First, I think you don't need Mo'slo from withing DOSBox. Just tweak your cycles.

We need more information, specially how did you mount your drives. Did you run setup to choose sound settings? etcetera.

Thanks for your help, el -- problem solved! Here's what i found out -- hopefully, this'll help some other vogons readers/posters.

Your comment on mounting started me thinking about whether the folder I mounted as my DOSbox c drive had all the files it was supposed to have. This led to some extensive online searching -- I eventually found a report about a similar problem regarding an old quest for glory game -- namely that the game worked fine except that both speech and text captions were missing. Apparently, the problem occurs when the game is searching for a speech file, but can't find it.

That got me looking into my files to see if a speech file was in fact missing. As it turns out, a file (filename: VOICES) had been somehow corrupted or interrupted when I copied it from the CD to the folder I was mounting. I replaced the file and -- presto! -- the game now works beautifully with both speech and captions.

Glad to hear you solved your problems and thanks for posting back. It may be useful to other people. 😎

Where can i get those 250 ghz processors though? oh well merry christmas...