Normally all that stuff should have been done by the installer,
but something went wrong. Glad it works now.

theres still a lack of background music though, even though i have a midi driver selected:(

I once had a similar problem with midi music in a game (don't remember the title), but I got sound by playing with the settings in windows. You might try changing the default midi device in the audio properties and see if that makes any difference and also make sure that all the volume sliders are all the way up.

im not sure what you meen, but midi's play fine in winamp or media player, and monkey island worked perfectly...

The soundcode in the original Discworld is buggy. If you haven't downloaded the patch for the game, I suggest you do so.

where do i find that?

Discworld 1 Install. PLEASE help.

this?

ive tried it, but i just get a heap of cant make file errors:(

Actually, there is a version of Discworld, either from Abandonia or from HOTU, that doesn't include the sound drivers properly and gives the errors you describe. With an original version of the game, there is no such problem. (It also works when combining those two versions, but I didn't just say that).

hmm... ok i've just noticed something, when i run the installer, the .BAT file it contains

echo off
dwu -s
if errorlevel 1 goto install
goto gorun
:install
dwu -i
dwu -g
call gdrivers
setsound
goto run
:gorun
dwu -g
:run
dwb

and dosbox doesn't use standard dos language... so anyway there are 2 other .BAT files, that the installer use's

GDRIVER.BAT

echo off
xcopy D:drivers

and...

CONFIG.BAT

echo off
setsound

in that order. like i said dosbox doesn't use standard language, so it doesn't know what 'xcopy' is witch is why it fails

...and THAT is why it messed up initially, so then, like wd said, copy the contents of d:/drivers to the install root, but now there read-only, so i removed the read-only on setsound.exe... but then i still can't hear the midi's so i took a guess, disable the read-only on the rest of the files, and now it works:) so yay me, and thanks to everyone that helped

infact, i just re-installed it, and i didn't even need the patch:D