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Ultima seriesUltima VII 64bit from USB(7 posts)(7 posts)
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Posted January 24, 2012
I'm running all the Ultima games off my USB, but I don't appear to be able to get VII to run.
By navigating to Ultima7 in DOSBOX, I am told "Please remove your expanded memory manager before running Ultima VII. Refer to the ultima reference manual for information concerning EMS memory managers."
Double clicking the ULTIMA7 application, or U7, leads to me being told to find a 32 bit version.
Using the shortcuts is not an option for the time being, as they are on the desktop of a different, 32bit PC.
The navigation worked for Ultima 1.
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Posted January 24, 2012
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Barnox: I'm running all the Ultima games off my USB, but I don't appear to be able to get VII to run.
By navigating to Ultima7 in DOSBOX, I am told "Please remove your expanded memory manager before running Ultima VII. Refer to the ultima reference manual for information concerning EMS memory managers."
Double clicking the ULTIMA7 application, or U7, leads to me being told to find a 32 bit version.
Using the shortcuts is not an option for the time being, as they are on the desktop of a different, 32bit PC.
The navigation worked for Ultima 1.
U7 uses a very special memory manager that doesn't work well with programs like EMM386 that simulate EMS memory.

You can solve this problem with the "ems=false" line in your dosbox config file which is 'true' by default.
Post edited January 24, 2012 by gnarbrag
Posted January 24, 2012
Well, I found the "dosboxULTIMA7" file (this was the only config-type file I could find. All there was with DOSBOX was some documentation and an archive file), opened it and found the ems=false line was already there.
Could it have something to do with the fact that I am not running the game directly, but instead browsing for it? I've not been able to find a config file for DOSBOX itself.

I'm running as an administrator on Windows 7 64bit.
Posted January 25, 2012
Because you are running it from USB and not via the shortcut, probably dosbox doesn,t pick up correct config file.

You may try to create new shortcut, and put a command line like this:

{path-to-dosbox-executable}\dosbox.exe" -conf "{path-to-ultima7-dosbox-conf}\dosboxULTIMA7.conf"

That should run dosbox with the correct config file
Posted January 25, 2012
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Barnox: Well, I found the "dosboxULTIMA7" file (this was the only config-type file I could find. All there was with DOSBOX was some documentation and an archive file), opened it and found the ems=false line was already there.
Could it have something to do with the fact that I am not running the game directly, but instead browsing for it? I've not been able to find a config file for DOSBOX itself.

I'm running as an administrator on Windows 7 64bit.
The config file that DOSBox uses when you launch it separately is located under %LOCALAPPDATA%\DOSBox\dosbox-0.74.conf (assuming you're running version 0.74).
Post edited January 25, 2012 by mcmagi
Posted December 23, 2017
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Barnox: Well, I found the "dosboxULTIMA7" file (this was the only config-type file I could find. All there was with DOSBOX was some documentation and an archive file), opened it and found the ems=false line was already there.
Could it have something to do with the fact that I am not running the game directly, but instead browsing for it? I've not been able to find a config file for DOSBOX itself.

I'm running as an administrator on Windows 7 64bit.
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mcmagi: The config file that DOSBox uses when you launch it separately is located under %LOCALAPPDATA%\DOSBox\dosbox-0.74.conf (assuming you're running version 0.74).
Thank you so much, now it starts on Windows 10 64 bit too.
Posted January 04, 2018
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Barnox: I'm running all the Ultima games off my USB, but I don't appear to be able to get VII to run.
By navigating to Ultima7 in DOSBOX, I am told "Please remove your expanded memory manager before running Ultima VII. Refer to the ultima reference manual for information concerning EMS memory managers."
Double clicking the ULTIMA7 application, or U7, leads to me being told to find a 32 bit version.
Using the shortcuts is not an option for the time being, as they are on the desktop of a different, 32bit PC.
The navigation worked for Ultima 1.
The easiest way to solve this is to type these two line in DOSBox before running the program:

ems false

cycles 15000 (not necessary per se but the game seems to run smoother if you do this)

Then just launch the program from within DOSBox and it will run no problem. Ultima 7 used a custom memory manager called Voodoo so you have to disable the default one
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