Reply 40 of 42, by nrgoskewl
EDIT: I might be wrong with the assumption of a special version. It seems the Audio and Music is just working with AdLib if the CPU/Cycles is slow enough. With faster CPUs it won't find Adlib cards and the Note Symbol (F3) in the Main menu is missing.
I know I'm late to the party, but I recently stumbled on the same SOUND and/or MUSIC problem with Lemmings 1 while trying it with a fresh PCem build.
I played it back in the early 90s on a 286/386 machine and I also remember having BOTH, sound AND music playing in L1 with AdLib only - and definitely without CDROM and CD-Audio because it had only floppy disks.
while installing the PCem build I got the original Lemmings CD from archive.org and witnessed the same sound/music issues. I was wondering if my SB16/AWE32 was misconfigured and not being able to play AdLib music.. or the AWE32 mixer is having silent volumes etc.. but the AdLib SOUND works, the opening Door sound works etc, just not the music.
Now I found this thread again and it brought to my attention that there might be different versions of the game, where some may or may not support sound blaster sound and music directly.
luckily I lately digged deep in my hardware archive and found the disk with lemmings 1 installed from somewhere around 1992-1993.
I fired it up on my virtual 386 dosbox instance and see... there is adlib sound and music at the same time. no cd-audio used.
Turns out it was a cracked release from "The Humble Guys" (TMG) and their .nfo explicitely mentions "adlib/soundblaster" as feature.
30.04.1991 11:21 12.988 ADLIB.DAT
10.05.1991 17:47 2.188 AUTODET.EXE
30.12.1991 13:24 350 AUTOEXEC.LEM
31.03.1991 19:19 20.901 CGAGR0.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 25.696 CGAGR1.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 15.113 CGAGR2.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 15.427 CGAGR3.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 20.851 CGAGR4.DAT
22.04.1991 16:28 22.111 CGAMAIN.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 17.992 CGASPEC0.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 11.442 CGASPEC1.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 13.129 CGASPEC2.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 23.838 CGASPEC3.DAT
21.05.1991 21:30 13.798 FLR.EXE
30.04.1991 12:03 1.056 GROUND0O.DAT
30.04.1991 12:03 1.056 GROUND1O.DAT
30.04.1991 12:03 1.056 GROUND2O.DAT
30.04.1991 12:03 1.056 GROUND3O.DAT
30.04.1991 12:03 1.056 GROUND4O.DAT
23.04.1991 19:18 114 HELP.BAT
23.04.1991 19:16 403 LEM1.DOC
23.04.1991 19:20 384 LEM2.DOC
23.04.1991 19:20 530 LEM3.DOC
03.05.1991 14:17 688 LEM4.DOC
20.09.1991 20:21 31 LEMMI.BAK
20.09.1991 20:24 21 LEMMI.BAT
01.02.1992 14:35 641 LEMMINGS.BAT
20.05.1991 15:03 4.867 LEMMINGS.NFO
30.04.1991 12:13 3.722 LEVEL000.DAT
30.04.1991 12:14 4.519 LEVEL001.DAT
30.04.1991 12:14 4.819 LEVEL002.DAT
30.04.1991 12:15 6.827 LEVEL003.DAT
30.04.1991 12:15 3.889 LEVEL004.DAT
30.04.1991 12:16 7.255 LEVEL005.DAT
30.04.1991 12:16 7.149 LEVEL006.DAT
30.04.1991 12:17 5.253 LEVEL007.DAT
30.04.1991 12:17 7.037 LEVEL008.DAT
30.04.1991 12:18 4.932 LEVEL009.DAT
22.04.1991 16:18 56.472 MAIN.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 4.480 ODDTABLE.DAT
20.05.1991 17:07 66 RUNME.BAT
06.06.2023 00:38 256 RUSSELL.DAT
30.04.1991 12:03 1.056 RUSSELL.SAV
12.04.1991 19:53 12.399 TANDYSND.DAT
22.04.1991 16:31 14.733 TGAMAIN.DAT
29.05.1991 17:40 1 TZ
31.03.1991 19:19 24.464 VGAGR0.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 32.966 VGAGR1.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 22.290 VGAGR2.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 22.775 VGAGR3.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 28.692 VGAGR4.DAT
10.05.1991 17:46 32.749 VGALEMMI.EXE
31.03.1991 19:19 28.655 VGASPEC0.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 18.567 VGASPEC1.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 23.284 VGASPEC2.DAT
31.03.1991 19:19 34.827 VGASPEC3.DAT
57 File(s), 642.917 Bytes
Their .nfo reads:
Lemmings
Psygnosis
Supplier: Eddie Haskel (Thanks for ALL the help!)
Cracking: Sorta Odd way to protect the game
Graphics: Tandy/CGA/EGA/VGA
Controls: Mouse (Suggested)/Joystick/Keyboard
Sound: Adlib/Soundblaster
Cracking/Game Notes: The file Russell.dat is the key to everything..
Greets: EDDIE HASKEL (Thanks for the Game!), JROK (Where did you go?), Neil
(I hate it when THG doea that!)
Some quick greetz go to Sauron (Welcome Aboard!)
The Humble Guys are: The Candyman, Fabulous Furlough, NightWriter, Magnetic
The Slavelord, Predator, Mr. Plato, Fletcher Christian, Lord Blix, Barimor,
The Viper, BamBam, Lord Zombie, The Guch, Eddie Haskel, Funakoshi, Wico,
The Humble Sysop, Drool Master Rick, JROK, Mr.M, Mace Mandella, Belgarion,
The Humble Babe, Harry Lime, Black Plague, Sauron, and our HUMBLE leader,
Gods Gift to the IBM !
+-----------------+
|The Humble Boards|
etc.
the other versions only offer EGA and VGA.
it remains unclear which version this release is based on and whether it has been modified to work like that.