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Re: Ultima Underworld demo from ftp.ulowell.edu: help!

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From: ger... Jerry Gerace
Date: Mon, 18 May 1992 02:41
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In article <1992May17.2...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> bta...@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Brad Taplin) writes:
>Hello. I just downlaoded uw_demo.exe from ftp.ulowell.edu and ran
>it with apparently no problem. The subdirectories all appear to
>have been correctly created, and the uwconfig.exe programs runs
>fine as best I can tell, but after I configure it for slow and
>PC speaker and then run uwdemo.exe I get the following message:
>
>	Cannot run Underworld.
>	Out of EMS memory. Error code C001
>
>My GateWay 386sx-16 includes four meg of on-board XMS and
>on-board Paradise chipset SVGA with 512k. I know the game
>requires serious power, but a 386sx was on the list given
>by the uwconfig.exe program. Does uw_demo.exe require more
>than four meg, and if so can I use virtual memory somehow?
>Maybe the demo is dumber even than me and can't find XMS?
>
One can only assume that you're EMS driver is not installed or
working right.  It worked on my 386sx-16 with 3 megs of memory (using
QEMM 386) so as long as your memory is set up to be used as EMS,
you should be groovin.

Ultima 7 uses it's own whizbang memory driver, as I suspect most
Origin releases will start doing...

Poo
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