I thought you were running this well under Virtual PC? If not, is possible to run the Windows version (only available on the SE version).

Yes, it's working very well under Virtual PC on my good computer but I wanted to try it out on an old Pentium 75 machine that was recently given to me. The game itself runs fine but there is no sound. I was just wondering if there was something I'm not doing right. It is running MS-DOS 6.22, and the SB16 is an ISA non-pnp version.

Banquo wrote:

It is running MS-DOS 6.22, and the SB16 is an ISA non-pnp version.

Done any diagnostics on the SoundBlaster? Does it work properly with other games?

Banquo wrote:

Yes, it's working very well under Virtual PC on my good computer but I wanted to try it out on an old Pentium 75 machine that was recently given to me. The game itself runs fine but there is no sound. I was just wondering if there was something I'm not doing right. It is running MS-DOS 6.22, and the SB16 is an ISA non-pnp version.

FYI: Old sys-reqs for TNFS:

Operating System: MS-DOS 5.0+ or Windows 95/98
CPU Type & Speed: 75 MHz Pentium class processor or compatible
Hard Drive Space: 50MB free space
Memory: 8MB Ram (DOS) 12MB Ram (Win95/98)
CD-Rom Speed: 4x CD-ROM drive

Surfed the net looking for command-line switches for it, and there _is_ one related to audio:
"TNFS.EXE [SOUNDCARDID] (example AWE)"

so TNFS.EXE AWE would run it on a SB AWE 32.
It'll take more looking into. Maybe TNFS.EXE SB16?

More switches: tnfs.exe sbpro novideo
tnfs.exe sb16
tnfs.exe gus

(Novideo doesn't play the videos...)

The install process creates a NFS.BAT file. It should be set up for your soundcard. 😀

I installed NASCAR Racing 1 and it found the card right away. Monkey Island also detected it with no troulbe. As for NFS I tried several switches including SB16 but none of them seem to make any difference. No big deal though, I was just playing around with it.

Thanks for the suggestions 😀

after some fiddling, i got the sound for this great old game to work! my nfs/bat said nosound so i took that out and put AWE (dunno if that helped), then ran nfssb.bat with vmds, and...voila! lovely sound!

Um, well, Banquo was talking about getting it running on an old Pentium system. But this might have some bearing on whether or not he'd play the game using Virtual PC... I'm not sure why he'd do that, if it would work under Windows XP with VDMS. Still..

And yes, of course removing nosound and putting AWE helped.

Using 'sb16' instead would be a better idea since it has no MIDI.
In any case, closing thread: RESOLVED.