Please write down EXACTLY what you do once you start Dosbox, so what mounting you do and so on. Did you install the game from within Dosbox?

Alone in the Dark uses CD music as music, so the best thing to do is make a bin/cue file out of your CD and use imgmount to mount it.

USE MORE UPPER-CASE LETTERS?

When you run TATOU.COM there's an option to configure sound. Make sure the settings are on Sound Blaster or compatible, address 220, DMA 1 and IRQ 7.

don't know about alone in the dark, but if it's working a bit like Tomb Raider does, using Dosbox in Vista, assuming you're mounting the cdrom drive try and use the -noioctl switch (as opposed to -ioctl)

guys, please, this is a duplicate thread to the one in the games section, so please someone close this one 😀

hmm
I see this is a duplicate of the same thread in Dosbox general...

if that thread is to be closed,
I'll repeat here what I wrote there :

don't know about alone in the dark, but if it's working a bit like Tomb Raider does, using Dosbox in Vista, assuming you're mounting the cdrom drive try and use the -noioctl switch (as opposed to -ioctl)

If it is the floppy version of the game, when you run TATOU.COM there's an option to configure sound. Make sure the settings are on Sound Blaster or compatible, address 220, DMA 1 and IRQ 7.

but he wrote :

also its a cd game

Ooops.

Merged

man i feel so stupid i stayed up till 3am trying to fix this problem last night because i wanted to play the game soooooooo bad!

should have just waited for you guys to respond!

i remounted my cd drives as -noioctl just like you said and know everything works perfectly including sound!

thanks alot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kenakuma wrote:

i remounted my cd drives as -noioctl just like you said and know everything works perfectly including sound!

I had hoped so (as long as your game arguably uses cd tracks just like Tomb raider would) 😀

This second finding, following the TR fixing, may be useful to confirm that if I get this right under Windows Vista all ioctl calls are broken and therefore Dosbox itself must rely on noioctl, sdl routines to access cdrom directly like e.g. mscdexnt/sapucdex used to do.

well only one call is probably broken.

So tomb raider 1 needs -noioctl as well ?

Qbix wrote:

So tomb raider 1 needs -noioctl as well ?

Yes, definitely, in my own experience.

EDIT :
btw as far as the ioctl thing is concerned,
dege once pointed out this IOCTL_CDROM_PLAY_AUDIO_MSF issue to me :

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms804546.aspx

Hmm, I am having a similar error with "The 7th Guest". Although I hear the music coming from the CD just fine when playing the game, it won't record the cd audio with the Dosbox capture tool. Would setting the cdrom switch from -ioctrl to -noioctrl affect this? What does -noioctrl do?

Thanks in advance,

Rob

It's "noioctl", without the r.
It uses the SDL interface for cdrom stuff then, but it doesn't work for
a lot of games, so only use it when necessary.

Actually my point was/is
noioctl will probably be useful under Windows Vista

anyway, Metron4, you can always try either -ioctl or -noioctl and see.
With WinXP I never needed to use anything different than -ioctl with all games I've been playing.

Um yes thanks i read your posting, we are aware of Vista's habit
of deprecating some ioctl functionality, way before your posting.

But the SDL interface (ie. noioctl) does NOT allow any sector-based interaction
with the cdrom, so its only use is for cd audio.