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Dungeon Master 2 Audio Bafflement
Posted by: intric8 on 2020-10-10 09:59:55
Hey Everyone! 

I own a Quadra 700 running System 7.1 and I've connected an AppleCD 300e Plus to it. It works great - I love it.

I decided to play Dungeon Master 2 on the system; it comes on CD-ROM. When I launch the game and move around there is only the music soundtrack playing. If I go to the Sound options only the music volume slider is shown. The place where the sound effects slider should be is blank. 

I moved the CD-ROM over to my G3 Wallstreet Powerbook running 9.2. It has a few extra video options (the game was enhanced for PowerPc) which makes sense. But it also has sound effects now working, too. If I go to the sound options, there are indeed 2 options. For some reason the game's S/FX are missing for the System 7.1 environment. 

Could I be missing some sort of sound extension or control panel in 7.1 to let the sound effects work? Surely the game should run S/FX with this sweet little 040 @ 25 Mhz. 

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide. The user manual is pretty useless. 
Posted by: Byrd on 2020-10-10 10:22:39
Try installing System 7.1 System Update 3.0, which installed Sound Manager 3.0 - it might give the functionality for both CD audio and sound to be played simultaneously.
Posted by: intric8 on 2020-10-10 10:33:46
Thank you, Byrd. I will do that for sure. 

I'm a little embarrassed I have fixed the issue, and you were 100% on the right track. I was playing off the CD. The reason being it eats up 30MB of hard drive space to install the game, and my drive is only 80MB total. I only had 35MB free. 

But, I went ahead and installed it anyway. 

Once I decided to do that, I could see during the install the CD actually put some version of Sound Manager on there, as well as Quicktime 2. My Mac is almost full, but once I started the game my S/FX were there! So happy. 

Thanks again, Byrd. I really appreciate you trying to help out. I'll go install the System Update, too. I imagine there are a few more missing bits I should fill in (if it doesn't go over 5MB. Gulp!)

😉

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