DOS Games made for DOS require an emulator to run on Windows. Use DOSBox or a frontend like D-Fend Reloaded and read this guide to play DOS games on your Windows PC.
A clue book was published for the game, titled Balancing the Scales.
The Ultima VII part 2 box contained: a cloth map of the Serpent Isle, the book Beyond the Serpent Pillars, 7 x 3.5" disks. Some foreign editions contain a paper map instead of a cloth one.
The add-on The Silver Seed box contained: the Silver Seed Play Guide, a 3.5" disk.
Ultima VII: Complete Edition (1993) included all the items while The Complete Ultima VII CD (1994) included everything except the cloth maps which were replaced with paper maps. Most other compilations did not include the trinkets and came with electronic versions of the documentation.
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