Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:21805 rec.games.misc:3411 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!agate!web-4f.berkeley.edu!c60c-4au From: c60c-4au@web-4f.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,rec.games.misc Subject: Ultima V problems (call for unprotect file...) Message-ID: <17744@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 4 Dec 88 04:56:06 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: c60c-4au@web-4f.berkeley.edu () Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 30 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 | at warp speed." -- Star Drek