LucasArts Tie Fighter and sound cards

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<alvaromg@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to play the old TIE Fighter game from LucasArts, installed
> in a win98. My problem is the sound setup utility does not recognizes
> my sound card in the Express setup; the card is a PCI Yamaha DS-XG
> A301-G50. I also tried setting the different cards offered in the
> Custom setup, with nearly every setting combination, but no luck, no
> sound or midi at all. BTW, the card is installed in windows and sound
> works.
>
> The card settings are port 220, IRQ 3 and DMA 1 (or could be IRQ 1 and
> DMA 3, not sure).
>
> I would appreciate any help on this. Thanks,
> Alvaro Medina
>

I dont know if it will work but you could try vdmsound
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/

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It is the Collectors CD Rom edition. And VDMSound does not works in
Win98, it seems...

agh ha escrito:
> <alvaromg@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1121817525.700756.32780@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > I'm trying to play the old TIE Fighter game from LucasArts, installed
> > in a win98. My problem is the sound setup utility does not recognizes
> > my sound card in the Express setup; the card is a PCI Yamaha DS-XG
>
> I assume this is the DOS version. I would recommend getting a copy of X-Wing
> and Tie Fighter The Collector's edition from 1997, I think. It is the only
> edition which features X-Wing in a 640*480 graphics with updated textures
> and 3d video card support. Tie Fighter from that edition also has them,
> naturally..

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<alvaromg@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well finally I could run it under DOSBox, both under win98 an linux.
> Problem is the game is very slow, and my machine is quite a monster so
> it should be much faster. I will try other settings and will tell
> you...

Did you try increasing the number of CPU cycles (something like ctrl-+/-)
for this game?

BTW, there is this TIE Fighter® Collector's CD (1994)

and this
X-Wing® Collector Series (1998)

edition.

The second is what I was talking about and it should use DirectX and
DirectSound, I believe, regardless of which soundcard you have. Plus you get
better graphics..