Ultima II Upgrade Patch

The Ultima II Upgrade Patch, created by Voyager Dragon, does many essential improvements to the MS-DOS port of Ultima II. Without the patch, the game would be unplayable on today's computers. The most current version of the patch is 2.1. The patch is intended to be installed in DosBox. The biggest change of the patch is, that the graphics of the game get a complete overhaul. Besides the original CGA-graphics, a tileset looking like the CGA-composite mode becomes available.

The 16-color EGA-graphics come int three different flavors:
 * The original tileset upgraded to EGA 16 colors.
 * A re-creation of the tileset of the C64-port, which is notably different.
 * An enhanced EGA-tileset that takes many cues from the Ultima IV Upgrade Patch.

Additionally, the following changes are made to the game:
 * A built-in frame limiter that allows the game to run at the intended speed.
 * Micro Dragon's Speed Fix, which eliminates the nasty divide-by-zero errors.
 * Moonstone Dragon's U2 Galaxy Map patch, which not only fixes all the broken planet maps from the CD-release of Ultima II, but also the broken Greenland dungeon.
 * Improved character creation, which eliminates the need to re-install the game for a new character.
 * A much improved saving system.
 * Addition of several new hotkeys (such as exit to DOS).
 * Fixing of several serious bugs:
 * Stats and gold can no longer roll over, they simply reach the highest value.
 * Additionally, high enough stats now no longer cause vendor prices to skyrocket.
 * Multiple situations that could corrupt the terrain.

One problem used to be that the u2cfg.exe needs DPMI to work, which DosBox doesn't provide. The solution was to get a substitute here. In order to fix the problem, unpack the ZIP file and make sure that all the files are in the root directory of the game (no sub-folders). Starting with version 2.0, DPMI is no longer needed for everything to work as originally intended.