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[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Ohma

.... (or why it wouldn't install correctly) .....
So yeah, problem solved, though I still have no idea what was wrong in the first place

You don't need to install it completely, that's why.
You only run the install and:
Choose 'reconfiguration of hardware options', as we told you.
NOT "install files to hard disk".

[Ohma]

I'm well aware of that, my problem wasn't that I was getting a "please insert disk whatever" error, it's that what sound there is in the game would not play (for reasons that are beyond me). Like I said in my initial post, messing around with the install program's audio settings had no effect (and I wasn't getting any options in those settings to select the irq ect. settings for the emulated sound card, which, come to think of it, may have been the problem, but fucked if I know why I wouldn't be getting those options on two separate computers/installations of DOSBox/downloads of MoO).

[dosraider]

As it works for several of us, with the AB download, you can safely assume that you screwed up somewhere.
Now screwed up is maybe not the right expression, but more probably you did a wrong manipulation somewhere.
Did you check if your unzipper didn't tagged the files/folder read only?

[Ohma]

Yes, I've checked that (something else which I mentioned in the OP), nothing was marked read only.

I'm betting that it was something I was doing wrong, but since I had done everything that had been suggested that I do (as well as a bunch of other things that didn't pan out), and I keep hearing the same suggestions despite me saying that I had tried them (and in the case of the 'change the IRQ settings' suggestion, the options I was given within the program for some reason did not include said settings), I have no clue what I could be doing wrong.

Additionally I'd suggest that anyone else having problems getting sound to work from their download of Master of Orion here, just search for another download elsewhere (the one I'm talking about is on someone's little MoO fan page), and download the version that is formatted as though it were the original disks. Simply unzip all the files from inside the disk folders and mount the directory you unzipped them to as a floppy drive in DOSBox and install the game (and subsequently get sound along with it) will be a snap. Granted you'll have to deal with the copy protection, but I think if you're savvy enough to do all that you can just as easily find the manual, or a copy protection cheat sheet, somewhere (I just dug up my own copy of the manual I had lying around, mmm nothing beats that dusty old game manual smell ).

[Scatty]

Well you can download the manual for Master of Orion and many other games from Replacementdocs