Hi
Anybody has sound in King's Bounty? Tried DOSBox 0.65 and 0.72 to no avail. Everything is okay minus the sound. No effects nor midi music. WinXP mixer is on, other DOSBox games have sound.
Could you please try installing King's Bounty to see if you have sounds?
thanks!
Only the PC Speaker option gives 'sounds'.
The DOS version is ~674KB. The Sega Megadrive/Genesis version is 512KB and it has nice music and sound effects. I'm wondering about the DOS version not containing sound data in so many bytes?
This game seems to support PC Speaker only.
Heh. It could be the grandfather for Heroes of Might & Magic III.
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It's certainly a distant relative of some sort. NWC did the Might and Magic games too.
Even Wikipedia agrees
King's Bounty and Heroes of Might and Magic
King's Bounty is widely considered to be the precursor for much of the gameplay in the Heroes of Might and Magic series (the Might and Magic series being the basis for the storyline), both of which were published by New World Computing and designed by Jon Van Caneghem. Among the many similarities, an emphasis on hero development and combat style are especially prominent in both. In the introduction to the player manual of Heroes III, van Caneghem credits King's Bounty as the precursor to Heroes of Might and Magic.[1] King's Bounty is included in some HOMM anthologies, including the Heroes of Might and Magic Compendium and Heroes of Might and Magic Millennium Edition. The anthology versions also provide a native executable for Windows, though not fully supported in Windows NT-based operating systems.
King's Bounty doesn't have any sound
It's PC-speaker. You should be able to run it fine in any version of DOSBOX, however if your PC is too new, it may not have a PC speaker.
Well pcspeaker is sound, too, and it's emulated by dosbox fwiw. See ElPusher's reply.
King's Bounty never had sound beyond PC speaker, but despite that is a great game and has many features which I loved that never carried over in to the newer versions HOMM, HOMM2 etc so yeah HOMM is deirectly related to/based on KB, the only differences being KB single player instead of HOMM multiplayer. Monsters, Skills and many other parts of the game are still part of HOMM today.
