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From: c60c-4au@web-4f.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Ultima V problems (call for unprotect file...)
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Date: 4 Dec 88 04:56:06 GMT
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I recently tried to run the game Ultima V by Electronic Arts on my (cheap)
PC clone and ran into problems.  When I start the game, it asks for the key
disk to be put into Drive A or B.  Ok fine, I do so (this is an ORIGINAL
disk, not a copy or anything).  Then, it accesses drives A and B and says,
Insert the key disk in drive A or B.  It never seems to recognize that the
key disk is in the drive.  The drive speed on my drive is correct, so that
is not a problem.  I have tried the disk on a couple of friends computers,
one with an AT and one with a true blue PC, but it works on their computers.
My computer setup is:

10 MHz IBM PC/XT clone with a V-20 chip
Hercules graphics card
640K RAM
2 disk drives

Now, since I have tried virtually everything to get it to work with no
avail, I was wondering if anyone knew how to patch the program so that it
ignores the protection.  I tried using CodeView on it, and found a call to
the protection routine, but when I tried to single step the code, CodeView
got lost, so some funny stuff is going on there, and I don't know 8088 code
well enough to figure it out.  So, if anyone has a patch for ULTIMA.EXE (the
file containing the protection check I think) to make it work without the
key disk, I would greatly appreciate it, since I have been waiting for Ultima
V for a LONG time...

--
Erik Talvola               | "It's just what we need... a colossal negative 
c60c-4au@web.berkeley.edu  | space wedgie of great power coming right at us
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