It's a miracle !
If you have a copy of Day of the Tentacle (what a wonderful game) and Windows XP (or NT or 2000) as OS, rejoice ! You will be able to play it again with full sound and all !
All you have to do is download this wonderful DOS-sound emulator named
VMDSound.
The important thing is to setup the game with these settings for the sound :
SoundBlaster
Port : 220
IRQ : 7
Then you need to create a shortcut with this command line :
"c:\where_ever_it_is\VDMSrun.bat" c:\where_ever_it_is\dott.exe
and for "working" directory the directory of the game (not the one of VMDS).
Just run the shortcut and...yay ! Back in 1994
This nice emulator seems to really help when it comes to make old games work. Most of the times its the sound management that messes up everything. With that it's completly solved.
All you need to do is always configure sound as : SoundBlaster, port 220, irq 7 and then run VMDSrun.bat with the path of the game exe as parameter (see the shortcut I described). Don't forget the "working" directory or the game won't find its other files.
So far I made Day of the Tentacle, Cannon Fodder 1, Colonization and Monkey Island 1 work perfectly on Xp (with sound and all).
Had to cut the sound off for Colonization though, didn't remember it was so annoying [img]smile.gif[/img]
Anyway, I will try more and more games with that and tell you which ones I made work.
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