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Re: Lost in time

Posted on 2005-06-15, 20:19

According to my systems programming manual, it is dependent on the CD-ROM device driver. The actual driver, not MSCDEX, nor DOS itself. A quick check reveals that the common Oak CD-ROM driver included with Windows 98 uses HSG.

Re: Lost in time

Posted on 2005-06-15, 19:23

You'd be more compatible with unpatched LIT. I have no idea how many other games are borked in this way. I'd suspect that there wouldn't be too many programs that handle this incorrectly. I guess it's more likely that a bad programmer would ignore a zero byte at the start of the return structure and …

Re: Lost in time

Posted on 2005-06-15, 18:14

Hmmm... Seems LIT doesn't use the Audio QSubChannel, but instead uses IOCTL INPUT subfunction 01 - determine the position of the read head. (This uses the QSubChannel internally). The problem is that this subfunction returns the position of the read head in either HSG or Red Book format. This is at …

Re: Delta V CD with sound

Posted on 2005-06-15, 13:23

So much for Bethesda: "Delta V is not supported in Windows XP, I gather you already know that. There is not much we can do to help you here. We sent the documentation we have and that is the limit of the support we can give for this title." Oh well, didn't expect much anyway.

Re: Lost in time

Posted on 2005-06-15, 01:18

Lowering cycles won't help. LIT synchs its cutscenes to the Q channel from CD audio playback. DOSBox doesn't seem to support that. The second cutscene, when talking to the time agent, does indeed crash.

Re: Lost in time

Posted on 2005-06-14, 19:46

I get the distortion when talking to Aruba through the hole behind the poster (the cutscene plays way too fast, without any sync to the audio). Haven't tried any further. The games list mentions that the cdrom should be mounted with -ioctl, but that doesn't make a difference in my case.

Re: Delta V CD with sound

Posted on 2005-06-14, 18:34

Okay, I've sent them a reply. I hope this gets solved. Delta V isn't a very good game. The graphics are rather good and it's nice for a quick blast, but it gets boring rather quickly (the programmers seemed to be more concerned with creating a technically impressive game rather than making on that's …

Re: Delta V CD with sound

Posted on 2005-06-14, 16:49

I've tried sb1,sb2,sbpro1,sbpro2 and sb16 for the type and IRQs 5 and 7. All give the same result. What's weird is that other games using the Miles sound drivers work perfectly. I've e-mailed Bethesda Softworks' support department but, to be honest, I don't really expect much help from them.

Delta V CD with sound

Posted on 2005-06-14, 14:17

Hi, I've been trying to get the CD version of Delta V to work under DOSBox. Even though the games list say Delta V is fully supported, I can't get it to work properly with sound enabled. - If I disable digitised sound, it works fine. - When choosing Sound Blaster/Compatible or Sound Blaster Pro/16, …

Re: King's Quest 6 CD Intro

Posted on 2005-06-06, 18:41

Okay, it seems my suspicions were correct, although the numbers were off. The game is decompressing frames ahead of time to video memory, using paged 320x200x256. Since DOSBox 0.61, display timing has changed, unfortunately not for the better. Other games that suffer from this are "James Bond: The …

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