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Posted March 29, 2019
I only tried single player briefly and it seems to work fine.
Mouse and keyboard scrolling is too fast by default but OK on low settings.
Depending on your resolution settings (I tried integer scaling to fullscreen) there may be issues with the mouse being outside the screen, so boarder scrolling might not work and you might 'lose' the mouse in the black boarder area. Ssame as for Diablo really.

Since GOG does not include the music as extra you have to extract it yourself if you want it.
Get `mpq-tools` and run `mpq-extract -e Install.mpq`, your file manager or `file` will tell you which of the resultant files are WAV files. The larger ones are the music tracks.
Post edited March 29, 2019 by hollunder
Posted March 30, 2019
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hollunder: I only tried single player briefly and it seems to work fine.
Mouse and keyboard scrolling is too fast by default but OK on low settings.
Depending on your resolution settings (I tried integer scaling to fullscreen) there may be issues with the mouse being outside the screen, so boarder scrolling might not work and you might 'lose' the mouse in the black boarder area. Ssame as for Diablo really.

Since GOG does not include the music as extra you have to extract it yourself if you want it.
Get `mpq-tools` and run `mpq-extract -e Install.mpq`, your file manager or `file` will tell you which of the resultant files are WAV files. The larger ones are the music tracks.
I was about to write the same thing, so thanks dude :P

I know about the scrolling issue: Actually, I experience the same thing playing the DOS version, even in older hardware, but not on a 486-P1, so I think this is a cock-up from Blizzard and CPU cycle tyming. This bug/crappy programming passed trough the BattleNet version, which is just a layer for Win9x (MS-DOS, but a fancy start menu that wouldn't run on pure DOS, even if the game is the same). I tried on Windows 10 and scrolling is equally shitty. You need to run this game on an older Pentium 1 or lower to be able to mouse-scroll.

I had 0 trouble with the music, even with winefreshly compiled and no timidity daemon or anything of the sort. I assumed it weas reading the Midi files as ogg or something similar. I have to say that I am using Slackware with full install, which adds a lot of libraries and stuff. The music just works fine.
Posted March 30, 2019
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hollunder: I only tried single player briefly and it seems to work fine.
Mouse and keyboard scrolling is too fast by default but OK on low settings.
Depending on your resolution settings (I tried integer scaling to fullscreen) there may be issues with the mouse being outside the screen, so boarder scrolling might not work and you might 'lose' the mouse in the black boarder area. Ssame as for Diablo really.

Since GOG does not include the music as extra you have to extract it yourself if you want it.
Get `mpq-tools` and run `mpq-extract -e Install.mpq`, your file manager or `file` will tell you which of the resultant files are WAV files. The larger ones are the music tracks.
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vladimir1986: I was about to write the same thing, so thanks dude :P

I know about the scrolling issue: Actually, I experience the same thing playing the DOS version, even in older hardware, but not on a 486-P1, so I think this is a cock-up from Blizzard and CPU cycle tyming. This bug/crappy programming passed trough the BattleNet version, which is just a layer for Win9x (MS-DOS, but a fancy start menu that wouldn't run on pure DOS, even if the game is the same). I tried on Windows 10 and scrolling is equally shitty. You need to run this game on an older Pentium 1 or lower to be able to mouse-scroll.

I had 0 trouble with the music, even with winefreshly compiled and no timidity daemon or anything of the sort. I assumed it weas reading the Midi files as ogg or something similar. I have to say that I am using Slackware with full install, which adds a lot of libraries and stuff. The music just works fine.
Maybe turning down cycles in dosbox would help, but that would slow it down altogether.

Oh music is fine, what I described is a way to extract it if you want to listen to it outside the game.
It doesn't use MIDI at all as far as I know, there are a number of music tracks as WAV.
Most of them are made for looping, so that may be the simple reason why they haven't included the soundtrack, it could probably use a bit of simple editing.
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