Here's a thought:
Vlad, let it play through the ENTIRE intro without hitting a key to skip. Will it slowdown/crash? It did for me, even WITH digi.drv replaced.

For me, it plays the whole intro without ANY flaw.

Then, after the 4th enemy on the palace wall (everytime the 4th! I don't even get to the quicksand) the slowdown occurs.

Okay - I'll test some more with my floppy version then.

PrivatePanic, you could always try emulating the Mac version! See here:
showthread.php?s=&threadid=492

See this thread for more information:
showthread.php?s=&threadid=588

Stiletto wrote:

Here's a thought:
Vlad, let it play through the ENTIRE intro without hitting a key to skip. Will it slowdown/crash? It did for me, even WITH digi.drv replaced.

Very often it would slow down to a crawl just as the throne room door would open. No longer happened after th patch IIRC, but it could have been a coincidence.

V.

Yippeeh!

I got Basilisk II running 😀

Now I only have to find PoP2 for Mac... any hints? 😉

Maybe Nicht can tell you where you might be able to buy it. Also, try eBay.
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?quer … of%20Persia%202

Here's an American site to buy it from:
http://www.e-cdrom.com/prinofper2bo.html

Here's another site to buy it:
http://www.timesmm.com/title72.html

Try Amazon as well.
http://www.amazon.de

This guy has it for trade:
http://gametz.com/?x=x&A=Games&attr=Macintosh … d%20the%20Flame

The demo's here:
http://www.applefritter.com/software/classicg … op2demo.sit.hqx

VOGONS does not promote piracy, PrivatePanic... didn't you read the disclaimer at the bottom of the page? 😀

Generally speaking, Prince of Persia 2 and Prince of Persia Collection both include the PC and the Macintosh versions. If you truly own the game on CD (unlike me with the floppy version), you should have it already. 😉

Try the demo, see if you can get it working in Basilisk II. When I saw Nicht's screenshots, I knew I had to try to recommend it, regardless if the music was a little slow.

Stiletto wrote:

Maybe Nicht can tell you where you might be able to buy it.

If i remember correctly mine was clearance-rack item at Half-Price books.

Generally speaking, Prince of Persia 2 and Prince of Persia Collection both include the PC and the Macintosh versions.

That was the bonus. I remember trying it on Basilisk just for compatibility testing and was stunned when I found that they had redone all the graphics. Very nice.

PoP2 isn't quite as "enhanced", but still, the added resolution is easy on the eyes.

...regardless if the music was a little slow.

Actually, it's intolerably slow. If you turn off the music and skip the cut-scenes, it seems fine. Note, that I haven't done in-depth testing.

Ok 😀

(subliminal obligatory link: mac.underdogs.org)

(yeah, but it's subliminally not there, surprisingly. 😀 )

I never said it was there. But it is an obligatory link.

well guys since you are talking ab out prince of persia 2, so maybe you can help me

I read that some said that prince of persia sound and music runs perfect ... the music is ok here ... but the sound doesnt work at all 🙁

for exampel when I kill a bad guy then he falls down, I cant hear his scream I only hear som kind of error sound or something like that ... its the same problem with all sounds,

In the game intro I cant hear the man tell the story only music!!

its sad thing 🙁 ... this game is my first game on PC!! I love it ... so help me someone 😁

thanks ...

Tried DOSBox?

BTW, way to revive a thread from November 2002.

well, sorry for another revival, but i have the exact same problem and that patch did not work... did anyone come up with a better solution for this sound-freeze problem of pop2 later on?

The only true solution right now is to emulate a DOS-based system within Windows. Best free one right now is DOSBox, supported here in our forums. Still some bugs regarding saving, and you have to make sure you configure the game "right", but if your system is powerful enough to run DOSBox well, then use it.

Hopefully the success of The Sands of Time will lead to a new collection of the PoP titles, rewritten for Windows. One can always hope... (I HAVE heard of a new rewrite for a PDA or something, forget where...)

I have some problem with this game in dosbox. After some playing, saving and loading shortcuts in game (alt-g, alt-l and alt-q also) become unworkable. Simply no effect on pressing it.

Phew what an exhaustive (and exhausting) thread... 😀

Personally, could not get the damn game working right under VDMSound.

DosBox worked a charm with the DIGI.DRV replacement and these changes to the dosbox.conf file:

1[sblaster]
2#irq=7
3irq=5
4
5[dos]
6#xms=true
7#ems=true
8xms=false
9ems=false

(or preferably make these changes to a copy of dosbox.conf, say prince2.conf, and use that as your config file when starting DosBox)

If you are having sound issues, it is often because you got the IRQ wrong.

the game does weird things when the irq is wrong. Most will just crash or have sound stuttering constantly, but this one is different. specifically, the first sound for a scene works, but later ones act weird. it's liek the game doesnt' know one soud has stoppe dplaying, and waists for it to finish to play the other ones. if you are aving this problem, you can tell by the fact that the game will continue when it seems stuck if you pause and unpause it.