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Posted April 12, 2012
I noticed the music in this game is not Midi like I expected. I believe it's Sound Blaster 16 or Adlib? Is there anyway to change this?
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Posted April 12, 2012
I know how to do it with the version I DOSBox'd myself, but I have no idea if GOG included the setup.exe in their version.
Posted April 12, 2012
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SirPrimalform: I know how to do it with the version I DOSBox'd myself, but I have no idea if GOG included the setup.exe in their version.
Out of curiosity, how did you change it with your own version of the game?
Posted April 12, 2012
DOSBox? When I had this game as an original, back in the day, it was a windows executable. This is a DOS version?
Posted April 12, 2012
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SirPrimalform: I know how to do it with the version I DOSBox'd myself, but I have no idea if GOG included the setup.exe in their version.
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PepsiDude002: Out of curiosity, how did you change it with your own version of the game?
I ran the setup program (also in DOSBox) to set up the sound. I can't remember exactly what I picked though, but it was some kind of external midi device. In the DOSBox config, I then made sure that the external MIDI was routed through to the windows MIDI. This got me music that sounded like the Windows version.
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xiriod: DOSBox? When I had this game as an original, back in the day, it was a windows executable. This is a DOS version?
The disc had both versions on, there's no real difference apart from the fact that the Windows version is now a pain in the arse to get working.
Post edited April 12, 2012 by SirPrimalform
Posted April 12, 2012
The disc had both versions on, there's no real difference apart from the fact that the Windows version is now a pain in the arse to get working.
Does this install also contain both versions? I had the original working quite well on Vista 64 some years ago. I just installed it, set compatibility to Win2k and ran it and it worked.
Posted April 12, 2012
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PepsiDude002: ...
Ok, I've just had a look and I've found out how to do it. The program is called "setsound.exe" and it's in the SOUND folder in the HOSPITAL folder. If you can't run it, I might be able to send you my sound configuration file.
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xiriod: Does this install also contain both versions? I had the original working quite well on Vista 64 some years ago. I just installed it, set compatibility to Win2k and ran it and it worked.
Sorry, I couldn't say because I don't have the GOG version. I still have my disc and just made my own GOG style self contained DOSBox version, so I have no need to buy it here.
Post edited April 12, 2012 by SirPrimalform
Posted April 12, 2012
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SirPrimalform: Ok, I've just had a look and I've found out how to do it. The program is called "setsound.exe" and it's in the SOUND folder in the HOSPITAL folder. If you can't run it, I might be able to send you my sound configuration file.
Unfortunately, I can't run it. It says that it doesn't work with my version of Windows (Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit). I think you might have to link me your sound config file instead.
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Posted April 12, 2012
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SirPrimalform: Ok, I've just had a look and I've found out how to do it. The program is called "setsound.exe" and it's in the SOUND folder in the HOSPITAL folder. If you can't run it, I might be able to send you my sound configuration file.
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PepsiDude002: Unfortunately, I can't run it. It says that it doesn't work with my version of Windows (Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit). I think you might have to link me your sound config file instead.
That's because it's a DOS program. :P
Just like the game, it needs to be run in DOSBox. I can try sending you my config file if you don't know how to use DOSBox "manually" though.

Download the attached image and put it in the same directory as setsound.exe and then find the file called MDI.INI.

Change it's name to something like MDI.INI.gog or something and then change the ".jpg" in the file I gave you to ".ini".
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Posted April 12, 2012
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PepsiDude002: Unfortunately, I can't run it. It says that it doesn't work with my version of Windows (Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit). I think you might have to link me your sound config file instead.
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SirPrimalform: That's because it's a DOS program. :P
Just like the game, it needs to be run in DOSBox. I can try sending you my config file if you don't know how to use DOSBox "manually" though.

Download the attached image and put it in the same directory as setsound.exe and then find the file called MDI.INI.

Change it's name to something like MDI.INI.gog or something and then change the ".jpg" in the file I gave you to ".ini".
That changed the sound. Thanks! Now it feels like the windows version that I played originally.
Posted April 13, 2012
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PepsiDude002: Unfortunately, I can't run it. It says that it doesn't work with my version of Windows (Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit). I think you might have to link me your sound config file instead.
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SirPrimalform: That's because it's a DOS program. :P
Just like the game, it needs to be run in DOSBox. I can try sending you my config file if you don't know how to use DOSBox "manually" though.

Download the attached image and put it in the same directory as setsound.exe and then find the file called MDI.INI.

Change it's name to something like MDI.INI.gog or something and then change the ".jpg" in the file I gave you to ".ini".
Thank you very much for this fix! Perfect.
Posted April 13, 2012
I did the above, and now have no music, anyone have any idea why this maybe?
Posted April 13, 2012
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CuervoJoe: I did the above, and now have no music, anyone have any idea why this maybe?
Did you remember to remove the .jpg from the replacement file?

EDIT: You don't have Windows set to "hide known file extensions" do you? That will stop you removing the .jpg extension.
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SirPrimalform: That's because it's a DOS program. :P
Just like the game, it needs to be run in DOSBox. I can try sending you my config file if you don't know how to use DOSBox "manually" though.

Download the attached image and put it in the same directory as setsound.exe and then find the file called MDI.INI.

Change it's name to something like MDI.INI.gog or something and then change the ".jpg" in the file I gave you to ".ini".
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wiimo: Thank you very much for this fix! Perfect.
This isn't anything that you couldn't do yourself, it's just most people don't know how to use DOSBox properly (which you need to run the sound setup program).
Post edited April 13, 2012 by SirPrimalform
Posted April 13, 2012
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CuervoJoe: I did the above, and now have no music, anyone have any idea why this maybe?
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SirPrimalform: Did you remember to remove the .jpg from the replacement file?

EDIT: You don't have Windows set to "hide known file extensions" do you? That will stop you removing the .jpg extension.
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wiimo: Thank you very much for this fix! Perfect.
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SirPrimalform: This isn't anything that you couldn't do yourself, it's just most people don't know how to use DOSBox properly (which you need to run the sound setup program).
Sorry to bother you, but how would I turn off the "hide known file extensions" option?
Posted April 13, 2012
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CuervoJoe: Sorry to bother you, but how would I turn off the "hide known file extensions" option?
It differs from one windows version to another and I honestly can't remember where the option is, but googling it along with the version of windows you use should find you the relevant information.

From that point it's just a question of making absolutely sure that the file I gave you has the exact name "MDI.INI". If it turns out that windows is hiding the extension then what looks like MDI.INI to you is actually MDI.INI.jpg.
Post edited April 13, 2012 by SirPrimalform
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