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[Mighty Midget]

The "patch" you need is called DOSBox, and you will find a link to the download site here http://www.abandonia.com/en/node/23027
Please read our guide in Troubleshooting for setting it up correctly

Originally Posted by Mighty Midget

The "patch" you need is called DOSBox, and you will find a link to the download site here http://www.abandonia.com/en/node/23027
Please read our guide in Troubleshooting for setting it up correctly

Thank you for the link. I have succesfully installed DOSBox, but the game still does not open. Any suggestions......?

[Simoneer]

You need to do more than just install DOSBox and double click the game file.

The easiest way to run games in DOSBox is to copy the game file, and just right click the DOSBox icon and click paste. Then there's the proper way, and I really can't get into detail on that.

Check the DOSBox site.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Originally Posted by Liliana

Thank you for the link. I have succesfully installed DOSBox, but the game still does not open. Any suggestions......?

Sure, it's called A Beginner's Guide to DOSBox.
If you have any problems with the examples or questions the guide does not answer, I'll be happy to answer any and all of them.

[Simoneer]

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

Sure, it's called A Beginner's Guide to DOSBox.
If you have any problems with the examples or questions the guide does not answer, I'll be happy to answer any and all of them.

Nice guide you have there. There's one small problem, though: Clicking the links that are supposed to send you to posts doesn't seem to work; They (at least for me) just throw you back to the main forum page.

Anyway, do you think my method (AKA: The Lazy Man's Way) of just copying game EXEs (or BATs) and pasting them right right onto the DOSBox EXE might be the reason some won't work properly? Most works just fine, though. By ''most'' I mean about 90%. But that could be other reasons.

Oh, and is that a Power Dolls background you have? (I'm not saying I'm a Power Dolls fan; Haven't played a single one of them... I'm just wondering.)

I'm playing UU1, and have gotten fairly far. The problem is that sometimes item's dissapear when i save my game. I keep an eye on my stuff, so i've delt with it.
The problem now is, in all my save files, i SHOULD be wearing a chain shirt, instead the 'paper doll' displays a yellow box, and when i 'look' at it, where i should be wearing a chain shirt, it says 'day old piece of bread'.
I move it, and sure enough, the curser turns into a day old piece of bread, and the paper doll displays an unarmored me. Ok, so i lost a chain shirt, i can live with that, but it seems i have also lost the 4 or so 'stones' worth of weight associated with a chain shirt.
So not only did my armor turn into a piece of bread, my carrying capacity went down, from 54 to 50. I've saved new files, taken off all items, put them back on, saved again...nothing seems to get that weight back. Any suggestions?
Thanks

[Wicky]

The major cause of this is hording. If you have a large number of items (30 - 40 items total) in one location (one room, one bag, one pack), the game may corrupt some of your objects.

I personally always keep my bags tidy, with none of them holding more than 8 items. For example a backpack with 7 items and one chest, inside the chest I put another 7 items and so on.

The solution is, that objects are stored in memory one after the other. If the inventory of one item gets too big, it overwrites the memory of the beginning of the next item.

You can continue to play the game without re-starting, but you may not be able to finish the game if a quest item is corrupted.

[gregor]

never had this bug pop up. however i did have rooms in every level where i would put the loot (food and some gems). I didn't use many things and the ones i could i just sold for money.

[Elena]

Some old versions of UU have this bug, I saw it. A version on this site is free of bugs. Download and play it. Don’t use your old savegames, you have to start from the beginning to avoid this bug.

[cappez]

I was wondering why this game has such a low rating (3.2). I absolutely loved this game and was completely sucked into it...I was around 12 years old and it's the first RPG I played. It set the benchmark for me and only Ultima Underworld 2 and Betrayal at Krondor came close. I even enjoyed playing it all over again recently using DosBox (and it takes quite a long time to finish this game).