I just tried it and there's no adlib/soundblaster sound in dosbox 0.63 but it's working fine in 0.61.

-Mok

v0.61 did it! I've got sound and music now. Awesome stuff.

did you try experementing with the sblaster type in the dosbox configuration file ?

Just tried to play with the settings and you are right, it works if soundblaster is set to sb1 or sb2 (any sbpro or sb16 and the sound is gone). I'm pretty sure it worked on real sb16 years ago though.

-Mok

I did not try it (no time now), but my guess is that there are once again troubles with mixer (no problem with sb1, sb2, because they did not have it).
Despite what you said, I think that music is probably still there but really quiet... (at least this usually happens when there are mixer problems).

Mirek

It'd have to be set on, say. . . 1% or something then, mire, because I cranked my Windows Mixer to the maximum on both WAVE Output and Overall, and guess what? Only the digital sound came through. No MIDI(AdLib/SB) music or sound effects. But as I said, the game works perfectly with music and everything in DOSBox v0.61, so I'd already found one solution. And Mok is correct. Might & Magic III should be fully compatable with even a Sound Blaster Live! v5.1 sound card(with Sound Blaster 16 emulation for DOS). It was back when I was running it in the DOS Prompt of Windows 98: Second Edition.
As I type this, I've also done as Qbix suggested and changed the Sound Blaster emulation type in the dosbox.conf file. Repeatedly. Much as I hate to admit it, changing it from SB16 mode to SB1 or SB2 mode worked perfectly. However. . .it does not give music if you use SBPro1, Pro2, or SB16 mode. Period. I don't care what anyone says. It does not play music in those modes. Therefore, that is still an issue, considering on a real MS-DOS machine with any of those cards, it would play music. Apparently, SB1 or SB2 is the default(and unchangeable) in DOSBox v0.61.

So, my game compatibility opinion stands. 90% compatable in v0.63.

Relax.

The mixer mirek is talking about is the mixer internally in dosbox that comes with the higher soundblaster types.
Look at the sblaster section in the configfile

# mixer -- Allow the soundblaster mixer to modify the dosbox mixer.

If you disable that then we know if it's a mixer problem or that something else goes wrong in the soundcard detection.

Yes, the sound is working in sb16 mode when this option is disabled. When the game starts I see the following error in dosbox log window: "SBLASTER:MIXER:Write F to unhandled index 0". But it might be not related at all.

-Mok

well that doesn't seem to have to do a thing with it.
but I did find something odd.

fixed it
Should work now. Mirek could you test/remember other games effected ?

Hm. . . Yeah. . .setting the Mixer variable to "false" did the trick. . . How bizarre. [off-topic]Still no MIDI music in Timeslaughter, though.[/off-topic] :x

Qbix wrote:

fixed it
Should work now. Mirek could you test/remember other games effected ?

I think I saw it in another mm game (either in mm4 or mm5 - before merging them to "world of xeen"!). Sound setup asks whether it should regulate volume automatically - "yes" answer lead to the similar effect.
I will try to check it over weekend.

Mirek

In World of Xeen, if you let it regulate the sound volumes, the music and MIDI sound effects would die down to about half-volume after one of the gatekeepers in the Darkside towns, or the Cloudside Red Dwarf Mines spoke. However, if one of the alone-games has the same DOSBox-related glitch that Might & Magic III does, it would be Might & Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen. It was the earlier release, afterall. If memory serves me right, the configuration program for Clouds is actually more like the one for M&M3 than the Darkside one. . .

Yes, the problem was in MM4 and it is now fixed as well.

Mirek

just to clear this up

there is sound in sb16/pro mode, it's really just to quiet, i CAN hear it with my DSP 500 headset, but very quiet indeed

solution works for me too 😀

Yep. When I play mm3 using a sound blaster pro or 16, the FM volume gets set to 1:1 after running it. Thanks for the sb2.0 tip. That did the trick nicely.