction?
You can't find the executables, because they're within an image file (game.gog). GOG's version mounts this image as drive D: within the DOSBox environment, that's the commands you found in the conf file.

It should work in DOSBox Turbo as well.

c:
imgmount d "game.gog" -t iso -fs iso
d:
uw.bat

The first command changes your active directory to C:\ and the second mounts the file as drive D:
The image file has to be in the folder, that represents DOSBox' virtual drive C:\

The third command "d:" changes your current directory to D:\ and "uw.bat" simply starts the batch file there to run the game.

If you want to experiment further, you can open game.gog with 7-zip or WinRAR to extract its content.
The original executables are UW.EXE and UW2.EXE. It might be enough to extract the whole UW or UW2 folder and simply run the original exes.

There's also a free app called DosBox Manager that can help you setting up these games.
See here: http://www.tomdupont.net/2013/01/how-to-play-gog-games-on-android-with.html
Post edited October 23, 2014 by DeMignon
Posted October 23, 2014
Thanks mate, I had NO idea that gog files where archives. I'm not sure why, but I couldn't get the cdrom mounting to work, but unpacking the gog file worked wonders. It's now up and running perfectly. ^_^

I'm already using Dosbox Manager. A wonderful app that makes organizing games so much easier. :)
Posted October 23, 2014
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Gormash: It's now up and running perfectly. ^_^
Great, I'm glad the unpacking worked. The file is an iso image. Keep an eye out for it on other DOSBox titles as well. GOG ships these images with several games.
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