Ok i run this game either in VDM Sound 0r dos box and it boots up. Its a newish comp with XP. Two problems:

Major problem: All text in the game, from the menus to breifing the letters are scrambled into random and sometimes foreign characters with lots of spaces.
Minor Problem: At the menu screen the mouse moves slow as hell but its not that big a deal cause i still can start it up.

Everything else seems to work fine get sound and the speech when Vissuluth (sp?) talks at the start. I can play levels except i wont know my breifing. anyhelp greatly appreciated

Try to increase the emulation speed of DosBox by pressing CTRL+F12 (CTRL+F11 decreases) while it's running.