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Hi,

I'm running Ultima Underworld on the Mac and am wondering if there's a way to fix the sound. It's playing random MIDI notes instead of sound effects, like walking, attacking, and monster noises.

Thanks for your help!
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Cheeseball: Hi,

I'm running Ultima Underworld on the Mac and am wondering if there's a way to fix the sound. It's playing random MIDI notes instead of sound effects, like walking, attacking, and monster noises.

Thanks for your help!
This requires a few steps:

For Ultima Underworld 1:
1. Go to Finder>Applications>Ultima Underworld 1+2.
2. Right click Ultima Underworld 1 and choose Show Package Contents.
3. Go to Contents.
4. Go to Resources.
5. Right click Ultima Underworld 1.boxer and choose Show Package Contents.
6. Go to C Ultima Underworld 1 and 2.harddisk.
7. Go to UNDEROM1.
8. Go to DATA.
9. Open UW.CFG with TextEdit (right click, Open With)
10. Replace 6 -1 -1 -1 sound with 2 7 220 1 sound
11. Save your changes.

For Ultima Underworld 2:
1. Go to Finder>Applications>Ultima Underworld 1+2.
2. Right click Ultima Underworld 2 and choose Show Package Contents
3. Go to Contents.
4. Go to Resources.
5. Right click Ultima Underworld 2.boxer and choose Show Package Contents.
6. Go to C Ultima Underworld 1 and 2.harddisk.
7. Go to UNDEROM2.
8. Go to DATA.
9. Open UW.CFG with TextEdit (right click, Open With)
10. Replace 5 -1 -1 -1 sound with 2 7 220 1 sound
11. Save your changes.
Post edited April 23, 2013 by Arkose
Perfect, thank you! Had been trying to fix it in the dosbox.conf and had no luck.
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Arkose: For Ultima Underworld 1:
1. Go to Finder>Applications>Ultima Underworld 1+2.
2. Right click Ultima Underworld 1 and choose Show Package Contents.
3. Go to Contents.
4. Go to Resources.
5. Right click Ultima Underworld 1.boxer and choose Show Package Contents.
6. Go to C Ultima Underworld 1 and 2.harddisk.
7. Go to UNDEROM1.
8. Go to DATA.
9. Open UW.CFG with TextEdit (right click, Open With)
10. Replace 6 -1 -1 -1 sound with 2 7 220 1 sound
11. Save your changes.

For Ultima Underworld 2:
1. Go to Finder>Applications>Ultima Underworld 1+2.
2. Right click Ultima Underworld 2 and choose Show Package Contents
3. Go to Contents.
4. Go to Resources.
5. Right click Ultima Underworld 2.boxer and choose Show Package Contents.
6. Go to C Ultima Underworld 1 and 2.harddisk.
7. Go to UNDEROM2.
8. Go to DATA.
9. Open UW.CFG with TextEdit (right click, Open With)
10. Replace 5 -1 -1 -1 sound with 2 7 220 1 sound
11. Save your changes.