Original DooM... no sound

[TwoRails]

Felt like playing some good old fashion DooM (and DooM II, and Final DooM for Win 95) but there is no music sound. I have sound effects (gun fire, monster noise, door sounds, etc).

Running XP Pro SP2, and running the game in Win 95 compatibility mode.

Any ideas?

TIA

[Force Flow]

You may have to play this one with the DOSBox emulator

[TwoRails]

I might have to play with it more, but it is giving me trouble. It doesn't work with Doom for Win 95 as it's not a DOS executable. So, I tried it with DukeNukem 3D, and got the error the tokens are too big.

Any thing else to try?

[sgtspector]

I have played it successfully in a dos 3.22 virtual pc. It didn't recognize my mouse though. I think you will need a ps/2 mouse if you are using usb.

[hitchface]

Is the music turned on/up?

I have to ask, because it is easy to overlook the simple stuff.

[glc]

With that old stuff, the music is probably midi. Today's onboard sound handles midi a lot differently than the Soundblasters those games were designed for.

[TwoRails]

Originally Posted by sgtspector I have played it successfully in a dos 3.22 virtual pc. It didn't recognize my mouse though. I think you will need a ps/2 mouse if you are using usb.

Is that a stand alone program, or are you meaning you installed DOS in a MS Virtual PC?

Originally Posted by hitchface Is the music turned on/up? I have to ask, because it is easy to overlook the simple stuff.

That's always a good question! Yep, I checked.

Originally Posted by glc With that old stuff, the music is probably midi. Today's onboard sound handles midi a lot differently than the Soundblasters those games were designed for.

Ya, either the sound effects or the music is midi, and the other isn't. I'm running an Audigy 2 in this box (which isn't really a "sound blaster") if that helps.

[glc]

An Audigy should handle midi fine - but you may need to change the way it handles it, try different preferred midi playback devices in control panel, sounds and multimedia. You probably have several to choose from.

[TwoRails]

Cool!! That works just fine for DooM for Win 95 ! -- I have 6 choices under the Audio tab, 5 of which are Audigy xxx, and one that is MS GS Wavetable SW Synth. I tried the MS one and it works.

Thank you.

Now that I remember DukeNukem 3D, which is DOS, how do I get that one working?

That sure would make me a happy camper!

[glc]

http://buildxp.deathmask.net/

Ain't Google wonderful?

[sgtspector]

Is that a stand alone program, or are you meaning you installed DOS in a MS Virtual PC?

That's dos installed in Virtual PC. Then I installed Doom into the dos VPC.

[TwoRails]

I'll check into that, glc. "Blood" was a blast, too

sgtspector, the sound works fine? I might play with that, too... now to find my old DOS diskettes.

[Nuclear Krusader]

Hope you find those DOS 6.22 floppies.

[faulkner132]

Utilities designed just for playing DOS games in Windows:

http://www.abandonia.com/main.php?nav=programs

[TwoRails]

Hey Nuclear Krusader!! Long time no see - - I kinda stopped looking for them. I still have a few more boxes to go thru. I'm amazed how quickly I found the 6.0 floppies, though. ??? Oh well (just thought of another place too look...)

Thanks for the links, faulkner132 I'll be playing with this more when I have time. I do want to get to playing Duke3D and Blood, but now that DooM for Win 95 is working, I'll probably play that for a while, until I wear it out again.