First post, by tomexplodes
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I found a place to download a zip file of the game already installed. I've searched for this game for nearly 20 years and this is the only downloadable copy I've ever found. I've NEVER found a physical copy and it isn't for sale ANYWHERE. So just prefacing with that, yes, I found and downloaded this game somewhere.
So, here's the deal. If I run DINO.BAT in DOSBox, it runs perfectly fine, there is sound, la la la. All good. When I copy it over to my DOS machine and run it, there is no sound. It runs otherwise, but neither my PC speaker nor my desktop speakers make any noise at all. Here is the DINO.BAT file:
Ex /dSTANDDAC * EGA *
and here is EX.BAT:
Echo off
cls
Echo - - - - - -
Echo The Dinosaur Discovery Kit
Echo Version 2.0
Echo (C)Copyright First Byte Corporation 1988-1990.
Echo - - - - - -
If NOT .%1 == ./dIbmACPA Goto L1
dac
:L1
metashel /I
speech %1 %2 %4
ddk %3 disc
Remove
metashel /K
If NOT .%1 == ./dIbmACPA Goto L2
dac /r
:L2
aaaaaaaand here is a list of files in the directory.
CONFIG.BAT
DAC.EXE
DATA.DIN
DDK.EXE
DESKTOPD.CFG
DINO.BAT
DINO.OVR
DISC
DISC.EGA
DISC.EGB
DISC.EGC
DISC.EGE
DISK.DAT
EX.BAT
INSTALL.BAT
METASHEL.EXE
NOJOYSTI
REMOVE.EXE
RUNMENU.EXE
SPEECH.EXE
STANDDAC.DRV
Config and Install.bat both do basically nothing. I've already made this long enough. Hopefully SOMEONE knows SOMETHING about this game and can tell me how to make the stupid sound work.
It's only been 20 years, after all.
THANK YOU!
1.) MS-DOS 6.22, Pentium 233mhz, 32mb RAM, S3 Trio64, Sound Blaster Pro 2
2.) Windows 98SE with Unofficial SP3, AMD Athlon 1.3ghz, 768mb RAM, Geforce 4 MX 440 64mb AGP, Sound Blaster Live! Value