I have every old sierra game working with full sound and speed in dosbox. Just set the sound as "Sound Blaster" and for music "Sound Blaster or compatibles" (Sound blaster w/o compatibles gets you speech/digital effects in some games wheres compatbles uses adlib)

Remember to set the cycles only as high as needed because these games have timer issues. I set mine to about "9000" for best results but this will vary depending on how fast your CPU is.

Cool, so I just got to get a hang of DOSBOX.

Just remember to mount your cdrom drive if the game needs a cd.

Good, I got PQ vga up and running with sound on it..

How do I load saves, then? Im entering in the directory I have them at, but when I do it in dosbox, it says its invalid. I entered in -c mount C C:\saves after the file to open the game, but still cant load my previous saves.

It freezes up after Berts park drug bust, wanted to see if that was still the case in Dosbox. Have no idea how to implement the patch that supposedly corrects that error.

Just mount "c" as the directory where the game is located -

mount c: c:\sierra\pq1

Then select "Restore" in the game and it should work. Remember to keep the cycles low enough to avoid any timer bugs.

I havent been able to actually install the game correctly on the C drive for some reason. I get the directory C:/Sierra and a batch file, but I cannot run the batch file.

Damn, its because I cant use the windows install because of my video card.

Ok, I got what you were saying this time, I nod only di it load, but it got me through the spot where it was freezing, good stuff.

Is it supoosed to be midi sound for VGA, though?

When you were referring to setting soundblaster, was that during installation or in DOSbox, because if its in DOSbox I cant figure out how.

During the installation. Go into the game's diretcory (sierra\pq1) and run install.exe and choose "Sound Blaster" for speech and "Sound blaster / Adlib" for music. 😀 You'll have to test for a good cycle amount to get driving scenes playable and to avoid any timer bugs.

I keep getting this thing about 'out of environment space', then it skips over the sound and other options 'illegal command:what'...

By the way, thanks for all the help.

treerider wrote:

I keep getting this thing about 'out of environment space', then it skips over the sound and other options 'illegal command:what'...

By the way, thanks for all the help.

In the install or the game? 😖 Try lowering the cycles a bit to get rid of troublesome error messages.

Oh, this is where my topic went. Sorry mods, I should have read the guidelines.

I pretty much picked up where I left off in my other topic.