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Ultima III (shareware) on Executor



I'm hoping that some one can solve the problems I'm having trying
to run Ultima III (the recent port by beastie@lairware.com, see
also http://www.lairware.com/~beastie/ultima3.html) on Executor.

A bit about my configuration:
Pentium 66/16MB
Ati Graphics Ultra Pro PCI (VBE 1.2)
Soundblaster Pro
Executor/Dos 1.99q9

I've been playing with Ultima III for a few months.  The good news:
It works.  Sound effects work.  But music doesn't.  (I didn't even
bother trying speech).

I get the error message:

Ultima III has run out of memory while attempting to get a music
track.  Use Finder's Get Info command to give another 100K or so
to Ultima III

Naturally, Browser isn't quite up to the task.  I have also tried
to use executor -applzone 8m to get more memory, but that doesn't
seem to work.

Another quirk:  When Ultima III loads up, it "wipes" in EXODUS,
which SHOULD be accompanied by some sound effects (works fine on
my Amiga/Emplant) but isn't.  Then it "wipes" in Ultima III which
SHOULD also be accompanied by some sound effects (although I
could have sworn that this used to work on Executor -- I tried
going back to 1.99q but no luck.  Then I tried 1.99p and had
no sound at all).  Finally it shows a small animation of a bunch
of adventurers fighting a dragon.  The dragon breathes on them
and that sound works perfectly.

Naturally, ARDI is very busy, but maybe one day ...

--
Paul Liss, Information Processing Consultant
University of Wisconsin, Madison -- School of Nursing
pliss@maddog.fammed.wisc.edu     -- 263-4539
http://www.son.wisc.edu/~paul/


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