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Ultima VII Black Gate and missing sound (and installation issues)

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First post, by Nytegard

Posted on 2010-09-25, 17:01

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Using the Complete Ultima 7 CD version.

When playing the game, the audio will cut off in the intro after the Guardian starts to say "Avatar, know that ..."

Unfortunately, I can't install the game inside nor outside of DOSBox. I'm using Win 7 64 Bit, so it won't run 16 bit code, and when I try installing it inside DOSBox, everything goes well until it reaches the choose your audio section, at which point it claims the installation failed, and immediately exits out.

I generated the config file through installing Serpent Isle (and copying it over), and Serpent Isle plays just fine, but The Black Gate doesn't.

Just to make sure, I installed the game with my CD on a 486, and everything worked perfectly, but I didn't remember to copy the config file before I placed it back in storage.

Reply 1 of 2, by Dominus

Posted on 2010-09-25, 17:12

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Give us your moutings you use with dosbox when you try to install it, also your exact commands you are using. My suspicion is that you either didn't mount a c drive or didn't specify your cd rom drive as such, or a mixture of that 😉
Also you can just copy the folders from the cd onto your hard drive, you only need to make sure they aren't read only on yor hard drive. See http://exult.sourceforge.net/docs.php#cdrom_install

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Reply 2 of 2, by Nytegard

Posted on 2010-09-25, 18:15

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mount C D:\DOSBOXGAMES
mount D H:\ -t cdrom

The install still doesn't work, so I did just copy from the CD Drive over. Being that I wanted to use my MT-32 rather than Sound Blaster for the audio, I ended up using the Serpent Isle install, which did work.

I finally got the audio to work, but I had to run the game once using only the Sound Blaster at which point it would work once I replaced it with the MT-32 & Sound Blaster combo.

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