First post, by cyberluke
Does anyone play Chaos Engine?
I got this CD version, which got some extra video footage. But I can tell you, making 610kb of conventional memory including sound card driver and cd-rom driver was pain in the ass. Also this CD version runs great on Pentium. The floppy version is playable only on 386 and 486.
But right now I have problem with music. Because I have Roland SC-55, set into MT-32 mode. So I want sound: Sound Blaster, music: Roland. It works only on 386DX on some no-name sound card. But even so, after 1st level, it will hang up LOADING.
Pentium 1 133MMX. Tried Sound Blaster 32 PnP (AWE32) and Sound Blaster Vibra16. Everytime the CD version hangs up on LOADING screen. It works with sound and music disabled.
Floppy version works out of the box, but plays too fast and utilities for slowdown are not working.
This game in DosBox on Intel i7 4GHz stutter. Tried to play with settings. And I want Roland music! There is some remastered GoG version as well, but I did not enjoy it.
So far the only way how to play is to use floppy version and play it on 386DX 40Mhz.
The CD version hangs on LOADING screen, something wrong with Roland music. Also Floppy version plays Roland music in the menu. CD version plays some WAV music in menu and will switch to Roland music in-game. I guess there is some bug.
Does anyone know where to ask for help or can anyone play this game with Roland SC-55 or MT-32?
My last guess will be to try SoftMPU 🙂
I'm so lucky, same goes with Desert Strike and Jungle Strike. I am 1% gamer. I always play the 1% that does not work in DosBox or on Pentium 1 machine with Roland. They say like 99% of games works in DosBox and FreeDOS 🙂 ...so half of my collection is the 1% of gaming history, it seems.