Start the game by typing f2b -2

The game got another issue with DOSBox too. The stereo sound is reversed, so for the best gaming experience you have to play in mono. Do this by picking the regular Soundblaster as output device in the game options. Not Soundblaster Pro or 16.

You are also doing double work by using DT. DOSBox is perfectly capable of mounting CD-images directly:

imgmount d "X:\path\to\your\image.iso" -t iso

Thanks for all that. the command -2 is working. i effectively noticed that the stereo was inverted but that's not a big deal anyway but if i mount the image directly with dosbox will it be faster than a single speed cdrom drive ? I read the instruction and the intro in dosbox and there is nothing that tells us what is the speed of the cdrom so which option is the best to get the maximum speed ? is there another driver like mscdex that will run faster ?

thanks again

well the cdrom in dosbox is actually too fast 😉
we are working on faking it to be slower currently

too fast ? so i guess some game can't take it ans they see it as single speed drive ? is that it ? that's kind of strange but possible depend of how the software was build i suppose.

I would not be surprised if Fade to Black is the only well-known game that specifically tries (and fails) to detect whether a drive is faster than single-speed.

Thanks for the -2 addition - that got the game working - shame about the stereo sound being reversed! Once again, the Vogons site has helped with a classic DOS game! Has to be one of the friendliest and helpfulist(?) sites on the web!

I have this running in DOSBox using the DOSBox Game Loader front end, using 40000 cycles and using overlay. I am running it in 640x400 (vesa) with no problem.

Sorry, this may be a little late, but someone else might find the tip useful. The reversed speaker output issue can be worked around by using reversed headphones.

Reversed headphone is a good idea for anyone! But I don't have/use headphones - so no good for me, but might be a lightbulb for others who didn't think of that - so thanks!

Hopefully DOSBox gets a fix for the reversed sound issue, since it affects a good number of games. Even a .conf switch to reverse it manually would be better than nothing.

HunterZ wrote:

Even a .conf switch to reverse it manually would be better than nothing.

Yep, would love to see a switch like that 😀

A lot of people have mentioned they would, but I think the official response is that they'd rather find a real fix for the reversed stereo issue. Unfortunately I haven't seen any discussion on it lately.

UK_John wrote:

Reversed headphone is a good idea for anyone! But I don't have/use headphones - so no good for me, but might be a lightbulb for others who didn't think of that - so thanks!

To continue with the brazenly obvious, if you don't want to cut up any wires, for five bucks or so you could construct your own stereo-reverser from two RCA-to-3.5 mm adapters that would work with any set of speakers. The setup might pick up stray signals a little easily, though.

I use integrated laptop speakers these days, so cut-n-splice isn't an option :p