Re: Help needed on Goblins 2 - DOS game

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:38:43 -0400, "Mary" <nothere@xxxxxxx> wrote:

><erimess> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:49:31 -0400, "Mary" <nothere@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Reading through the
>> >> documentation I find "VDMSound will only run on Windows NT 4 SP3,
>> >> Windows 2000 or Windows XP. It will not work with Windows 95, 98
>or
>> >> Millennium." so I guess you're out of luck there. It looks as if
>> >> DosBox is the best way to get it working for you. If you can get
>that
>> >> working.
>> >
>> >Yes, thats what it looks like. I have Win 2000 installed on my D
>> >partition, but I thought I would try things in win 98SE, that it
>might
>> >be easier, but now I think nothing is easy about this. Even if I used
>> >Win2000, I wouldn't know how to do that anyway and if it would be any
>> >easier than Win 98SE.
>>
>> Well, yeah, except you could try the VDMSound with W2K. You can also
>> add to that a thing called VDMLaunchpad.
>
>I won't bother with that. I have enough problems trying to figure out
>Win 98SE Dosbox stuff.

Just as a note, VDMSound *can* get very complicated with a lot of
configuration stuff, etc. I don't know how to do any of it cause I've
only used it with one game and it worked "as is."

However, if you don't need to do any type of configuration, there is
nothing to "figure out."

All you need to do is install VDMSound. Then RIGHT-click on the .exe
file (in this case "go"), and you will see a choice near the top that
says "run with VDMSound." You click on that.

If it works, you've tried something relatively simple. If it doesn't,
then it might require the difficult configuring, but you can just give
up at that point and uninstall the thing and not much time and effort
lost.

If you give up on everything else, you can always give this a quick
try. The whole point of VDMsound is that it emulates an SB16
regardless of what you have. Since you are having sound difficulties,
this might be worth giving a shot.

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