First post, by SirGraham
In the the CVS builds (earliest that was tested is from July 3 2005 and latest is from February 1 2006), when you start the hardware configuration from the INSTALL.EXE menu in the three Microprose adventures (Return of the Phantom, Rex Nebular, Dragonsphere), the program will freeze (although not completely, you can press Esc to return to the menu). It does not happen in DOSBox 0.63 (tested with same DOSBOX.CONF). This is apparently a hardware detection issue, because when I disabled mpu401 in the CVS build, the configuration program worked (although with a little delay during detection). In 0.63 it works smoothly without disabling mpu401.
(By the way, how come 0.63 requires different DLLs than the CVS builds?)
Since this thread is about the Microprose adventures, I thought it would be appropriate to bring up an issue in Return of the Phantom. This is not a regression, it happens in all versions.
When the main menu of the game comes up, there's supposed to be an evil laughter. For some reason, this sound effect is completely corrupt under DOSBox (listen to attached WAV), while the other sound effects are fine. I tested both CD and floppy versions and it's the same in both. Both versions don't work with VDMSound by the way.
Incidentally, when I tried to install the CD version under DOSBox I got this weird message:
I didn't know how to overcome it in DOSBox (I mounted a C: drive, not only the CD-ROM drive), so I ended up installing the game on a different computer with Win98 and moving the files to my XP machine on which I'm running DOSBox...