dune- getting it to work on XP, no sound.

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Jennifer - 01 Aug 2006 12:04 GMT

I just bought Dune (the white label one) for the pc and am attempting
to get it to work on XP. The game runs but I have no sound. I
downloaded a program called VDMS which I then ran the game with. Still

no sound. I don't know much about computers so I'm looking for someone

who either has this game and it works or knows about getting old DOS
games to work on XP, specifically the sound. Thanks in advance,
Jennifer.

Also, in the installation it says the port settingn is fine for the
sound blaster card but there is a problem with the DMA interrupt
number. I don't have a soundblaster card but I guess that's what the
emulator does. I am lost!

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Malke - 01 Aug 2006 13:17 GMT

> I just bought Dune (the white label one) for the pc and am attempting
> to get it to work on XP. The game runs but I have no sound. I
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> who either has this game and it works or knows about getting old DOS
> games to work on XP, specifically the sound.

> Also, in the installation it says the port settingn is fine for the
> sound blaster card but there is a problem with the DMA interrupt
> number. I don't have a soundblaster card but I guess that's what the
> emulator does. I am lost!

The problem with many old DOS games and programs is that they took control
of the hardware, which is not permitted in XP. You can try DOSBox and see
if your game will work in it.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

They also have forums on their site and I see there is one called "VDM
Sound" so that might be useful for you.

Another alternative is to install Virtual PC 2004 (now free) and then make a
DOS virtual machine. I've got virtual machines for DOS, Win3.1, Win95,
Win98, and OS/2 on my host XP box. My son is currently playing "Grim
Fandango" on the Win98 VM. I haven't played your particular game, but I've
played old DOS games in the VM with good results.

Malke

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Jennifer - 01 Aug 2006 13:33 GMT

Thanks, that's the best advice I have got. Really appreciate it, I will
give all of it a try. Thanks again, Jennifer.

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Jennifer - 01 Aug 2006 13:38 GMT

The DOSbox thing looks really complicated :S

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Malke - 01 Aug 2006 14:05 GMT

> The DOSbox thing looks really complicated :S

I've never tried it since I have old machines still running DOS (although
they haven't come out of storage for a long time) and the VM's. I think you
ought to try Virtual PC. Understand that you need to have the operating
systems you want to install. You actually have to install them - when the
virtual machine is running, it thinks it is a Win95 computer (for ex.) and
doesn't "know" it's virtual. If you don't have the floppies for DOS 6.2,
you can usually run DOS programs from within Windows 95 quite well. But
none of this is simple because what you are trying to do isn't simple. You
want to run a program designed for an operating system that is completely
unrelated to the one installed on your computer.

Spend some time on those DOSBox forums and see what you can learn. Good
luck.

Malke

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ronald.phillips@gmail.com - 01 Aug 2006 14:23 GMT

If a user thinks DosBox it too complicated then suggesting VPC/Vmware
or any other "DOS" emulator makes no sense whatsoever.

I suggest reading the readme and visiting the forums as suggested by
the previous poster. The only reason (THE ONLY) to go with VPC over
DosBox is if you have a slow machine (less than 2ghz), and are trying
to run a resource demanding game (1997+). Even then you could probably
play the game fine with just Windows XP with reduced sound quality.

> > The DOSbox thing looks really complicated :S
>
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> www.elephantboycomputers.com
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Jennifer - 01 Aug 2006 22:17 GMT

Thank you for all your help. I got it to work and I now have sound!
Thanks, I appreciate your great help!

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mel - 06 Aug 2006 22:10 GMT

How did you get this to work? I'm trying to do the same thing. Thanks!

> Thank you for all your help. I got it to work and I now have sound!
> Thanks, I appreciate your great help!

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