natas on 11/3/2002 at 23:35
Hi, I'm huge Ultima fan, but have never played UW ! & II... and I can't get any sound in both UW I & II. I read carefully your install tips and still got the "sound installation failed" (or something) at the beginning.
My computer is an IBM Aptiva, Pentium I, 64 Mb RAM, Windows 95. The sound is via IBM MWave Soundblaster Compatible, Status OK (Compitble with Sound Blaster 1.5 & SoundBlaster Pro).
If you need anymore data, like my autoexec.bat file, please tell me.
I also have a pentium III, Windows XP, and got no idea how to run it or how to access the DOS.
Thanks for any help.
Natas,
Chile, South America
jezmilar on 12/3/2002 at 12:59
Problem is that you probably have to load all sorts of stuff for the card to work in dos mode. And its Windows (whatever version) drivers probably don't have support for dos mode/emulation. At these times sound card manufactures (and others too) aren't too eager on supporting DOS or those old legacy things.
Here's a tip. Have you ever tried a software that emulates those old legacy cards under Windows NT/2000/XP DOS boxes. Here's one for example: (
http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound/) VDMSound. It simplifies a lot of things (when it works that is... ;)).
And I heard that Windows XP itself has an emulation of this sort. Any experiences on that?
By the way, If you want Roland LAPC-1 or MT-32 emulated, then you should hold your self down. It's quite impossible (Well, it's possible but enormous task for whoever undertakes it). Reason for this is that though many midi cards have some sort of support for those cards, it is limited to a somewhat similar set of basic sounds. Problem is that most of those old great games reprogram the Roland's synthesizer chip and that quite frankly pulls the carpet from under the emulation. Emulating a complex synth chip is quite different from emulating a simple digital output.
SteveMcCrea on 12/3/2002 at 20:22
Try this to get sound & music working...
Go into your bios setup and set IRQ 5, 7, or 11 (whichever you can) to be "legacy device".
Set your sound card to use this IRQ (through the device manager) if you can.
Run uwsound and set everything to default.
Edit data/uw.cfg and change the first two lines to
2 -1 -1 -1 sound
2 -1 -1 -1 speech
Which should give you adlib sound and sbpro speech. You could change the first 2 to a 4 to give sbpro sound but it doesn't make any difference to the sfx and I found the music quality suffered.
The above worked for my Win98SE, SBLive combination.
Good luck!
Oh, and if you're having problems strafing and going backwards there's another thread in here that can help - search for strafe & uw. I found the Turbo program at 66% worked well.
natas on 18/3/2002 at 15:01
:thumb:
Thanx for the replies.
In fact, the driver was ok for windows but not for dos. I didn't hace a clue how to 'turn it on', so i checked the IBM page and an old post told me how to do it.
"Mwave on"
Now i'm fully enjoying both UW and UW2.
Natas
Tels on 18/3/2002 at 17:16
There are also some mp3s out there with UW and UWII style music and remakes.
