Originally posted by HunterZ No, I was talking about trying to emulate properly the way games like Wiz6&7 and Dungeon Master throttle the SoundBlaster (or even the Adlib in the case of Wiz7) to play digitized sounds one sample at a time instead of using its DMA buffer like they're supposed to.
I believe the two are related. IIRC this also how the parallel-port adapters worked as well. This update provided the parallel support along with speedset compatibility, but it's functionality is hampered by the way these things processed audio.
...another casualty of hiding addons on the forum I guess
More like a nice idea to try. Don't think you can just plug this in and these titles will run just like they used to... They need real tinkering and IIRC performance in general is poor. Not what I would call an "official" release. This is why I tend to recommend emulation as it makes speed and compatibility issues disappear. You can try DosBox with Wizardry 6&7, but I'm not sure if it can properly reproduce the sampled speaker-audio (RealSound titles work well on it...). It seemed to run Dungeon Master fairly well... Can't remember if the PC version actually had stereo audio or not...I liked my Amiga version because I could use stereo separation to help narrow down the direction of far-away sounds...
Last I tried, DosBox was too choppy on my PII-450 to run even fairly tame games like Full Throttle without large amounts of choppiness in the sound.
Err...I'de be surprised to see "Full Throttle" running at all on DosBox. It requires a 486 processor minimum and DosBox is only up to unprotected 386 emulation. So FT is actually well beyond the specs of what it will run.
Honestly, if you're running a P2-450 you either need a dual-boot setup (with a DOS or Win9x OS) or a faster processor. A P2-450 may be adequate for running XP, but running emulation on top of that is going to make things crawl.
...but it must be hacked because Queequeg was in the tower instead of the French, dog-obsessed guy.
I think you may be right, as I had the Amiga version and I specifically remember the "Dog" guy.
I got a rip of Wizardry Gold and I'm really not impressed with what they did with it
Mostly they just "Windows95-ed" it. There were some changes in art, but it was mostly the same game.