no music in syndicate wars with dosbox 0.74 \ VOGONS

no music in syndicate wars with dosbox 0.74

Topic actions

First post, by genocyber

Posted on 2012-12-19, 20:42

genocyber Offline

Rank Newbie

Rank: Newbie
Posts: 4
Joined: 2012-12-19, 20:32

hello i cant seem to get the music to play during gameplay and was wondering if anyone could help.

ive copied all the conents from the syndicate wars cd to d:\swarscd and ive installed the game from said folder using dosbox to d:\swars. basically im trying to run the game from the "swarscd" folder as if its the cd so theres no lag. i hope that makes sense.

this is the like autoexec command-line thingy i use to start the game in the conf file:

@ECHO OFF
mount c d:\
mount d d:\swarscd -t cdrom -usecd 0
c:\
cd swars
main.exe
exit

the game runs fine, no lag, sound effects like guns are there but no music. thanks for reading this and thanks for any help.

Reply 1 of 7, by Dominus

Posted on 2012-12-19, 20:55

Dominus Offline

Rank DOSBox Moderator

Rank: DOSBox Moderator
Posts: 9206
Joined: 2002-10-03, 09:54
Location: Ludwigsburg

Maybe the music is cd audio tracks?
To test mount the cd to d instead of the folder. When that does the trick, make a bin/cue image of the CD and use imgmount instead of mount to mount the image.

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 2 of 7, by bloodbat

Posted on 2012-12-19, 21:00

bloodbat Offline

Rank Oldbie

Rank: Oldbie
Posts: 796
Joined: 2009-12-06, 07:11

The soundtrack is, indeed, redbook audio.

Reply 3 of 7, by genocyber

Posted on 2012-12-19, 21:11

genocyber Offline

Rank Newbie

Rank: Newbie
Posts: 4
Joined: 2012-12-19, 20:32

thanks for the replies. yes the audio runs fine when i change the folder to the cd-drive. sorry to sound stupid but how do i make a bin/cue image?

Reply 4 of 7, by Dominus

Posted on 2012-12-19, 21:15

Dominus Offline

Rank DOSBox Moderator

Rank: DOSBox Moderator
Posts: 9206
Joined: 2002-10-03, 09:54
Location: Ludwigsburg

I think the best program to do that is currently Alcohol 120%. Last time I tried it the trial version got the job done

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 5 of 7, by genocyber

Posted on 2012-12-19, 23:15

genocyber Offline

Rank Newbie

Rank: Newbie
Posts: 4
Joined: 2012-12-19, 20:32

will give it a try thanks again!

Reply 6 of 7, by genocyber

Posted on 2012-12-20, 09:30

genocyber Offline

Rank Newbie

Rank: Newbie
Posts: 4
Joined: 2012-12-19, 20:32

hi again still no music using thi bin/cue image. heres the script i used:

mount c d:\
imgmount d d:\swarsimg\SWARS.cue -t iso -fs iso
c:\
cd swars
main.exe
exit

Reply 7 of 7, by Dominus

Posted on 2012-12-20, 10:02

Dominus Offline

Rank DOSBox Moderator

Rank: DOSBox Moderator
Posts: 9206
Joined: 2002-10-03, 09:54
Location: Ludwigsburg

Hmm, does the cue file (it's only a text file) point to the bin (SWARS.BIN best without a path) and mention audio tracks?

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Go to top of page Go to top of page

Back to DOSBox Games/Apps