Try starting the game with the sblast parameter, to enable soundblaster sound.

eg at the command prompt:

PRINCE SBLAST

The game also supports other sound devices like covox, tandy etc so if you were originally playing on a machine with one of those devices they will sound different.

With DOSBox it plays Sound Blaster by default. So maybe when you played it back in the day you only had PC speaker?

You can force the PC speaker sound with this Game. Version 1.3 of Prince of Persia comes with a setup menu so you can configure the sound card.

In general the Sound Blaster sound is pretty good. I believe version 1.3 does support Sound Blaster and Roland MT-32. But not 100% sure!

There is another way to force pc speaker sound. The game has 2 files for that (ibm_snd1.dat and ibm_snd2.dat) , and 2 files for adlib/sb sound (midisnd1.dat and midisnd2.dat). If you have a sound card, it will play those midisnd files by default. So what you can do to have pc speaker sound, is to delete the midisnd 1 and 2 and rename the ibm_snd1.dat and ibm_snd2.dat to midisnd1.dat and midisnd2.dat.

Prince of Persia wasn't Mechner's first game.. but in any case, if you have even the slightest interest in gaming history, read his journals from the time he was developing the game, posted here: http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/

I recall it was fun watching his younger brother wired up with motion detectors, sommersaulting and fencing and the rest 😀

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Thanks all for your help.
It works now after installing v 1.3 with the set-up option.
Thanks for that suggestion Mau1wurf1977 mate!
Best wishes to all.
Happy Gaming.
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Jolaes76 wrote:

I recall it was fun watching his younger brother wired up with motion detectors, sommersaulting and fencing and the rest 😀

No motion detectors. Just VHS video. This was old tech, and he was rotoscoping - and even back then that was high tech.

I see. My memory failed me, it must have been the funny clothing he wore...