i just found out about VMSound recently and wow it rocks! i hope for days of dos emulation for so long but never notice it is already there, how stupid. well, i have information to share and ofcource, i have question too 😁 .

i was digging through the internet to find some help regarding playing one of my old games, chinese RPG "PAL", DOS version, and found out about VMSound. happily i installed it to my Win2k (my specs is in the system specs tread) and woah! i hear music! but no sound 😢 . and guess what, i found this info on one chinese abandonware site that solve my problem! well, at lease part of it. the solution it's to enable the BIOS setting for "Memory Hole at 15~16M"! and i got my sound 😲 . the discription in my BIOS says that some ISA card will require this to be enabled but i'm not sure how is it related to VMSound, or perhaps it's just using Win2k's sound emulation (did Win2k emulate ISA sound card?). i've search the forum and didn't find anyone mentioned it and some games mentioned here have digital sound problem (worth a try 😀 .) so i think it's good to share 😎 .

ok my problem.

1) i've mentioned solving part of my problem (above), although i have sound, but seems like when multiple sound need to be process, it mute. e.g. fighting enemies/monsters alone, *wosh* and *puff* sounds good. but when fighting with team and enemies/monsters use attack all action (where all of the team should scream or whatever), the sound is gone. is there a solution to this? at first i tot it might be speed problem so i tried speedset xx a few times but it's not helping.

2) about using speedset, for senario above, i'll have to use speedset xx -> cannot -> restart cmd -> use speedset yy -> cannot -> restart cmd... ... is there anyway to reset speedset without restart cmd? and can anyone recommend speed to use for speedset for PIII 550/733?

3) about launchpad, it doesn't work while cmd -> dosdrv -> game works fine. it just stuck at "Loading VDDload.dll" (forgot the dll name 😅 . yes i have the launchpad shortcut with default setting. didn't change setting when running dosdrv either.

4) it sometimes happends that after i exit cmd with dosdrv and speedset, my mouse can no longer click. moving pointer is fine, scrolling is fine just cannot click. i hear error beeb sound but can't see any message. oh i'm using USB microsoft mouse with intellipoint.

last word, HELP! 😵