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All the music seems to be there, it's just triggering WAY too late. This is the best pinball game I know, I can play it for days in a row before I grow tired of it. Especially the first two boards.

If anyone could care to look deeper into the music issue, this game is complete. Runs perfectly in DOSBox at 10k cycles.

[The Fifth Horseman]

The floppy version will be up in a few days. It doesn't have the problem with music, and that's about the closest we can do.

can you get the game to run under xp or do i have to go back to 98 or millenium

[The Fifth Horseman]

Actually, I don't think it would work on 98 or ME. What you need to do is use DosBox to run the game. You can download it here.

You might then want to check out the official DosBox FAQ, and particularly this part of it. It is quite helpful for users unfamiliar with DosBox.

[Tulac]

The floppy version will be up in a few days. It doesn't have the problem with music, and that's about the closest we can do.[/b]

Done, thanks TFH.

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Ya-hoo! This has to be my favourite pinball game, especially because of Babewatch. That can glue me to the computer for hours, the table is so efficient in everything, with all the rules to mind-boggle you and the extra little features. The only backside is perhaps the slightly unusual handling of the paddles at some times, which is especially irritating when you have four balls on the field at the same time and when you have five seconds to hit a ramp.
I have been playing with the floppy version for weeks, now I have to start getting those 700 millions again in the CD version
For some odd reason though, I have no music after the modes start in The Vikings. Huh. Actually, I might return to the floppy version, that has setup at least. I have no problem with the 320xwhatever resolution though, at least a larger area of the table is visible than in the normal resolution. You just have to accompany yourself to it.

Edit: Someone help! Is there any way to change the number of balls from three to five like in the three table version?
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When the game was released many of the reviews complained about that music did not work... but that's cause they were using a pirated version... it plays the music from the CD - ordinary audio tracks... if someone could hack the driver so that it will report song length 1 second the mod-music will start playing - the CD cannot make a nice "repeat" without a short pause, why they are only played ones... i could try to dig up the original cd with the tracks and send to someone to put on the site... don't know if dos-box can play cd-audio-tracks? still, it is nice to see that people are apreciating the game - 12 years after it was made... too bad dos-box don't handle the raster tricks - eliminating flicker, changing the palette in the fantasies meny and so on... playd for an hour now, was some years ago i saw it... /johan (pc programmer of the game)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Mar 19 2007, 10:01 PM) [snapback]284282[/snapback]</div>

When the game was released many of the reviews complained about that music did not work... but that's cause they were using a pirated version... it plays the music from the CD - ordinary audio tracks... if someone could hack the driver so that it will report song length 1 second the mod-music will start playing - the CD cannot make a nice "repeat" without a short pause, why they are only played ones... i could try to dig up the original cd with the tracks and send to someone to put on the site... don't know if dos-box can play cd-audio-tracks? still, it is nice to see that people are apreciating the game - 12 years after it was made... too bad dos-box don't handle the raster tricks - eliminating flicker, changing the palette in the fantasies meny and so on... playd for an hour now, was some years ago i saw it... /johan (pc programmer of the game)
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The missing CD audio tracks thing is not just a problem for pirates. I have a copy of Pinball Gold Pack (purchased in a major store in Finland) which has no CD audio tracks (believe me, I've checked dozens of ways on many different CD drives). I figured out that the music skipping was due to missing CD audio a while ago, but I always figured this was a limitation of the Pinball Gold Pack release (i.e. the silly 3D animations in Pinball Arcade were taking up the space needed for CD audio). Do you have any information on this? I'd love to actually hear all the music on the Vikings table!

In any case, DOSBox has CD audio support, so getting Pinball Illusions to run perfectly shouldn't be a problem.

[The Fifth Horseman]

too bad dos-box don't handle the raster tricks - eliminating flicker, changing the palette in the fantasies meny and so on... [/b]

If you ask the DosBox development team about it, they may fix that in the next version.

I've come across this thread because I am having problems getting Illusions to run with DOSBOX, has anyone else encountered the '00560kb low and 15280kb high memory...' error when trying to run the .exe?

Any help greatly appreciated!

[The Fifth Horseman]

Which version of DOSBox are you using?