First post, by Zalth
Hi I'm got this ancient, obscure game from the dawn of CD-rom mostly running in Dosbox .74 but none of the FMVs have sound. Despite doing a full install the game seems to run most of the FMVs straight from the CD as .mm and FLC animation files using Photomotion and flicplay. I also see lots of .voc files that I think are supposed to run in synch with the .mm video, but I never hear sound with them. Oddly the digital music plays during the game and I do hear SB sound effects and digital sound files not associated with FMV.
I'm using a standard .74 config file and I'm setting sound to soundblaster pro 2.0 in the install prog. I've gone through all the SB types and none are giving me FMV sound.
The game is also weird in that it asks to inspect and modify your config.sys and autoexec.bat files. I've just put these in my mounted C: folder and let it modify them.
Here's the config.sys file it creates:
device=c:\dos\himem.sys rem At least 768 K on EMS memory required. rem If your machine has more tham 2MB of RAM increase rem thi […]
device=c:\dos\himem.sys
rem At least 768 K on EMS memory required.
rem If your machine has more tham 2MB of RAM increase
rem this, but remember to leave some over for smartdrv!
DEVICE=C:\exec\emm386.exe RAM 768
rem
rem The next line does NOT work on all machines!
rem It allows DOS to use more upper memory. Machines
rem with 'different' ROM arrangements are unlikely
rem to work with this, indeed areas of upper memory
rem may have to specificly excluded with a /x=
rem
rem DEVICE=c:\dos\emm386.exe RAM 768 /i=e000-efff
dos=high,umb
rem Legacy likes to open quite a few files...
files=30
buffers=30
rem if your mouse driver is a '.SYS' file you must load it here, e.g.
devicehigh = c:\sysfiles\gmouse.sys
rem on a 2MB system a 256K disk cache the biggest available for legacy
rem obviously on a bigger system use a bigger cache.
devicehigh = c:\dos\smartdrv.sys 256
REM DEVICE=C:\EURORACE\SYSTEM\SBPDD.SYS 1 1 7 220
REM DEVICE=C:\EURORACE\SYSTEM\SNDBK12.SYS 1 7 220
REM DEVICE=C:\EURORACE\SYSTEM\SBPDD.SYS 1 1 7 220
REM DEVICE=C:\BACKROAD\SYSTEM\SBPDD.SYS 1 1 7 220
DEVICE=C:\BACKROAD\SYSTEM\SBPDD.SYS 1 1 5 220
And here's the modified autoexec.bat:
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4
Any ideas? This is frustrating because it's a pretty interesting game.