Jazz 1 music

[JustRob]

Hi I have a problem with the music in Jazz 1. The problem is that the music only plays the first 10 seconds of the tune and loops like that forever.

The menu theme for example, if you check this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnnFFEStA3c) tune, you can hear at 0:10 the music starts to get higher, well that doesn't happen in my Jazz 1 game. I'm using Dosbox, in the Jazz 1 Soundcard Setup thingy, I chose Soundblaster Pro and Pentium quality.

How can I fix this?

[Sonyk]

Did you make sure to set the proper DMA and IRQ settings in the setup utility? I think the default ones are different from the one DOSBox uses.

(IRQ should be 7, DMA should be 1)


edit: I forgot, but DOSBox emulates a SB16 card by default. Try that instead.

[JustRob]

Yeah, DosBOX will only start up the game if I use the Soundblaster cards, but that's also the cards I seem to have the problem with. I could only set IRQ and DMA options for the Gravis Ultrasound card, but DosBOX won't start the game using that card.

[Sonyk]

To use the Gravis Ultrasound in DOSBox you need to enable Ultrasound emulation in the DOSBOX.conf file and specify an ULTRASND directory with the proper drivers.

There's also a difference between SoundBlaster 16 and SoundBlaster Pro, the former being the superior card and easier for DOSBox to emulate properly.

[JustRob]

I downloaded the Gravis Ultrasound files, put them in the directory that's in the dosbox.conf file, and still it doesn't work. Jesus, this is pissing me off so much. I tried it on my school PC, and there I just had to launch up Dosbox and load Jazz1, and it worked like a charm.

Why am I having so much goddamn trouble.

[Dermo]

somebody just give him a working .bat file and stop being a bunch of losers about this

[Sonyk]

Since you're such a genius, you do it.

Aside from that, I don't know what the issue could be if you're positive you've got everything set right. Try a fresh installation of DOSBox?

[Dermo]

Ok...

Sound file:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8k276s

DOSBox Config File:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/t4veab

Of course the DOSBox configuration file is assuming that your JJ1 installation is in C:\Games\Jazz1 You would have to change that to whereever your Jazz Jackrabbit installation is located. Then overwrite your configuration file with mine and your sound ini file with the one i provided and you should be in working shape.

And I don't claim to be a genius, Sonyk. That's why I asked somebody else to do it, but since I apparently know it all, I'll give it a shot now.

[Sonyk]

He already stated that he's tried default settings on a different computer and it worked perfectly. He says he's changed nothing on his. Your batch file wouldn't affect him if that were the case.

Using a dosbox.conf file with default settings (and a small autoexec that launches jazz automatically) is fairly superfluous too when he could accomplish all that with shortcut parameters, but that wasn't the issue here.

[JustRob]

Still no go. Tried those files, tried reinstalling Dosbox several times... Nada.

I'm through with it, I guess it just doesn't wanna work on my PC.