How to install Ultima collection on Win2000?

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"Minotar" <minotar@comcast.net> wrote in
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> I am trying to install the Ultima Collection on Windows 2000
> professional and when I click setup it does nothing? Does anyone know
> how to get it to install on Win2000/XP? Please help if you can!

Don't use the install routine from the CD - it doesn't work!
Instead, copy/unzip/whatever the games manually.

You might need utilities like Exult (for the Ultima 7's), Mo'Slo',
DOSbox, VDMSound etc. to get some of the games up and running.

Happy gaming!

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"Minotar" <minotar@comcast.net> wrote in
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> How do I copy and unzip the games manually? Will just copying all the
> files on the install CD to a folder on the desktop work for Ultima
> Collection? Anyone able to help?

For U7: Make a directory called <drive>\games\U7 and unzip the U7.zip
into that directory.
For Serpent Isle (U7/2) do the same (<drive>\games\serpent>.

Then run the install.exe's and select some SB- or MIDI-card in the
configuration options. You get an error message, but just ignore it.

Then install Exult (http://exult.sourceforge.net/), point it to the
directories you install to, and there you go.

The earlier Ultimas can be copied as is, iirc, but you might need
VDMSound and/or Slo'Mo to run some of them.

I never got U8 Pagan running on my Win2K-system. If you find a way, let
me hear about it.

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Thanks for the info. MY machine isn't the fastest, but I keep it going
nicely. Just got a Radeon 9600XT which seems to tear through any game I
throw at it at reasonable resolutions I actually got the install to work
by copying the entrie CD to my desktop then unchecking "read only" from all
the files, then running the installer... Weird stuff? I think the CD copy
portection program must have been causing the problem! Anyway, I will try
DOS box, but I plan to use Exult and U4Virtue of Humility, etc... for the
games; I just needed to get them on the HD, I think. Thanks for all the
help all!


"J. P. Morris" <jpm@it-he.org> wrote in message
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> Arcana Dragon wrote:
>
> > "Minotar" <minotar@comcast.net> wrote in
> > news:hO6dnUJEg58PkufdRVn-gg@comcast.com:
> >
> >> How do I copy and unzip the games manually? Will just copying all the
> >> files on the install CD to a folder on the desktop work for Ultima
> >> Collection? Anyone able to help?
> >
> > For U7: Make a directory called <drive>\games\U7 and unzip the U7.zip
> > into that directory.
> > For Serpent Isle (U7/2) do the same (<drive>\games\serpent>.
>
> And what version of the Ultima collection has zipfiles?
>
> Mine, which is the rerelease from 1998, has the files all raw:
>
> [jpmorris@localhost jpmorris]$ ls /mnt/cdrom/ultima7/
> endgame.exe install.prm mainmenu.exe static u7.cfg ultima7.com
> install.exe intro.exe moslo.com u7.bat u7.exe ultima7.txt
>
> ..this means the files are all read-only, and this has to be fixed
> with attrib before the games will work.
>
> > Then run the install.exe's and select some SB- or MIDI-card in the
> > configuration options. You get an error message, but just ignore it.
>
> If you have enough horsepower, I would recommend using DOSbox to
> run all the games: (http://dosbox.sf.net/)
>
> You do have to have a basic understanding of how to use a computer,
> and Pagan will probably be slow, unless your machine is bang
> up-to-date.
>
> --
> JP Morris - aka DOUG the Eagle (Dragon) -=UDIC=- jpm@it-he.org
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Arcana Dragon <this@ress.is.invalid> wrote in
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> Ah, well, it might be an .exe-file. I actually tried to dig out the CD
> to check, but couldn't find it. Anyway the installation files for U7
> and SI is in the root of my CD (as opposed to the rest, iirc) - I'll
> check it as soon as I get the time.

I was wrong. The two U7's are in two seperate dirs, that can be copied
directly (remember to execute a attrib -r command to remove read-only
attribute when copying from CD!)

I was confusing Ultima Collection with "The Complete Ultima 7", sorry.

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