Hi,
I hope someone out there can help - I have been working on this problem for almost 2 weeks now - and no success! Of course - I dont know much about the autexec.bat or config.sys files and their structure (enough to be dangerious), and that might be the problem...Please except my apology if I am not posting this in the right place!
I have an older laptop (see specs at he end) and I am attempting to get some of my favorite old games to work on this system. They actaully RUN fine - but (after they boot automaticaly into MSDOS after start-up) I get NO CDROM background music!! It ruins the atmosphere to say the least! All in-game sounds work, I can actually see/feel the CDROM spin up like its playing a CD - I can see it change tracks via the in-game cd player - but no audio!
This I have tried:
-Finding specific DOS drivers (no luck - closest I could find was a Crystal Audio Init. program called CWDInit.exe)
-Adding Blaster statements
-Finding any information at all!! (NO LUCK!!)
Anyway - here are my systems specs - please if anyone has any ideas at all let me know - I am so **EXTREMLY** frustrated with this now - its taken all the fun out of playing my old games again...
Games that run, but have no CDROM Audio:
Blood
Blood Plasma Pack
Blood Cryptic Passage
Blood 2
Redneck Rampage
Redneck Rampage Rout 66
Redneck Rampage Rides Again
System Specs:
Model: Dell Latitude CPi D300XT Laptop
Model Number: PPL
ASSY PN:9321C
Dell LBL P/N: 4617P
SERVICE TAG #:ZYF2X
OS:Win95
300Mhz PII processor
64M Ram
Crystal 4237B Audio (Sound Blaster Pro-compatible voice and music functions)
Samsung CD-Rom 24X and Standard Floppy (swappable Bay)
Autoexec.bat
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\
LH C:\CDROM\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCDOOD /M:20
Config.sys
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EM386.EXE NOEMS
FILES=30
STACKS=0,0
BUFFERS=20
DEVICEHIGH=C:WINDOWS\COMMAND\ANSI.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM\SSCDROM.SYS /D:MSCDOOD /V
device=C:\WINDOWS\cwdinit.exe /w
What I get at the DOS promp:
c:\>c:\WINDOWS\CWDINIT.EXE /A
CrystalWare(tm) Audio Initialization Utility, Version 2.720
Copyright(c) 1997 Crystal Semiconductor Corp. All Rights Reserved
*Plug N Play BIOS Detected
*SBpro: I/O = 220, IRQ = 5, DMA = 1
c:\>