Long live Lord British and the enthusiasts of Brittania. Neat; that said: What's the general hold up with installing Ultima VII through dosbox/-x?
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Easy for you, not easy for my Uncle or Nephew.
Companies like GoG (Grand old Games) have done a lot to "polish" the DosBox experience but it's still ... rough. Small things like mouse movement just feeling jank make a big difference.
A game can be _functional_ but if the UX is so poor/dated that it doesn't hold up, then I think projects like this make a lot of sense. Having high quality buttons, config menus that match modern UI expectations, and HiDPI font rendering goes a long way towards getting my non-technical family members to stick around.
It just makes it more accessible. But maybe my take is spicy. Anybody agree/disagree?
I had great fun playing many old games in DosBox. Most of the time these were games I have played in DOS times before, decades ago. But I cannot say I generally had a worse experience in DosBox. YMMV.
*Good Old Games
exult is part of the early 2000s tradition of from scratch rewrites of beloved retro videos games to make them work on linux. I played it a lot back then, and there was definitely a window when you had much better time playing rewrites rather than attempting to dosbox