First post, by NY00123
* POST EDIT FOR FEBRUARY 22 2015: It looks like this also has an effect on a couple of sounds from the Catacomb Adventure Series games (also sharing a lot of code with Keen 4-6). I've added a post regarding this.
Hi all,
I've had a suspect for awhile, that something is missing in the sound effect mentioned on the topic's title, while running CK5 in DOSBox. And no, even with all rates set to 49716Hz, there's no impact.
As of today, though, I've found an "evidence" of that.
Admittedly, I've "cheated" a bit: Rather than running on older hardware, I've simply attempted to reproduce the sound using the PCem emulator. And then the moment comes: What I've vaguely remembered is being heard!
I've attached two recordings of the sound effect:
- One from DOSBox v0.74, with rate=49716, oplrate=49716, oplmode=auto, oplemu=default and sbtype=sb16.
- The other one from PCem v0.6, with the sound card set to "SoundBlaster v2.0". I couldn't find a way to change the rate, but it almost surely isn't 49716Hz. The rate shouldn't be relevant in our specific case, though.
To reproduce, you can warp to level 4 of CK5 (using "-tedlevel 4" as arguments, for instance), and later finish by breaking a fuse or two.
Note that it's important to have the music playing (at least at some point since keen5e.exe is loaded), in order to avoid a few Keen-specific weird phenomenons regarding some of the sound effects.
To finish: Yes, I know this is PCem and not real hardware. However, I've reproduced that problematic tone on PCem, so it should illustrate what's currently missing.
Furthermore, only now I've realized, you can reproduce this with qemu v1.0 as well, although the whole emulation sounds less true to the original for me.
EDIT: Wow, I've actually forgotten to mention a few more specs: I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 here, for the x86-64 architecture. For PCem I've used Wine 1.4-rc2 right from winehq.org (a PPA for Ubuntu). Truly, the usage of Wine might have an affect on the sounds, but, considering what I've written before, it probably doesn't affect the attached recording in a significant manner.
Hope it has been helpful,
NY