First post, by Soul Reaver
Here's a weird one: when playing Ultima 5 (using DOSBox 0.70) , I found that when I selected the "Hole up and camp" command, I couldn't select how long to rest for unless I selected 5 or 0 hours. All the other numbers keys (both at the top of the keyboard and on the numeric keypad) simply weren't responding.
The problem doesn't happen when I run Ultima 5 straight from XP, and - as far as I can tell - it's possible to fix the problem by first, at some point, pressing any of the number keys (ie, 1-0) to select an active party member... once I do that, using the number keys to select the number of hours to "Hole up and camp" seems to work for the rest of that play session.
But it's a strange problem and I'm wondering if anyone would have any idea what causes it...
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life"
- Terry Pratchett, 'Jingo'
