I had no idea it was that much of a difference. I will take your word for it and learn how to use Dosbox. Thank you all very much 😀

I don't know how to set up Dosbox but I tried it and its performance seems far from optimal. It was extremely slow. The game (master of orion 1) worked fine without it and I really would like to get vdmsound working and it puzzles me why it isn't installing properly. I'd like to solve this puzzle.

I am having a problem installing VDMSound 2.1.0 (thats the version my download file says). I installed it from sourceforge (several times), unzip it, and double click the icon to start installation. I get the installation files unpacking and it always always always gives me an error about 2/3 of the …