If memory serves, VMware Workstation's virtual sound hardware is an ES1371 and the driver from Creative's site works. https://support.creative.com/Products/Product … Others&CatName=

Thanks, I wasn't aware SourceForge has that feature. Given their past shenanigans, however, those hashes would be more reassuring on dosbox.com.

The thread on an alternative download site for DOSBox brought up an interesting question, that is how to trust an unofficial mirror with no established reputation. The suggestion to ask the developers for their blessing before putting up such a mirror is well and good as a matter of courtesy but …

With my MoM 1.2 CD, I manually copy the 'game' sub-directory to my hard disk and run install.exe from the destination directory to configure sound. The game should run without the CD then.