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[_r.u.s.s.]

actually dosraider was right,
Portman, you've run setsound exe and set the sound to some digital sound or whatever, considering that the game has been ripped of the speech the game can't find it

so run your setsound.exe again and set no digital audio

also.. pick creative labs sound blaster or 100% compatible for music, whoever uploaded the game set general midi, which sets the output to windows default midi mapper, which also produces horrendous sounds

[dosraider]

Also:
Don't run the game from c: with c:\shannara\shannara as input, won't work.
do a

cd shannara
shannara


*If* you ran setsound or install, I would advise:
delete the shannara folder and start from scratch.
The game works really fine 'as is' out of the archive with nothing altered.

[_r.u.s.s.]

setting no digital sound is enough=P

[Portman]

[quote=dosraider;366210]Dosboxconf looks good.
Still missing some detailed and relevant info:

Inputs?
Add:
Did you ran setsound or install by any chance?
OS?
What unarchiver did you use?

Also:
do a cd shannara and a dir /w and post a screenie.
Screenies are taken with CTRL+F5 , you'll find it in
\progarm files\dosbox-0.72\capture\


I'm using Windows XP SP3, and for unpacking archives Winrar 3.80 and Winzip.
And yes, i did run the setsound executable - was it a mistake from my part? All my other dos games just work fine under dosbox without any errors.

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Portman

And yes, i did run the setsound executable - was it a mistake from my part?

Yes, that's the screw up.
Read my last post, delete the shannara folder and start over from scratch.

Most games on AB will run fine out of the archive, they are pre configured to run in dosbox.

[_r.u.s.s.]

portman, read this post

Originally Posted by _r.u.s.s.

actually dosraider was right,
Portman, you've run setsound exe and set the sound to some digital sound or whatever, considering that the game has been ripped of the speech the game can't find it

so run your setsound.exe again and set no digital audio

also.. pick creative labs sound blaster or 100% compatible for music, whoever uploaded the game set general midi, which sets the output to windows default midi mapper, which also produces horrendous sounds

holy crap, 3 pages of this junk, someone should split it into a separate topic in troubleshooting

[Portman]

Originally Posted by dosraider

Yes, that's the screw up.
Read my last post, delete the shannara folder and start over from scratch.

Most games on AB will run fine out of the archive, they are pre configured to run in dosbox.

The games runs fine after disabling digital audio, and it was not necessary to redownload it. Thank you all for the help and sorry for the trouble i have caused you.

[Mambaru]

Originally Posted by dosraider

Dosboxconf looks good.
Still missing some detailed and relevant info:

Inputs?
Add:
Did you ran setsound or install by any chance?
OS?
What unarchiver did you use?

Also:
do a cd shannara and a dir /w and post a screenie.
Screenies are taken with CTRL+F5 , you'll find it in
\progarm files\dosbox-0.72\capture\


Till the day you run into a game that won't run using D-Fend, then you'll be completely screwed, as so many before you.

Dosraider, point me in the direction of a game that cannot be run by D-fend please. As I've yet to find one.

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Mambaru

Dosraider, point me in the direction of a game that cannot be run by D-fend please. As I've yet to find one.

Only means that you aren't trying out as many games as I do ( some 3000+) .... *sigh*

For crying out loud ....
I let this one speaks for itself, happy reading, 728 posts, on Vogons only.
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=17415
Fact is, the devs did not include a GUI because:
-> There are extra problems with every dosbox update.
-> A GUI adds an extra layer of specific problems, over those who are dosbox specific.

Whatever, this has been a point in discussions over and over again, you want to use a GUI, do it, I won't get into another of those idiotic topics again.

Bye bye.

[Japo]

Originally Posted by _r.u.s.s.

by the way, the game control interface is terrible. i just sometimes wanna unclick an object and i always have to find an empty spot on map to do so, considering the fact that almost everything is clickable it turns into a devious pixel hunting

Right mouse button de-selects.