VDMsound is useless on Vista 64. If you have dialog boxes you have the floppy version which had no speech. You'll need to get the CD version to have speech.

thanks, so much. I was going insane trying to solve this issue. Not questioning your knowledge but, are you 100% sure that's the issue?

What do you think how many floppies they'd have needed?

The talkie version has no dialog boxes. Period. If you don't know that you have the floppy version, you must have a zipped copy, right?

That's always been annoying with those old sierra adventures for lacking the option to have both voice and subtitles at the same time 🙁

hm.. would it be possible to make dosbox working this way:

that you opens two dosboxes, run the same game in them (differently configured), and mouse actions are transmited to both of them. You keep the window without subtitles in the background and look on the window with subtitles. The window with subtitles is muted.

Would it be possible?

Someone should just make more progress in creating better sci support in freesci/scummvm whatever:)

robertmo wrote:

hm.. would it be possible to make dosbox working this way:

that you opens two dosboxes, run the same game in them (differently configured), and mouse actions are transmited to both of them. You keep the window without subtitles in the background and look on the window with subtitles. The window with subtitles is muted.

Would it be possible?

Wouldn't work with this game. Things would get out of sync. The floppy version had copyright protection that had to be dealt with in the middle of the game and the CD did not.

Yes, i do have the zip version, not the cd version; I do however, used to have the cd version a long time back, that's how I knew that voice exist.

agafur01 wrote:

Yes, i do have the zip version

there is no zip version

maybe personal "backup" zip version perhaps? xDD