Since this has been an ongoing issue, I felt compelled to add my own 2 cents to it...
My setup for LoL is that I have created an ISO image of the CD version. I boot this with MagicDisc, a tool that allows for mounting ISO images as virtual drives. So, you get a virtual CD drive with the mounted CD, as if you had the real CD loaded. It adds greatly to the speed...
Anyway, I don't use dosbox or anything else, I run directly from within XP. To get the sound, here is something that I got a long long time ago when HotU was still up:
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If you want to run the game under Windows 95 (or any Windows really), you
need to copy the file VWWSD.386 to your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, and
you'll need to add three lines to your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI under the
[386Enh] section, like this:
...
[386Enh]
device=vwwsd.386 <-- These are the new lines
DMABufferSize=064 <--
WWSBufferSize=064 <--
...
Don't forget to reboot Windows BEFORE you attempt to start Lands of Lore!
The game _might_ run without this modification of Windows, but will most
probably crash, and will definately not have speech!
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Then you do setup.exe and configure the game (soundblaster should work for most computers).
Also important, when running directly under XP, use the "Lands" Shortcut to MS-DOS to start the game, NOT Lands.bat or any of the ones you would use under DOS.
This worked for me. Glad I could play this great game, even though I had to take a 6-year break after making it to the Draracle...