Ah yes, one of the titles that made me get back into physical DOS machines because it just would. not. work. anywhere else. Fwiw dosbox-staging (0.80.1) doesn't run it properly either. Maybe give QEMU a try... or start looking for hardware.

Seems to work fine in DOSBox with default settings except: machine=vgaonly, core=normal, cycles=10000. The vgaonly machine type is needed for water to look as it should, and the core and cycles are needed for the sound to work. Of course you should also run the game's setup and enable SB sound with port 220, IRQ 7, DMA 1.

ripsaw8080 wrote on 2023-09-11, 20:44:

Seems to work fine in DOSBox with default settings except: machine=vgaonly, core=normal, cycles=10000. The vgaonly machine type is needed for water to look as it should, and the core and cycles are needed for the sound to work. Of course you should also run the game's setup and enable SB sound with port 220, IRQ 7, DMA 1.

It don't work for me. It is very slow and the sound stutters. Maybe there is another setting in my DosBox-X installation that I have no idea about?
Is there an equivalent of "vgaonly" at 86box? Some graphics card setting or something?

elszgensa wrote on 2023-09-11, 20:39:

or start looking for hardware.

I'm afraid that's not a realistic option. Less for me than for my wife, ha ha. ^^

The guidance I offered is for official DOSBox (0.74-3 or SVN) but may not work for forks. The cycles=10000 setting prevents stuttering on my system; however, you may need a lesser or greater value on your system.

There's a readme file in there with a lot of information.

eddman wrote on 2023-09-12, 17:55:

There's a readme file in there with a lot of information.

But he needs to interpret that. 😉