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Vista + DosBox + ZZT

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First post, by ParaSait

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Hi,

I'm having 2 issues when I play ZZT on my Vista laptop. Major and minor.

Major issue is that normally you can shoot by holding shift and then an arrow key, but I can only shoot when I push shift and an arrow key at exactly the same time. Quite hard to play like that 😜
Minor issue is that it's like the beginning of every beep sound effect get cuts off. That's very clear when your character walks, then it's like theres no sound, but if you listen very carefully, there really is (i.e. the very end of the short beep)

I've had the same problems with NTVDM... only in NTVDM the sound is even more screwed up. It's like fart sounds 😁

I've tried it on an xp laptop too and there it works perfectly.

How can I solve this/Can this be fixed?

(DosBox version: 0.73)

Reply 1 of 3, by robertmo

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Reply 2 of 3, by ParaSait

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Yay it works! Didn't even think of that. 😊
Now, any idea on how to solve the little sound issue? (other than "Be Silent"? 😁)

Reply 3 of 3, by Jorpho

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I vaguely recall that it acted something like that on an original DOS machine. I could be wrong, though.

Do you have the cycles set differently on your XP laptop?