I think Martian Memorandum is from Access Software and may be using RealSound(tm) to produce digitised samples using Internal Speaker. This is incompatible with DOSBox. Try checking if you can configure sound options to use SoundBlaster. If not, you may need to run the game without sound (yikes!).

*** Moving to DOSBox Games/Apps. section, by the way ***

DOSBox has partial support for digitized sound played through the PC speaker:
- Axe of Rage intro music works
- Wizardry 7 sounds work, albeit with popping
- Silpheed speech at the beginning of the game doesn't work

There are probably better examples that I can't think of at the moment.

I think it's RealSound propietary technique what is causing problems under DOSBox.

thought that realsound worked under dosbox.
maybe it's broken

Alright, so how do I change the sound settings? Sorry if I'm being dense...

Which version of DosBox are you using?

Also, I wonder if Qbix is right about it being broken, since I'm able to see a short animation with sound before it freezes up completely. I hope Qbix is wrong, though!

Hi Rachel,

Strangely, it works fine on my box using the latest CVS. Please try to remove the file MM.CFG in your Martian Memorandum directory, and expirement with the various soundcard options that show up on the next startup to see if it makes a difference?!

Regards,

Ronald

DOSBox-0.63

PS-
I can't believe how quickly you guys respond! It's great!!

Alright! I got it to work!! Turns out the problem wasn't the sound setting, it was the music setting, strangely enough... I changed it from adlib to roland and now the small sound clip (which, by the way, doesn't even have any music in it) plays through just fine. And the music sounds better, too! Thanks for all your help!