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First post, by silverfoxx

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Alright, after studying everything i now have everything and it works. This is a sheet that explains in one thread how to make tex work. evrything is summed up to make it easier.

This tutorial is made for running The Pandora Directive work under windows XP with VDMsound

STEP 1:
First of edit the sounds.ini to:

sound inf:

[DIGI_BOARDS]
1) Sound Blaster 1.0 = 0xe000,0,1,1
2) Sound Blaster Pro = 0xe001,3,2,1
3) Sound Blaster 16 = 0xe018,3,3,1
4) Sound Blaster AWE32 = 0xe018,3,5,1
5) Microsoft Sound System {Microsoft Sound Sys} = 0xe00e,3,6,1
6) Ensoniq Soundscape = 0xe020,3,7,1
7) Pro AudioSpectrum = 0xe005,1,8,1
😎 Pro AudioSpectrum 16 {Pro AudioSpect 16} = 0xe006,3,9,1
9) Adlib Gold = 0xe008,3,11,1
10) ESS AudioDrive = 0xe01c,3,18,1
11) Gravis Ultrasound = 0xe025,2,19,1
12) Gravis Ultrasound Max = 0xe029,2,20,1
13) Roland RAP-10 = 0xe022,2,17,1
14) Sound Galaxy Nova16 = 0xe00e,3,21,1
15) SB 1.0 (No Verify) = 0xe000,0,1,1,1
16) SB Pro (No Verify) = 0xe001,1,2,1,1

STEP 2:
next edit config.ini to:

[DIGI_CONFIG]
BoardNum=2
IoAddr=0x220
DMA=1
Int=5
Volume=97
ReverseStereo=No

[MIDI_CONFIG]
BoardNum=12
IoAddr=0x330
DigiDrums=No
Volume=100

[SYSTEM]
LastPlayer=KENNETH
Pass=1
ChainInt8=Yes
ChainInt1C=Yes
WinMemReserve=0
Label=PANDORA

STEP 3:
now edit tex4.exe:

Get a editor for .exe files (HEX editor):

http://www.kibria.de/frhed.html

now modify offset 0x000BFB1C or 0x000BFAE4

and just change that from CLI (FA) to NOP (90)

STEP 4:
Download VMDsound (http://ntvdm.cjb.net/)

Get VDMlaunchpad and the latest version of VDMsound

to make a VDMshortcut, right-click for the drop menu and click on run with vdmsound

STEP 5:
on the VDMsound shortcut goto advanced and then:

goto compatibility:

turn on:

give it some XMS memory (1024kb)
enable DOSX
enable MSCDEX

keep ems, vesa, low level network support disabled

goto performance:

set on try to reduce CPU:

and set it to low usage

goto soundblaster:

enable soundblaster emulation
port: 220, IRQ: 5, 8-bit DMA: 1, 16-bit DMA: 5
dev: directsound

finally, goto Pandora.bat and enable compatiblity for windows 95 with no visual effects and 640x480

I hope this one helps some people better. Ive sent the last week searching trough threads i just hope this makes it faster.

I got this information from all this experts and if you still cant figure it out goto:

showthread.php?s=&threadid=1326&perpage=20&hi … ra&pagenumber=2

Good luck all, for every pc its different i just hope this helps!

[note: this is not finalized]

Last edited by silverfoxx on 2003-09-07, 18:46. Edited 1 time in total.

How do i get pandora to work propperly?!

Reply 1 of 3, by Nicht Sehr Gut

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Originally posted by silverfoxx Alright, after studying everything i now have everything and it works. enable soundblaster em […]
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Originally posted by silverfoxx Alright, after studying everything i now have everything and it works.

enable soundblaster emulation
port: 220, IRQ: 5, 8-bit DMA: 1, 16-bit DMA: 5
dev: directsound

finally, goto Pandora.bat and enable compatiblity for windows 95 with no visual effects and 640x480

Well I'm glad it's finally working for you (was afraid you were going to have a seizure if you didn't...), but why are you using an IRQ of 5? ...and why use compatibility mode settings (Win95/640x480/etc...)?