u/Chubawuba

I am trying to install RTZ-RM to play in Dosbox Staging.

I have followed all the instructions I can find on google. But it doesn't seem to be working or I messed something up somewhere.

I have the MT32 roms in my DosBox configuration folder, and my Staging folders. And I thought I had the conf file set up properly, but no matter what I try, it's not playing music.

The CD audio plays fine. But the general game music isn't playing.

If I have to, I can just use the REELmagic option for sound, but it's not overly impressive (I think it uses the SB/DOS version). I enjoyed the MT32 sound for my CD version.

Anyone have any tips for getting MT32 music to work? The sound effects seem to find of work. The river by the lighthouse makes sound. But the vulture in the beginning doesn't. And I can't figure out why I',m only getting some sound effects.

Boxer is built on DosBox, but I understand they Arne't the same thing. So if this is the wrong place to ask, I apologize.

I'm running Return to Zork in Boxer, and I'm having a weird sound issue.

I used my original CDROM disc to install it. But whenever I play it, I get this horrible static/distortion noise after videos play, and it will stop when I go to a new screen or another video plays. But it will start again later.

I have tried setting boxer at 386, 486, Pentium, and Max speeds. But if I set it too fast, I get scratches/skips in the music.

I have tried a Sound Blaster 16 setup, and a Roland MT-32 set up.

I have tried playing from my ISO rip, and my BIN/CUE rip.

Nothing seems to fix it.

Anyone have any tips?

I don't remember this being an issue on my old computer, so I don't remember what to do.

TIA

UPDATE: Holy crap! I think I got it fixed. I was running it with Sound Blaster 16 settings, because I believe it was out at the same time and I always just picked the 16. I just reinstalled it using Sound Blaster Pro, and it seems to work fine now.

Thanks for the staging/X tips though. I have the REELmagic version and have always wanted to play it, but couldn't. Now I might be able to finally check that one out too.

I'm running Return to Zork in Boxer, and I'm having a weird sound issue.

I used my original CDROM disc to install it. But whenever I play it, I get this horrible static/distortion noise after videos play, and it will stop when I go to a new screen or another video plays. But it will start again later.

I have tried setting boxer at 386, 486, Pentium, and Max speeds. But if I set it too fast, I get scratches/skips in the music.

I have tried a Sound Blaster 16 setup, and a Roland MT-32 set up.

I have tried playing from my ISO rip, and my BIN/CUE rip.

Nothing seems to fix it.

Anyone have any tips?

I don't remember this being an issue on my old computer, so I don't remember what to do.

TIA

UPDATE: I got it fixed. Reinstalled it and chose Sound Blaster Pro instead of 16. Don't know why but it seems to have issues with a 16 even though it's an option. But the 16 was relatively new at that point, so it makes sense.

But yeah, once I set it to the pro, it got rid of the distortion, and helped improve the skipping noise a little as well.

If this isn't the right place to ask, I apologize.

I am using Boxer on buy M2 Ultra Mac Studio, and I'm having an issue with a game (Legend of Kyrandia 1 if it helps), and the voice in that game is insanely quiet while the MT-32 volume is super loud.

I was curious if there was a way in boxer, or a dos command to run in a batch file before running the exe, that would lower the MT-32 volume while increasing the voice volume (I assume the voice would fall under Sound Blaster).

Or maybe turning down the MT32 volume while bringing up the master volume to help bring up the voice (which I tried using mixer MASTER, but it never seems to change it).

Is there some sort of hidden menu in boxer? Or an internal dos command I can run before loading the game?

Been a long time since I had to do the deep magic in DOS.

TIA.

It's been years since I played with VMware. Mainly since Apple upgraded to 64bit. I used it to run Win XP so I could play my old favorite windows games that wouldn't work on wineskin from the '90s and '00s.

I now have an M2 Ultra Mac Studio.

I was curious if there was a way to convert my old Win XP VM to work with newer VMware apps. I have the image from my previous computer (late 2015 iMac) with Win XP and all my games.

Mainly, I just don't want to have to go through the hassle of reinstalling everything and all the games.

If I can't convert the old image, is there a way to "copy and paste" or transfer the windows virtual machine to a new image file in a newer VMware app?

Or am I just being too hopeful that there is an easy fix?

TIA

I am trying to think of ‘80s kids movies that are strangely dark and tragic, or have moments that haunt 49 year olds still today. To recommend to my niece.

Stuff like…

Secret of NYMH

Land Before Time

Neverending Story

Could anyone give some more suggestions of kids movies that were surprisingly dark or depressing?

Edit: I’m not looking for horror scary. I mean more like the Artax scene in Neverending story. Or the whole mom angle in land before time. Those dark depressing moments.

Not trying to physically frighten her.

I'm curious, what was the source of track 4: Creid?

I know they were rearranged, and full disclosure I never played the game. So I don't have a lifetime experience of the music.

But I was always curious what the source was, and wanted to listen to the original track to hear what it sounds like.

Does anyone know the source of that track?

I started playing a couple days ago and I’m in chapter 6 I believe.

I have two quest icons in the game. One on Kalon Island. And one on the ship (I just recruited the seer).

But when I go to the island or the ship, they don’t show up anywhere. I’m at the end of Specular bay.

Did I do something wrong? Or is it a glitch?

Update: ok, apparently the one on kalon was a monster quest.

But I still can’t find the one on my ship.