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First post, by sel666

Posted on 2003-11-04, 03:26

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hi,
since the dos emulation in xp seems rather flawed, lately i've started running basically all dos games through dosbox. however, some games that have been updated with midi support or a similar feature (such as ultima 3 and ultima 5) do not work, as the program claims it cannot load midpak. however, they do work in an xp emulation of dos (a "regular" dosbox). any idea why this is?

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Reply 1 of 6, by HunterZ

Posted on 2003-11-04, 06:07

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What is the exact error message(s) that you're getting, and what is midpak?

Reply 2 of 6, by sel666

Posted on 2003-11-04, 17:38

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well regarding what midpak is i'm not quite sure, apparently some way of implementing midi in games that do not previous have music. the message says error loading midpak midi driver. the ultima upgrades i refer to are at http://exodus.voyd.net/ and are patches for using midi music in ultima 5 and 3.

Reply 3 of 6, by donjn

Posted on 2003-11-05, 16:40

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i have the same problem. ive tried everything. still no solution..

Reply 4 of 6, by sel666

Posted on 2003-11-05, 17:03

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well..maybe midpak requires windows somehow? not sure if it works in pure dos, since these updates were created after windows 98 was introduced. though everything about it and the setup program looks like dos.

Reply 5 of 6, by donjn

Posted on 2003-11-06, 15:23

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i dont think it requires windows because the midpak works for ultima 4 under dosbox.

and yes the midpaks are the same versions. its a bug within the u3 and u5 rewrite...

Reply 6 of 6, by FeedingDragon

Posted on 2004-09-04, 14:43

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Actually, they failed for me too, at first. Then I edited the conf file and turned EMS on, then it started working just fine. I also, to be safe, upped the RAM from 4MB to 16MB. Not sure which fixed the problem, though. All I know is, set to 4MB with EMS=false it didn't work. Changed it to 16MB with EMS=true and it worked just fine.

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