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First post, by Guest

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Hello folks,

quick facts:
- VDMSound 2.10 beta installed and working in several games, adlib as well as sb emu work.
- Target game does not have setup, it depends on the blaster env var.
- Var is set correctly by VDM itself, game notices and switches to soundblaster support.
- No sound. Not even a beep. Game runs, does not crash, but nothing is heard.

Machine is a rather new AMD Duron 1600 with onboard sound, VIA chipset, Win2k Professional, current SP. All drivers installed and fully operational, and these lines should be completely irrelevant as VDMS works anyway, only this game doesn't.

Game is running with win2k forcedos loader.

In case of interest, the game is classified abandonware and can be downloaded from the files section of the Yahoo Oxyd Group:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/oxyd/

My efforts so far:
- IRQ and DMA changes
- Randomly turning compatibility features on and off
- Tried SoundFX 2000 (I know, the evil enemy), which did work one or two times but not reliable

Perhaps anyone knows some secret settings combination for this game or any things to try?

Reply 1 of 4, by robertmo

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Oxyd works in DOSBox

Reply 2 of 4, by S. Dunbar

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Yes, Oxyd works in Dosbox, perfectly...well almost, is there a way to get the sound working that anyone knows of?

Reply 3 of 4, by mirekluza

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Oxyd (downloaded from Underdogs together with a patch) works correctly with sound in DOSBOX using SoundBlaster (soundcard is choosen in menu by F5 - then it may or may not be necessary to restart the game).
I used the current CVS, so I do not know whether it works with 0.61 or not.

Mirek

Reply 4 of 4, by S. Dunbar

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I recently found out that all of the Oxyd games will work with sound if you set both the dosbox.conf file and the intenal Oxyd soundblaster settings to DMA channel 3. Setting the config to DMA 3 also clears up the mouse problems in Space Quest 4.

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