I thought the only music that Quake had was CD audio? If so then you'll probably need to use imgmount to mount a CD image of your quake CD.

As for Dungeon Master 2 how did you setup the audio? General MIDI for Music and SB16 for SFX?

I do not have stonekeep but I do know that there were fixes for stonekeep put into DosBox 0.70. Are you sure that you are using that version? If so make sure that DosBox is set to dynamic core.

Yes, Quake only uses CD music. And the CD music works in DOSbox 0.70, but not in 0.65 (which is too slow to run Quake anyways, I only used it to see if my problems were isolated). The issue with Quake is that, while the music works, the sound does not.

As for DMII, I've tried every digital sound setting in Setup. Sound Blaster, SBPro, and SB16 [port 220, DMA 1, IRQ 5] all work fine (in Setup); Gravis Ultrasound crashes Setup; Everything else gives me nothing.
And for MIDI, I have it set to SBPro, which works in both Setup and the game itself. But the sound effects don't work in the game.

I'm not ruling out the possibility that it might be an issue with my computer. I got a new motherboard since the last time I tried DOSbox. I'm not sure how that would cause any problems, but DMII's sound worked in 0.65 on the old motherboard, and doesn't work in 0.65 or 0.70 on the new one, so.. *shrug*

As for Stonekeep, I didn't know about the patches, or that I had to run it in dynamic mode. It seems to be working better now, though I still get the mouse problems I reported way back -- they seem to be caused by interaction with other programs or something, because it works fine when I minimize everything else.
Also, DOSbox crashes when I try to run Stonekeep fullscreen.

Thanks for the help. One problem down, two to go.
At least Warcraft 2 works perfectly.

Hmmm, for the sound issues try setting your cycles in dosbox.conf to 3000.

Then run the games and get to the point where you should hear sound and see if it works.

In previous versions of DosBox setting too high of a cycle value before starting a game would cause the sound not to work for some games. There have been some fixes for this in 0.70 but this issue will still occur. Since DosBox is set to cycles=auto instead of cycles=3000 like in previous DosBox releases we will probably get these problems alot.

The mouse issue is being worked on but according to Qbix it's difficult to debug.

As for crashing in fullscreen I don't know what to say there except to try different output= values in your dosbox.conf.

cycles=3000 just makes them unplayably slow. No effect on sound whatsoever.

And I'd tried the other output settings previously. None of them worked any better than surface (in point of fact, most of them worked worse).

Alas, it seems there's not much more that can be done.

Hmmm, I'll see if I can test Quake\DM2 later today.

heh. Found the issue. Haven't tried DM2 yet but for Quake the issue is that DosBox is trying to use UltraSound instead of SB. (Previous DosBox releases it automatically chose SB, dunno why it matters now). Anyways set gus=true to gus=false in DosBox.conf and it will work.

Quake works, DM2 doesn't.

Still, thanks for the help.

Okay....

Set Digital Device to:
Soundblaster Pro
Port 220
DMA 1
IRQ 7

MIDI Device
Sound Blaster
Port 388

Hm. Well, it works.
I had to turn the game's sound volume to max and music volume to min and crank my speaker volume much higher than I'd like, but it works.

Much appreciated.

Kailieann wrote:

As for DMII, I've tried every digital sound setting in Setup. Sound Blaster, SBPro, and SB16 [port 220, DMA 1, IRQ 5] all work fine (in Setup); Gravis Ultrasound crashes Setup; Everything else gives me nothing.

Just for completeness, Kailieann: are you aware that you were using the wrong IRQ (5 instead of 7)? "Working" and "Working" can be quite different in DOS 😎

Also, try the "mixer" command inside DOSBox to adjust the sound levels, maybe this helps with your low-volume sounds.

I'd tried combination of IRQ 5 and 7, in both the Setup program and the config file.

I guess I'll just have to screw around with the mixer settings, find something that works, and just throw it into the game's batch file.