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Problems with Cannon Fodder, Zool, Stunts and SQ4

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First post, by markot

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I have problems with the following games. I have installed Windows 98 but trying to run these games from the command prompt only:

Cannon Fodder
- I can't get this game to start at all. When running this, the screen will just remain black.

Zool
- Same problem as with Cannon Fodder, just a black screen on startup. Have to restart computer.

Stunts
- This game starts well, but when quiting the game, it sometimes gives some EMM386.EXE error and I have to restart the computer.

Space Quest 4
- Gives unable to initialize audio hardware error, if I have installed this game to use Sound Blaster card. If selected Adlib in setup, it doesn't give this error but sound effects are not as good then.

I have Sound Blaster 16 ISA sound card model CT2980. Are there any ideas what could be the problems with these games? For example Duke Nukem 2 works mostly quite good with all Sound Blaster effects turned, but yesterday the game hanged because of the sound card.

Reply 1 of 4, by PhilsComputerLab

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Try running them from DOS, not Windows.

What machine are you using? What memory configuration?

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Reply 2 of 4, by markot

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Motherboard Abit AB-BM6
128 MB RAM
Intel Celeron 400 MHz
S3 Trio 3D/2X

These are the main components. I like to have Windows 98 installed because of the FAT32 support, but always start the computer in DOS mode instead of starting Windows.

Reply 3 of 4, by PhilsComputerLab

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Very fast machine, lots of memory. Could be causing issues.

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Reply 4 of 4, by markot

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Ok, I was able to get Space Quest 4, The Time Rippers running now without the audio initialization error on startup.

I downloaded http://sierrahelp.com/Files/SoundUtilities/SBSIERRA.ZIP file and used sbsierra.exe to patch the sndblast.drv file.

But I could not get this patch to work with sndblast.drv included in the VGA version of Space Quest 1, The Sarien Encounter.

Instead I had to copy the patched sndblast.drv from SQ4 directory to SQ1 and it seemed to work.

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