First post, by Dark-Star
I'm running Dosbox on a 400Mhz pc with 236 megs of RAM...Awhile ago I got the game from a swap meet and ran it on my laptop. It worked at the DOS prompt (hit F8, command prompt only) as long as I disabled EMS memory in config.sys like so:
DEVICE=c:\emm386 noems
For some reason my CTX laptop's ESS Audiodrive has -incredible- support for pure DOS sound without any drivers needed! Unfortunately 😒 the hard drive has started to go bad and I have discontinued using it as much as possible. But WOE (wrath of earth) refuses to run under windows or in a windows 'dos-window ' even with the EMS fix.
Then I got DOSBOX...
Now it runs, but I'm not sure what is the fastest 'output' option to use, and I need to know that badly! I really honestly need to have at least sound enabled as the game relys very much on sound warnings and cues. PC speaker is about useless. Anybody have some ideas?
P.S.---I might be able to send anyone who wants it the copy of the CD if you want to try it for yourself...just copy all the files into a directory and it runs! (as far as I can tell, the entire company is no longer in existance at all, and thus no one will give a flying rip.)
Give us a 640 x 480 screen, 256 colors, some time, and my own imagination...and we can *still* make exciting and beautiful games for decades to come.