twisty on 30/5/2002 at 09:14
Will the Pocket PC version of Ultima Underworld by <a href="http://www.ziosoft.com/">Ziosoft</a> have sound? I've never played around with a Pocket PC before to know whether or not they are capable of sounds beyond simple beeps and clicks. Does anyone here know?
Tels on 30/5/2002 at 09:58
My iPAQ is capable of playing MP3 via headphone jack or normal speaker (although the normal speaker is quite tiny and sounds not too good).
The build-in sound-hardware is quite limited due to size.
But it is possible, yes. I just find it unfortunately that there will be no linux version :(
twisty on 30/5/2002 at 11:39
<b>Tels</b>, have you ever managed to get UW1/2 to run with full sound on Linux yet (as in, on your PC)?
Tels on 30/5/2002 at 12:17
No. I have only UUW1 run under Windows. AFAIK, it doesn't run under Wine due to beeing a DOS game (but I'll try again).
I have no UUW2 (yet).
Cheers,
Tels
Tels on 30/5/2002 at 12:24
<pre>
te@null:~/TransGaming_Drive/games/uw1> winex UWDEMO.exe
Warning: /usr/lib/transgaming/winex/bin/wine not accessible from a configured DOS drive
[snip]
Warning: unprotecting the first 64KB of memory to allow real-mode calls.
NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught.
Cannot run Underworld.
Out of EMS Memory. Error code C001
te@null:~/TransGaming_Drive/games/uw1>
</pre>
That is the UW1 demo, doesn't look to good.
Oh, and just to clarify, I meant I find it unfortunately, that there will be a PocketPC version, but none for Linux on the handheld. Of course, a desktop linuxversion should also be run (theoretically) on an IPAQ.
twisty on 30/5/2002 at 14:25
Someone managed to get the full version of UW to play on Linux. I ran a search on these forums but I couldn't seem to find the thread. From what I remember, he (I can't remember who it was) used a DOS emulator. I don't think that he managed to get sound to work though.
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<b>Tels:</b>
I have no UUW2 (yet).
Do you mean that you have never played UW2? Overall, its my favourite game ever.
b.t.w. I have also purchased an original shrink wrapped box from Vern, which should be arriving shortly :). Although, I don't know if I've got the heart to open it...
Tels on 30/5/2002 at 14:30
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Someone managed to get the full version of UW to play on Linux. I ran a search on these forums but I couldn't seem to find the thread. From what I remember, he (I can't remember who it was) used a DOS emulator. I don't think that he managed to get sound to work though.
Wine is the windows "emulator". I'am unsure whether there exists a DOS emulator or not. DOS programs *should* run under wine, but usually it is even harder to get them to run under wine than under windows.
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Do you mean that you have never played UW2? Overall, its my favourite game ever.
I played both (multiple times), but I never owned one :-(
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b.t.w. I have also purchased an original shrink wrapped box from Vern, which should be arriving shortly . Although, I don't know if I've got the heart to open it...
<aol>me too</aol>
I would like to buy UW1, too. Although it would probably not run, anymore. But the various recreation projects are fun and I hack at the UW adventures project a bit to get it to work under Linux (Heh! Michael! Watch <a href="http://uwadv.sourceforge.net">out</a>.
Tels
madmax559 on 7/6/2002 at 21:33
i think you guys were referring to my earlier post
i managed to get uw1 &2 running off a cd using a ramdisk
the os was dos622 & the cd is bootable
for linux using dosemu or wine here a few suggestions for tels to try out
go here ...(
http://www.sircabirus.com/ultimaunderworld/pages/)
& grab the patch. this fixes the exe & removes an instruction that would try to
turn on the scroll led or something
i think that error may be related to dma which dos proggys are frequently known for
so patch the exe & let us know if it worked....
cheers
pete
