Hello folks,
I got Falcon A.T. on Steam. I remember the previous Falcon (Amiga) having music and sounds.
Falcon A.T. has no sound... I thought I heard some system sounds but thats it; they vanished completely.
I only have two options in Falcon A.T.:
Sound on /off
Innovation on/off
Falcon on Amiga was superior in terms of this. How is this possible? Am I missing some DOSBox conf settings here?
Greetings,
Cabal
Hello.
You aren't doing anything wrong. Being such early game, sound support will be limited to PC Speaker and the rare Innovation SSI-2001 sound card (given that is mentioned in the options) that uses the SID chip. The latter is emulated in some DOSBox forks.
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Kind of Batman the movie
Nice graphics, but horrible sound.
Try the next version - Falcon 3.0, or Falcon Gold which includes it - if you'd like something which actually uses VGA (A.T. only uses EGA) and has audio. I seem to recall that Falcon A.T. would run on some really ancient machines, but Falcon 3.0 was actually something that required a relatively modern machine at the time, and I remember it being a challenge to make enough memory available for it.
If you want the optimum falcon experience then it has to be the amiga version and emulation. Had a quick look at WinUAE and in theory it should be possible to use a hotas, although I haven't tried it yet.
Falcon A.T should be hires where the others are lowres.
Retro-Gamer 😀 ...on different machines
dr.zeissler wrote on 2023-07-21, 13:10:Falcon A.T should be hires where the others are lowres.
Good point, I forgot about that. It's 640x400 with 16 colours, whereas Falcon 3.0 and the other related games in the "Electronic Battlefield Series" are VGA 320x200 with 256 colours.
