Hmm just finished this game 2 weeks ago on my p120, didn't encounter one problem 😀

A P120 is slightly older than my Athlon XP 1800+. What are your hardware specs? I am not surprised at all that it has run fine for you. What sound card do you have?

Hmm lessee p120 with 16 mb, s3 trio64 with 2 mb, 4 speed cdrom, 2 gb harddisk, and isa cmi8330 sb 16 compatible soundcard thing

Harekiet wrote:

Hmm lessee p120 with 16 mb, s3 trio64 with 2 mb, 4 speed cdrom, 2 gb harddisk, and isa cmi8330 sb 16 compatible soundcard thing

*drool drool*

I miss my old trusty SB16 isa.

Mine's better! (Mwah!)

486/66DX-2, onboard Cirrus Logic video, AWE32, 4xCD-ROM, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy, 850MB hard disk. 😁

Well, At last I have been able to run it from dos. I don't know why but I had to modify the .BAT file that serves as loader to suit my needs. Anyway with the crappy SB emulator my integrated CMI8738 audio chip has I cannot get digitised samples, even if setsound says SB is detected. This suxx, but at least the game works properly under pure DOS, allowing me to play. I miss the voices, though. They are quite good, imho.
I have been testing it under DosBox too (CVS). CHKVESA reports just two vesa modes 0x100 (640x400x8) and 0x101 (640x480x8). Surprisingly enough, the game loads and sound it's properly synchronized. The music and digitised samples sound superb. but alas, I got a black screen for video... Another nasty surprise of VESA support. Tried several VESA implementations to no avail: UNIVESA, VBEPlus and NOLFB. None of them worked. Worse still, they tended to break up DosBox internal VESA support, which didn't surprise me at all. Better leave DosBox alone.
I think I'll have to resort to play this under plain DOS, without samples... Yeech!

Just found my CD. Will check and get back with you.

BTW. I have a Gateway 486-66 used for testing. I would use the 386 or the 386SX machines, but they have no easy way of using up CD-ROM devices.

WOW!

I've been able to get it running under DosBox (latest CVS). It isn't totally smooth but playable. No more weird hangs. The problem with most protected games is that they require more cycles and maybe frameskip=1 (look at my post on DosBox Forum)

Hrrm. Maybe it's linked to specific actions or something. I just ran it fine with VDMSound with no special settings and no (apparent) problems.

Nich Sehr Gut, so far, i've been playing it using VDMSound under WinXP, but i reached a point where my saved games could not be loaded anymore with success. So far, i haven't got these problems with DosBox (using same savegames).

Originally posted by eL_PuSHeR ...but i reached a point where my saved games could not be loaded anymore with success. So far, i haven't got these problems with DosBox (using same savegames).

So it wouldn't load up your old save games? Zip them up and post them here. BTW, what does it do when you try to restore?

It just kicks me back to desktop. Under DosBox they load fine, btw. I am now resuming my adventure. I think I am not far from finishing it... Thanks.