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Ultima VII doesn't run in Real Mode, it runs in Unreal Mode. https://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Voodoo_Memory_Manager https://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Voodoo_M
by Dwedit 2y ago
Ultima VII doesn't run in Real Mode, it runs in Unreal Mode.
https://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Voodoo_Memory_Manager https://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Voodoo_Memory_Manager
- hinkley 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode Still real mode, just a variant.
- Implicated 2y agoThank you for this rabbit hole. I don't remember why, specifically, but I do remember there being a rather annoying sequence I needed to go through in order to "boot" to U7. Just to hopefully be greeted by that weirdo in red.
- hinkley 2y agoYeah that first day trying to play it after Christmas was a lot of fun ”wait, what?”
- scottmcdoge 2y ago[dead]
- mathgeek 2y agoAs a 10 year old at the time whose first exposure to memory management in general was the boot disc for Ultima VII, that game was the epitome of things that led me to love hacking things together.