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Win3.1 - SoundBlaster 16 digitized speech

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First post, by Vi3D

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I set up Win 3.1 to check out the Windows version of F-14 Tomcat: Fleet Defender Gold from GOG. It all works, except for the digitized speech, for which I've tried all kinds of different configurations on the game's sound config and I get no speech synthesis at all. Interestingly if I play the DOS version on DOSBox or DOSBox-X it works from the getgo. Anyone have any idea how to solve this?

Reply 1 of 2, by wbahnassi

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You're running Win3.1 in DosBox-X? Did you install the SB16 Windows drivers? Win3.1 should make a chime when opening up.
I'm not familiar with that particular game, but if its "Windows" version is just a short-cut to the DOS executable, then your issue might be DOS memory config under Win3.1.. of course the game won't be any different than the DOS version in that case.

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Intel 386 DX-33, TSeng ET3000, SB 1.5, 1x CD
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Reply 2 of 2, by Vi3D

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I'm running DOS and Windows 3.1 in 86box, and I did install the SB16 drivers. The game's Win3.1 version is indeed mainly a shortcut to the DOS version (it also does include some tutorial videos and other video based extras for use in Windows), which is why I'm confused I can't get digitized speech to work on it.

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