timppu:

tburger: Voted yes, but I don’t think many of GOG’s customers would benefit from it. As timppu said – I’m fine with status quo as long as GOG doesn’t remove sound/music executables.

timppu: I voted yes, albeit I understand why GOG doesn't necessarily want to do it. It would mean more support calls towards GOG when newbies set DOS game sound card IRQs, ports and DMAs to wrong values without any understanding of what they mean and what they should be, and it doesn't work at all anymore. GOG strives to offer a simpler "just click to play" also for DOS games, that has less probability for user errors.

Or even if the user selects the right values, there can still be issues, like in Win7 and Win8, if you select General MIDI music for Little Big Adventure (instead of the default Soundblaster/Adlib music), it will play far too loud compared to the sound effects, and you'd need special steps (adding extra MIDI volume level commands into DOSBox conf file) and maybe even third-party programs (BASSMIDI) to lower the General MIDI music volume to tolerable levels.

I presume that is the reason why they've set the music to poorer Soundblaster in LBA, as it works more uniform across different systems, than the superior General MIDI music.

And with many DOS games, the users would need either Munt (not fully legal due to the ROMs) or a real Roland MT-32/CM-32L unit anyway to get the correct, superior music. The Adlib/Soundblaster music always sounds pretty much correct, even if poorer, without any tinkering.

So I'm fine without as well, even though then it means extra steps for me to change it. As long as GOG doesn't remove any sound setup executables from games.

timppu: I voted yes, albeit I understand why GOG doesn't necessarily want to do it. It would mean more support calls towards GOG when newbies set DOS game sound card IRQs, ports and DMAs to wrong values without any understanding of what they mean and what they should be, and it doesn't work at all anymore. GOG strives to offer a simpler "just click to play" also for DOS games, that has less probability for user errors.

tburger: Voted yes, but I don’t think many of GOG’s customers would benefit from it. As timppu said – I’m fine with status quo as long as GOG doesn’t remove sound/music executables.

SirPrimalform: If they left it in the game directory but without any magic dosbox shortcuts to it then the newbies wouldn't even know how to run the setup program. Problem solved maybe?

SirPrimalform: They frequently do. It appears I misunderstood the purpose of this thread. I thought it was a call for them to stop removing the setup programs, but it appears it's actually a request for them to have shortcuts to them. Still voted yes because hopefully it'll stop GOG removing them.

SirPrimalform: I'm not sure that they're removing them with newer installers, just that some games right from their release here have had them missing for no good reason. I can't remember which games off the top of my head, but there have been complaints in the individual game forums.

SirPrimalform: I'm not sure that they're removing them with newer installers, just that some games right from their release here have had them missing for no good reason.

Arkose: Note that some GOG releases such as Ultima Underworld have the sound setup program inside the CD image so it's still there but you won't find it with a casual investigation of the installation folder.