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We need more brains!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I meant we need more details.

How did you install, how did you mount, how did you configure?

With the CD version I have it in my d drive and mount it in dosbox as:

mount d d:\ -t cdrom

Most games I seem to get running fine with default settings only needing to change the cycles. I'm not exactly a DOSbox wiz.

For the demo version I've tried running it off my Inherit the earth CD with doxbox directly and I've also copied it to the old game folder I mounted as c in dosbox.

you mount a c drive as well right ?

haha, of course =)

Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to install it.

with the risk of sounding lazy. could you point me to demo ? I'll see if I can get it running and saving

The demo itself doesn't actually allow you to "play" it is automated by uses the game's actual engine to show you the intro and how the game runs. Before computers could handle mpeg4, that was how trailers were released 😉

I'll see if I can upload that demo somewhere. Thanks for the help!

What would be a good place to upload the demo? I've zipped it up from my Inherit the Earth CD 😉

rapidshare.com ?

disk 1
disk 2

wow, he's good

khalbrae wrote:

(...) even the demo version fails to run properly.

Demo works fine here by me. Selected Sound Blaster Pro and IRQ 7 during the sound configuration phase.

In what way does it fail for you?

Hm... that demo seems to be a bit different from mine. This demo you install and for some reason it runs fine... but my demo is one you run right off the CD.

Really all of the Might and Magic demos on the CD seem to experience some sort of issue that also seems to somewhat replicate in the legit copy of the game (like really long slowness/delay in Might and Magic 3 when switching scenes. The Darkside of Xeen demo just freezes at the word "inconcievable". The Clouds demo I have uploaded freezes at the same spot it would in the real version, right after Crodo says "I am Crodo". Only the World of Xeen demo seems to run right somehow, actually, scratch that. I've recorded it in DOSBOX to try to show it as an example of how it works fine, but half of the vocal audio doesn't seem to record to DOSbox despite half of the voices working and the midi recording too).

Anyway, I just bundled the demos in question up in a zip and uploaded them temporarily into the space being used for my future Heroes of Might and Magic shrine on RPGclassics. I'll be taking down the link in a week.

http://tartarus.rpgclassics.com/homm1/DEMOS.zip

I don't have time to figure out how to mount and run those demos. If you want help, please give me the exact mount commands, the exact command to start the demo(s) and what is not working.

you don't need to mount them, just copy them to your hard drive in whatever folder you've mounted as C and run them from there, the command is just demo (except might and magic 3, that's "mm3 v s" for VGA and sound blaster

MM3 seems to use dos get time for timing. However at the time (skull appears to freeze for 10 seconds) the game is mainly
messing around with allocating memory and freeing it again. checking the dos version. setting memory allocation strategy a few times in a row. Just as if it doesn't get the memory as it expects it to get it.

Btw I had remove the attribute read only from your directories. (there is a warning in the console about it). Not sure if that helps with anything though. might be a cdrom detection.

It's waiting on a SoundBlaster event that never triggers.
It might be missing a cue. I'll look into it.

Got it. They've hard-coded the IRQ as 5.
You can either edit your DOSBox.conf (should work for all of them), or edit the .cfg files (which works only for DARK and XEEN. I haven't looked at how the other two set their configs). To edit the .cfg files, you'll see this:
07002002030020020500
the "05" is the IRQ. You need to change that to 07.

I also figured out why the other half of the voices don't capture when I use the demo. I ran it with a different CD in, it turns out the World of Xeen demo uses CD audio for the character voices that aren't hard-coded into the game. Any way to make DOSbox capture the CD audio being used as well?

And yes, changing it to IRQ 5 DOES fix the problems with my actual game too. Thanks so much! Wonder why it worked with an IRQ 7 SB pro back when I ran it on my 486 all those years ago? You know, back when Dr Sbaitso used to always talk sass.