Ultima VII: The Black Gate/Troubleshooting

Since Ultima VII can't run in Windows XP, even with VDMSound, you have either to use Dosbox (the game is pretty smooth, hovewer you have to have a powerful computer and the sound is still choppy) or Exult. The latest option is, obviously, the best: Exult is a windows (and linux) software which allows player to play this wonderful game even at higher resolution, ou can also use a cheat mode (very useful sometimes) and a integrated editor which allows you to modify almost everything of the game (you can even make mods!). Not only: you can change the schedule of almost every NPC in the game. And everything is so perfect in the game that makes you wonder it really came out in 1992...

Exult: http://exult.sourceforge.net

NOTE: Latest release has got a editable journal where you can write, hovewer it's more unstable than the latest "official" version....