http://www.worldofmi.com/features/download/patches/

Thanks a lot, that made the game start. However, the sound doesn't work.

Did you install the TSRs? Do you have a SET BLASTER line?

AWE32 is only slightly more complicated to set up than the earlier SB lines

leileilol wrote:

Did you install the TSRs? Do you have a SET BLASTER line?

AWE32 is only slightly more complicated to set up than the earlier SB lines

Indeed I did, the system has no known issues with the sound card. The sound card works in the vast majority of games. The AWE32 has a NEC XR385 general MIDI daughterboard (DB60XG Rev. B) attached, although I cannot imagine why that should make a difference. Nevertheless, I have sound in nearly every game I've tried, I can only think of one game where the sound is not working, which is Jill of the Jungle.

I tried with the "game blaster" argument for the monkey.exe program as well as the "adlib" argument. Game blaster produces a nasty noise artifact instead of actual sound/music whereas the adlib option causes a crash akin to the one I got prior to patching the program. PC speaker works fine.

I also tried to install the Roland patch just to see if it would make a difference, but there was no noticeable difference.

Try disabling L1 and L2 cache in Bios.

Yes, it's a speed issue. Adlib sound won't work with Monkey Island 1 if the computer is too fast.

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Try disabling L1 and L2 cache in Bios.

I tried this and the result was that the with "game blaster" there is still mere artifacts instead of actual sound.
With "adlib" the game now starts instead of crashing, but there is no sound, not even static.

I could only get my old SB32 pnp, which is very similar to the AWE32, in pure DOS by installing Windows 3.xx drivers.

filipetolhuizen wrote:

I could only get my old SB32 pnp, which is very similar to the AWE32, in pure DOS by installing Windows 3.xx drivers.

I actually have Windows 3.11 installed and working, my AWE32 works perfectly fine in Windows 3.11 as well.

Does Monkey Island 1 work on your SB32 (I assume you're using a real DOS computer and not just dosbox or some other form of emulation)?

Paddan1000 wrote:

Yes, it's a speed issue. Adlib sound won't work with Monkey Island 1 if the computer is too fast.

I see, perhaps the system is too fast even with both caches disabled.

posix_memalign wrote:

I see, perhaps the system is too fast even with both caches disabled.

Disabling L1 Cache cripples any Pentium.

I tried SB 1.5, SB 2.0, SB Pro 2.0, AWE64, AWE 64 Gold, ESS AudioDrive and PAS 16 with Monkey Island, and they all work fine.

Tested on a Pentium 200 MMX with L1 cache disabled.

I don't recall running Monkey Island on that system, but after I installed everything in Win 3.11 everything else started to work properly. Before that, nothing was working at all outside Windows 95. Oh, and by that time I only had the 16 colour version of Monkey Island as well.

I know it's none of my business, but I just have to ask;

Why would anyone go through all that work to get Monkey Island to play in DOS when you can just use ScummVM?

Rekrul wrote:

I know it's none of my business, but I just have to ask;

Why would anyone go through all that work to get Monkey Island to play in DOS when you can just use ScummVM?

DOS-only computer?

Rekrul wrote:

I know it's none of my business, but I just have to ask;

Why would anyone go through all that work to get Monkey Island to play in DOS when you can just use ScummVM?

Because-
*Marvin Gaye voice here*
"When I get that feelin' I need Retro-DOS healin'! Retro-DOS...healinnnn'..." 😎

Rekrul wrote:

I know it's none of my business, but I just have to ask;

Why would anyone go through all that work to get Monkey Island to play in DOS when you can just use ScummVM?

Isn't it obvious? To increase the nostalgia factor.

While most of the old games I play are genuine works of art that can stand the test of time and still be fun even today had I not already been familiar with the game. However the nostalgia factor is quite profound and makes it just so much better.

Playing an old game in an emulator on a modern computer is not quite the same as playing it on an old computer.

Although not quite as profound it is somewhat akin to the difference of playing SNES on a real SNES machine on a TV and playing SNES emulated on e.g. ZSNES on some modern x86.
Even though SCUMMVM and ZSNES are very well written they can never mimic the entire nostalgic experience.

By that way I have still not managed to get Monkey Island 1 working with sound, which makes me quite sad.

Rekrul wrote:

I know it's none of my business, but I just have to ask;

Why would anyone go through all that work to get Monkey Island to play in DOS when you can just use ScummVM?

Because this is a vintage gaming forum and most of us here have the original machines that these games used to run on when they were new. 🙄

If the speed issues are resolved then check if you have correctly set up mt32 emulation via aweutil. AFAIK Monkey 1 non-CD versions do not reprogram the MT-32 so you can get very good emulation in theory. Load up the default mt-32 soundfont or a better replacement.

Also, make sure that you set P330 in the "set blaster=" line in autoexec.bat.

and launch the game this way:

monkey.exe v mo r

Hope this will work for you.