Greetings from Britania!

This is probably happening because as far as I know, once you copy a file from cdrom to the hard disk, it is copied as "read only". If you change this and reconfigure the sound, it may work.

The sound (music) is not necessarily stored as files on the CD. It could be stored as audio-tracks which the game reads & plays. And those tracks can not simply be copied to the hard disk.

You could try making CUE/BIN images of the CD's and use DOSBox to make everything run from the harddisk, but then it would not be pure DOS 6.22.

http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/shsucdx/index.html

Not sure if it supports CD Audio.

Greetings,

I have verified that the files have been set to read/write, but that didn't solve the issued. Also, the audio in this game consists of Sound Blaster FM music from MIDI files, Sound Blaster FM sound effects, and digital audio files for speech in cutscenes, etc... I do not think there is any CD audio layer or anything like that, since this is basically the diskette version of the problem sold on a CD.

Another odd thing, is that once the contents are copied to the hard disk, the sound no longer functions even when the game is launched from the CD. Just to be sure I wasn't overwriting something needed, I made a backup of the game install directory, copied the contents from the CD, then copied the backup back to the game directory again.

I'm missing something!

I did try running some of these games in DOSbox, but they were just not responsive enough to be tolerable. Instead, I've re-bult an old system just to play these games. Believe me, I have no desire to re-visit DOS at all. I just couldn't get the games running any other way.

Does anyone know of a way to put a CD image on the hard disk that can be mounted under DOS? Would that be shsucdx?

crash. wrote:

Would that be shsucdx?

Yes.