Island of Secrets

[JRedant]

I sidetracked myself, and added in an intro sound file:

From:
http://www.classicalarchives.com/midi/composer/3190.html

the track Courante

I played around a bit with Soundbox, getting all the presets going with PC Speaker, Tandy (3 sound) and the other sound interfaces. So...how could I check it out using DosBOX?

[gumby]

Use Collector's DosBoxRunSetup app:

http://sciprogramming.com/community/index.php/topic,523.0.html

Just drop the installer in your game directory and run it.  Then your 'Run' button in Studio/Companion will use DosBox to run your game.  You may want to review your resource.cfg file as well to determine which sound driver you are using.

[JRedant]

My resource.cfg file says I'm using STD.DRV as my sound driver. So what does that mean?

[gumby]

Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that means that you will be getting 'beepers', just the pc speaker sounds.

[Collector]

Yes, PC speaker.

[JRedant]

Ah. Oh well! At least I can assume that the soundtrack is working. I'll leave it to other techno-savy people to figure out if the other sound configurations are working. In the meantime, I probably should get back to animating the tree!

[Collector]

Just set the soundDrv to SNDBLAST.DRV (ADL.DRV if SNDBLAST.DRV is missing) in the RESOURCE.CFG and drop the DosBoxRunSetup in your game's folder and run it. Your game will then start from the run button in Studio or Companion and if it coded right, with sound.

[JRedant]

ADL.DRV I have. I don't have SNDVLAST.DRV. Is that a separate file that I need to download?

edit: Changing the line "soundDrv  = STD.DRV" to "soundDrv  = ADL.DRV" gave me no sound. Was there something additional that I needed to do?

[gumby]

Yes, you'll need to download that separately.

If you haven't seen this post yet, it might help regarding sound/music in SCI games:
http://sciprogramming.com/community/index.php/topic,243.0.html

I can't remember where I downloaded the extra drivers (SNDBLAST.DRV, MTBLAST.DRV, etc).  I thought they were here somewhere, but I can't put my finger on them.  They might be linked to in a post.

It's probably time to package all the drivers & patches up in a single download.

[JRedant]

Sorry for causing all of these problems. 

[gumby]

No, I think it's good.  Just points out that we need to do some housekeeping.

Anyone know why these extra drivers weren't included in the template game(s)?  Are there copyright issues with redistributing them?

[JRedant]

Sorry to bring this up, but I can't get access to BrandonBlume.com. My browser has labelled it as malware, and when I got passed that, it mentions that the website account has been suspended.

[Doan Sephim]

You should be able to find the extra drivers in any of my games. If you download them, I believe you will find the drivers in the folder.

EDIT - Oops. Nevermind. I don't have the ones you mentioned either I only use MPUMIDI.DRV it seems

[JRedant]

Are you sure this isn't for us new guys to download your stuff, Doan?

I kid! I kid! Thanks a bunch! I'll be sure to do that, plus I'll check out your stuff while I'm at it!

[Collector]

They are on the Wiki.

http://sciwiki.sierrahelp.com/index.php?title=SCI_Sound_Utilities#SCI0_Sound_Drivers