Hi Roberto, result of a quick test in dosemu: I used the install tool to set sound to none for fm, speaker for voice and then selected "update" to store settings. Now start,bat starts some endless loop of animation. Running "indark2 8 0" by hand without the "-d" of the batch file lets me access a menu with the ESC key but nothing fancy happens apart from that. Without the 8 0 options, the game tries to open PAK files with nonsense names or crashes, so it probably makes the PAK filenames by inserting the options into strings.
A typical reaction to other options than "8 0" is that the main exe tries to open etage00.pak or etage0/.pak ;-). It also sometimes starts up without complaining but showing only a black screen while "playing" (the menu still works unless you block it with the -d option). As there are no docs explaining the options, I cannot tell much more. The install tool is mouse-controlled MCGA, but it does not seem to allow you changing drive, path or graphics mode. You just unzip the file into the drive or path you want and then run the install tool, it seems. FM music choices are: None, Adlib, Soundblaster, Soundmaster. Sample/DSP soundcard choices are: None, PC Speaker / Buzzer, SB with DMA, Voice- master, Soundmaster, SB without DMA. It seems the install tool sometimes sends data to the printer port and/or thinks you want to exit it, so better unconnect your printer first. Maybe this is part of some Covox sound detection routing? Setting the FM sound to adlib seems to crash the game demo at once when you start it in dosemu - as this is the default setting, you should make sure to use the setup tool ;-). All FM options seem to crash for me, actually. As for the DSP sound: SB DMA sounds a lot better than the PC Speaker / Buzzer option, even in dosemu :-). Not all actions have sound effects though. I guess the plot of the demo is: A man breaks into a house, tries to rescue somebody, a clown puppet somehow kills him. Not really my taste :-p By the way, if you select "Voice Master" then you see that it actually means "Voice Master II, Speech Thing or DAC. This is just another wording for "Covox D/A on the printer port" ;-). The SB-without-DMA setting is silent for my in dosemu, dunno. Some other soundcard options for sampled sound effects crash. Eric > http://baixatudo.globo.com/Baixatudo/Categoria/Jogar/0,,DOA30330-7644-ALONE+IN+THE+DARK+2,00.html > there is a free demo version of Alone in The Dark 2 to do tests. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
