First post, by VirtuaIceMan
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- Oldbie
I just found out about the Tandy sound/graphics options in the Sega US Gold ports of the late 1980s. Now, when I run AfterBurner II and choose Tandy (with Tandy selected in DOSBox) then it works fine, with full 3 channel music or sound effect samples (if you turn them on in-game). However I'm struggling with Outrun...
I have an original Kixx (US Gold budget range) 3.5" floppy disc of Outrun, which includes the .snd files, which the Tandy version plays (the DAC sound effects I believe), however if I choose to run DOSBox (with Tandy selected) then when I start Outrun (using the only option that works for me: option 3, EGA) then I hear the Tandy sound effects/music, and can even "play" the game, but the graphics don't appear at all (i.e. I'm left looking at the options 1-4 screen).
I then downloaded an abandonware version, to see if my budget re-release was missing any files (as it mentions the second 5.25" disc having Tandy files in some places). It turns out the abandonware version has several .exe files for the game, whereas mine only has outrun.exe. However they too made no difference. The abandonware version I found was also missing the .snd audio files.
Even combining the abandonware version with my original I still can't get to SEE anything of the Tandy version visually, just hear the sound effects!
So, yeah, has anyone got any version of Outrun to work in DOSBox with Tandy sounds and visuals, and if so, what's your conf file look like (if it relies on something special?). Or, what does your copy of Outrun consist of, files-in-its-folder-wise?
Cheers all!
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