type mem > mem.txt
and post the contents of mem.txt here
also post the contents of your config.sys

I seem to have resolved the Memory error issue by trying again with 32Mb installed in the system (which is plenty for all I'm doing anyway, so I'm OK with that).

If you'd still like to see the output of mem, let me know, but otherwise no memory errors and I have 608K of conventional available.

My config.sys is:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /NUMHANDLES=128 /TESTMEM:OFF /Q
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM
BUFFERS=11,0
FILES=60
DOS=UMB
LASTDRIVE=E
FCBS=1,0
DOS=HIGH
DEVICEHIGH= /L:2,5792 =C:\UIDEJR\UIDEJR.SYS /D:MSCD000
STACKS=9,256

Let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks!

No, the CDA track is just music. The speech is in a file (USGOB3.ITK for the NA release I believe).

okay.

I swear I don't remember the music being interrupted when blount speaks when I played this as a kid on my old 386. Perhaps it did and now I'm just thinking of when I later played in via Scummvm (which doesn't seem to do this (both play at once)). I don't suppose there's any physical way of doing this then, short of hacking the game somehow to reference the USGOB3.ITK file from another location/partition while not touching the 'play track' process from the CD? I haven't been able to come up with any ideas though 🙁

Am I crazy in thinking they played both at the same time on my old system? Anyone willing/able to test/confirm?

Thanks again guys.

I do remember some sound cards weren't capable of music and fm synthesis at the same time

However in this case it is a matter of CDA tracks and digital audio speech.

obvious question
Is cda music (you can play the cd in media player ?) coming over the bus or via a cable (not sure if it can come over the bus with an isa card)

Doesn't matter since it works when there is no speech. It just cuts out during speech.

It does if the reason it cuts out is the bus is saturated

Thanks for the replies.

The music is an audio track on the cd and comes over the cd audio cable, not the bus.