First post, by hwh
Colonization was one of those programs which used the cd audio cable during the game and chose various tracks based on what was happening in the game.
The audio data on the colonization cd is located on tracks after track 1, the data. As you probably guessed, I can't get the thing to play.
However, a game which uses a similar technique, Age of Empires 2, will in fact play its music.
I am quite frustrated and bewildered. I can't even get a cd player to play it. I went to the lengths of installing Win 3.1 on Dosbox and installing Colonization there (the point was to slow the animations down), and then mounting the CD-ROM in there. The drive does work in Win 3.1 - I can even get the game to play the data track as music (it's not very easy listening) but the other tracks just don't play.
Now as for the drive itself, it's SATA and has no audio cable, which it supposedly does not need. It's just supposed to work the way it is. Ideas?