First post, by blombardo
First off - THANKS to any who offer a suggestion.
How do I get DosBox to emulate GameBlaster sound? - All attempts I've made have resulted in zero sound at all from my games.
I'm using
Dfend reloaded 1.2.1
Dosbox 0.74 (newer than the .62 in this post - but seems to have the same issue- aka not working, no sound)
(on a windows 7 64 laptop with crossfire graphics/amd a8)
I've tried changing oplmode=cms in DOSBox.conf (along with sb1 sb2 sbpro and various other settings)
I've manually used the setup of my games to select Game Blaster sound (Quest for glory 1 - Silpheed - any old sierra game basically)
The CMS sound was far superior to adlib in its initial release... (since I played the games that way as a kid, I want to hear them that way as an adult) I've tried using the Roland setting - which provides comparable sound (but every few screens the roland will leave the last note permanently playing under all other tones... and will not go away until I turn off and restart dosbox - in game muting does nothing...)
-Note I'm not asking for troubleshooting of the roland option... I want Game Blaster sound. PLEASE dont make me buy an old 486 machine and play on a dinosaur...
Other links with info about this:
Websites with info:
DOSbox Adlib sound regression?
3 page discussion of how CMS is broken in emulator - and requires specific editing of the DOS config file (that much be manually changed for each game?)
CMS Emulation Removed in DOSBox 0.62
Info that doesnt help - but mentions a problem- CMS Emulation Removed in DOSBox 0.62
http://devtidbits.com/category/dosbox/
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Creative Music System / Game Blaster
* Motherboard = HP laptop dv6 6135dx
* Processor type and speed a8
* Amount and type of RAM 16gb
* Video board w/ RAM amount and type ATI
* Sound board -na
* Operating system -Win7 64bit
* Game name (and version, if applicable) -All Sierra titles - na
* Description of problem (be detailed: saying "it's jerky" doesn't help, saying "the player sprites seem to be jerky when I'm pressing any of the arrow keys" does) (zero sound when selecting Game Blaster)
* Reproducibility of problem (always, only once, always but only on a specific level, etc.) Always
* Sound mode used --- (tried various sound modes - see abobe)
* Video mode (Software, OpenGL, Direct3D, or Glide, and resolution)
* Version of emulator (for VDMSound, probably 2.0.4 or 2.1.0; for DOSBox, 0.58+) .72
* Steps already attempted to solve the problem - ( yes - Spent 6 hours over the past week searching for an answer all over...)
---------------Edit-------------
In the README - there is some not helpful (to me) info:
"- Creative CMS/Gameblaster
The is the first card released by Creative Labs(R). The default
configuration places it on address 220. It is disabled as default."
It does not tell me how to enable it...