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First post, by tauro

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Hi there people,

I'm trying to get dott to work on an old Pentium MMX (166 Mhz), 64 MB EDO RAM, Sound card is ALS100 (with OPL). Works fine in all games, but dott is giving me headache.

Sound works (voices, effects), but music doesn't. All I hear is some kind of corrupted music. It's the same for both the CD and the floppy version.

I was searching like crazy and I managed to find this http://web.archive.org/web/20020713043448/htt … sp?Selection=12, a reference to dottfix.exe. Perhaps this is what I need?

Sadly, the old lucasarts website is no longer there and I couldn't find a way to get this file.

By the way, the system is MS-DOS 6.22.

Reply 1 of 3, by Jorpho

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I was going to link to http://help.disney.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/Lis … s?section=Games , but that has everything except DOTT. Go figure.

There's https://archive.org/details/ftp.lucasarts.com-20130427 , as discussed in LucasArts Patches. .

Alternatively, it seems The Patches Scrolls is still going strong.
http://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/2587/7/

Reply 2 of 3, by clueless1

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Disable cpu cache. DOTT is a speed sensitive game.
edit: setmul is a good tool for doing this in software, rather than going from the BIOS:
SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
OPL3 FM vs. Roland MT-32 vs. General MIDI DOS Game Comparison
Let's benchmark our systems with cache disabled
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Reply 3 of 3, by tauro

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clueless1 wrote:

Disable cpu cache. DOTT is a speed sensitive game.
edit: setmul is a good tool for doing this in software, rather than going from the BIOS:
SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

This was it, you were right.

This line did it:

setmul l1dx

Thanks.

PS: And thanks for the links Jorpho!