Getting old dos games to work..

[RbSX]

Hey guys,

I found my old CD for Star Trek Judgement Rites, I used to play this game when I was a little kid and had 24 floppy disks to use.

The problem is two fold:

1) How do I get the sound to work? Back then you had to use auto-detect, or manually select your audio card DMA and what not.

2) How do you open the executable file? Mine opens, then just automatically closes.

 

[Ika]

DOSbox.

Not sure about problem 1. I don't think I ever got Raptor: Call of the Shadows sound to work properly.

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: Aflac
DOSbox.

Not sure about problem 1. I don't think I ever got Raptor: Call of the Shadows sound to work properly.

Hmm well this is interesting, it seems that the game won't launch because it can't locate the music / sound driver.

 

[EvilComputer92]

Raptor works perfectly (with full sound) in the 0.7x versions of Dosbox.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: EvilComputer92
Raptor works perfectly (with full sound) in the 0.7x versions of Dosbox.

Does Full Sound mean General MIDI? On my old Windows 95 box (complete with Sound Blaster Live! using a slot that predates PCI), Raptor sounds were beautiful. I tried to play it on my nice new Vista x64 box that I have now and the only sound that works is MIDI (a pretty bad imitation once you've heard the original Sound Blaster sounds). I guess it's not really an *issue*, per se, but it bothers me. I just turn the sound off and play music. Otherwise it runs fine.

 

[CP5670]

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: EvilComputer92
Raptor works perfectly (with full sound) in the 0.7x versions of Dosbox.

Does Full Sound mean General MIDI? On my old Windows 95 box (complete with Sound Blaster Live! using a slot that predates PCI), Raptor sounds were beautiful. I tried to play it on my nice new Vista x64 box that I have now and the only sound that works is MIDI (a pretty bad imitation once you've heard the original Sound Blaster sounds). I guess it's not really an *issue*, per se, but it bothers me. I just turn the sound off and play music. Otherwise it runs fine.

I've played it in Dosbox too and you get all the original SB16 sounds and the OPL music, exactly like it would sound on an actual SB16 card or the Live's SB16 emulator. The general MIDI setting uses the Windows MIDI device and DOS games usually sound messed up with that, but you don't need to use that in Dosbox.

The SB16 sound emulation is probably the biggest attraction of Dosbox. Even if you can get a DOS game running natively in Windows, you will almost never get proper sound (if any at all) on a modern system.

 

[AdamK47]

There hasn't been a game that I couldn't get working with DOSBox.