First post, by bry
Hello, forgive my dosbox n00bishness. 😀
I see that at http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/comp_list.php?letter=U Ultima 5 is listed as supported. However I can't get it to run. It seems to be using some form of copy protection.
When I try to run it in dosbox 0.61 for either linux or winxp ultima.exe complains, "PLEASE USE ORIGINAL DISK ONLY." (the game shouts, not me). I'm using files from the 3.5" low density disk that came from the Ultima Second Trilogy set. Doesn't make a difference whether I use the -t floppy option to mount.
What's interesting is that I get the same error when trying to run it natively from a winxp system with the real disk in the drive, but it works fine on an older win98 system.
Anyone know a way around this? I'd really like to run Ultima 5 on my floppiless linux laptop, but so far I'm stumped.