I tried the game Captive on Dosbox 0.62 with with any emulation of Sound Blaster and for those who works, the sounds are less beautiful, it's like if there's less Treble to the sound... you know what I mean? Why on Dosbox 0.61 the sound is cleaner and not on Dosbox 0.62?
Of course, I'm still playing the game on Dosbox 0.61, but it's strange that the sound is less clean! Can you answer please?
Try using the Sound Blaster 16 mixer util. It's new in .62
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Captive doesn't support SB16 and I guess that the same bug could happen.
A question: What kind of Sound Blaster does Doxbox 0.61 support?
read dosbox.conf
Well, I looked in Readme.txt and it's Sound Blaster Pro 8-bit Mono.
heh, not whole readme.txt was updated to the new version.
look into dosbox.conf you can choose which sb you want to use.
For Dosbox 0.62? I know!
But I'm talking about Dosbox 0.61! I found that on Dosbox 0.62, the sound is less clean than on Dosbox 0.61. I tried with some games, and it's all the same thing: The sound is less clean. Is anybody else have noticed this?
i wanted to say that you should change sbtype in dosbox in order to check whether the quality is poor only with one type or with all types.
Have you read my first post?
I tried the game Captive on Dosbox 0.62 with any emulation of Sound Blaster...
The sound quality is... well, not poor, but less beautiful with any type of SB.
yeah, sorry.
So try turning off mixer in dosbox:
mixer=false
It doesn't work!
Download the zip file in my attachment and listen the difference.
Is this the game called Captive 1 that is available on HotU?
I wanna be sure so I can compare. 🤣
Ieremiou
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Helping Debug DOSBox.
Ok this is a strange game. It seems to have issues with cycles being to high.
If you have it around say 4100 or so (not sure how precise this is from computer to computer) the soundfxs and music will work properly.
At around 4250+ the sound may or may not work.
It seems this game NEEDs to be played at low cycles for sound to work... That's quite odd. hmm.
Takes a while to figure out how this game works.
Just getting to the base is a challenge if you never played it. Lol.
Amazing Resource here
http://home.att.net/~captive/
Although I'm kinda lost with trying to get past this roller wall. 🤣.
Ieremiou
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Helping Debug DOSBox.
Yes, it's Captive 1 from Mindscape and I know how to play: I'm on mission 10!
To push roller wall, right-click the Up arrow on the screen.
You sure that the cycles of Dosbox influences the sound quality of the game?
It does for me.. very strangely.. yah I figured that out after messing around with it a bit more 🤣.
Ieremiou
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Helping Debug DOSBox.
I'm back!
I tried changing the cycles and it doesn't change anything. Music and sounds work, but the sound quality of Dosbox 0.62 or 0.63 under Captive is less clean than on Dosbox 0.61. But on Dosbox 0.61, I got sometimes that fuck*** error (just look my other post about it) and the music of the game doesn't work perfectly. So, am I obligated to play Captive with a less good sound quality or there's something I can do to improve it?
Something strange that happens on Dosbox 0.61: At the start of the game, right after the introduction sequence and right before the screen of the game to appear, I hear a small "tac" in the speakers like if the volume of the sounds become louder, you know what I mean? In Dosbox 0.62 and 0.63, this doesn't happen!
What can I do?
Come on! COME ON! Nobody knows? It's a long time that I wait an answer! 😢
