a sound blaster link setup perhaps if you don't have it?

zapbuzz wrote on 2021-12-11, 18:42:

a sound blaster link setup perhaps if you don't have it?

First time i hear about that, what's that ?

Do you mean the drivers ?

its a physical link from supported motherboards to soundcards. Theres a topic about it with photos of motherboards with it so you can see if yours has it.
Creative brought it out everyone else picked it up in the day. Another option is external MIDI to do the sounds instead. Theres Victor Bart on youtube demstrating that.

zapbuzz wrote on 2021-12-11, 18:52:

its a physical link from supported motherboards to soundcards. Theres a topic about it with photos of motherboards with it so you can see if yours has it.
Creative brought it out everyone else picked it up in the day.

It's already compatible, the cd audio works (listen to the ocean sound at the beginning), the cable goes straight from the cd drive to the soundcard, this looks more like a transition bug triggered by skipping a track or a corrupted track.

Another option is daemon tools to emulate the cd with digital audio support (music goes digital path than analogue from disc file backup) from file instead but alcohol 120% does acurate 1:1 backup of the disc best to enable protection support on daemon tools because daemon tools runs without license opposed to alcohol 120% trial period expiry. Of course this is in case you cannot run a backup cd straight from copying the original which on newer machines can use cyclic redundancy to recover from surface scratches. (DVD Burners best for subchannel reading)
Slowest burn possible so old cdrom drives pick up easier.

zapbuzz wrote on 2021-12-11, 19:02:

Another option is daemon tools to emulate the cd with digital audio support (music goes digital path than analogue from disc file backup) from file instead but alcohol 120% does acurate 1:1 backup of the disc best to enable protection support on daemon tools because daemon tools runs without license opposed to alcohol 120% trial period expiry. Of course this is in case you cannot run a backup cd straight from copying the original which on newer machines can use cyclic redundancy to recover from surface scratches. (DVD Burners best for subchannel reading)
Slowest burn possible so old cdrom drives pick up easier.

I'm using real hardware in dos, i can't use daemontools, i would like to know why this weird bug.

If you are using a CD-R and not the original CD-ROM, try burning it at a very reduced speed. Like 1X-4X.

Going back up to the lookout, you should hear the adlib sounds / the fire cracking. Check the settings on your sound card on adlib / FM / resource conflicts on ports / irq and start the game with monkey a (or s).

Make sure the card is working perfectly with other games. Also, 200 MMX may be too fast for the game, try disabling first the L1 cache and start again.

mihai wrote on 2021-12-11, 22:40:

Going back up to the lookout, you should hear the adlib sounds / the fire cracking. Check the settings on your sound card on adlib / FM / resource conflicts on ports / irq and start the game with monkey a (or s).

Make sure the card is working perfectly with other games. Also, 200 MMX may be too fast for the game, try disabling first the L1 cache and start again.

https://www.philscomputerlab.com/136-in-1-pentium-mmx.html

Yep it was the speed, the 136in1 solved my problems.