Riikcakirds wrote on 2020-12-14, 16:02:
I've been trying to get this game working, running an original version. It runs from both floppy or HD but then blank screen after typing in the page number for copy protection. It works in dosbox.
First game I have that doesn't work on a 486 simply caused the presence of a ISA Sb16. Running with a ct2230, even without initializing the card with diagnose.exe and selecting no audio will still hang the game. Removing the sb16 from system and the game works.
I've spent the last hour trouble shooting this game. Here's what I discovered:
- if you use MS DOS 6.22 HIMEM and EMS386 and zero sound drivers loaded it runs
- if you use MS DOS 5.0 it locks up
- if you use Creative sound drivers it locks up (CTCU is enough to make it freeze)
- I tried with my MT-32 but without the sound drivers loaded I couldn't use SOFTMPU.
- If I try with my MT-32 WITH sound drivers loaded, I get a brief sound and I can see it's communicating with my MT-32 but after 2 seconds this stops and everything freezes.
Basically if I don't load the sound drivers, I only get PC speaker sound but the game runs fine. It seems the game really does not like Creative cards.
Retro game fanatic.
IBM PS1 386SX25 - 4MB
IBM Aptiva 486SX33 - 8MB - 2GB CF - SB16
IBM PC350 P233MMX - 64MB - 32GB SSD - AWE64 - Voodoo2
PIII600 - 320MB - 480GB SSD - SB Live! - GF4 Ti 4200
i5-2500k - 3GB - SB Audigy 2 - HD 4870