Finally, I got it running. During installation I received a lot of error messages stating that DOSBOX was unable to create subdirectories, where SI stores the static data and savegames. So I simply copied the program files from my old computer and created the directories manually - and it ran! …

Thanks for trying. I have the complete Ultima 7 edition that's complete with the data disk (Silver Seed). Origin always programmed some games that needed some fine tuning of the system.

Reinstallation did not help, too. Maybe Serpent Isle remains the only game of my shelf that doesn't run with DOSBOX...

Yes, this is important. I saw this recently as I started Ultima Underworld. It ran well until I talked to an NPC in the game. Then the first write-attempt of the system revealed that I still had write protection on all files. The game quit wiith an error code. But that's not true with my copy of …

Of course then I only had 635 kB RAM and serpent isle crashed completely (a flow of error messages came down on me and I had to kill dosbox). The interesting thing is that when I start serpent isle in the first place, I only receive another but changed dos prompt. The C:> seems much lager than …

That's what I did with Ultima 7 part 1 to get it running. It does not help with serpent isle, though. In the old times I used a 486/100 with 8 MB RAM. There it worked well...

Hello, I have a lot of fun using DOSBOX in the last weeks. Most of my old games are working well without any special adjustments. But with some it is more difficult. A special problem seems tobe ultima7 (part2 serpent isle). Although I have disabled EMS and the status shows "you have >7000 KBytes …