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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(evolution @ May 30 2005, 09:37 AM) [snapback]112645[/snapback]
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hey just dusted off the old zork and was looking forward to playing it but i've hit a couple of snags. firstly the movies play way too fast and secondly i have no sound?!!
im running winXP with a realtek ac'97 audio. someone posted a similar problem with the same specs but it never got resolved. Im hoping that someone has found a way to play this great game with the same specs that i have.
cheers.
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same problem heelllppp!!
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Wow, I still have my disc from... What is it now? 13 years ago? Somehow, impossibly enough, the CD has a minimum of scratches (compared to, say a disc I have from 10 years ago that is covered in so many scratches it's not even funny.) Anywho, fired up DOSBox, mounted the CD-ROM, and installed. Ok, so with the current version I'm using it definitely doesn't handle too well. The videos play fine and everything, but, the actual in-game part plays as if you were trying to run it on an underclocked 386. Definitely not doable. I tried VDMSound and did indeed see the same problems you've had. It doesn't seem to recognize the sound even when properly configured or something I think. As for the videos, it looks like some kind of file access problem to me, or maybe even the culprit is just simply the sound (it may use sound for syncing so without the sound it looses syncing and runs all frames at the max.)
Anyway, this game needs to be played in DOSBox in Windows XP clearly. It's listed as playable, so I'm guessing you have to use an older version than I'm currently using (a CVS compile from just a few days ago.) Later on I'll try to see if I can track down what works best for it. Since it's listed as fully playable with no notes on speed problems it surely works in several versions without noticable issues.