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Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 24.03.2024, 05:06

> Also, I did see the crash in Tyrian. It happens at the same time always for
> me, only when my ship is destroyed - and near the very end of that (and
> long, loud explosion sound), the system always hard freezes. Something
> about that sound it doesn't like (amplitude too high? ADPCM compressed
> format sound > 64 kb perhaps?).
>
> The hard system freeze doesn't happen if I enable the invulnerability
> cheat. This is done by pressing F2 + F3 + F6 all at once while in the
> flying mission. Then, the ship never crashes, and the game never crashes...
> Strange, but true!

Confirmed. It's rather a "freeze" than a crash, with the sound hardware "eternally" repeating the current content of the sample buffer. Actually, it's one of those "IRET doesn't restore interrupt flag in protected-mode if IOPL==0" problems, that the rational extender DOS4GW also suffers from.

It's hopefully fixed in the newest version - just download the binary again. Those "fixes" are all a bit hackish, but they work surprisingly well...

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MS-DOS forever!

Complete thread:

• Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 20.03.2024, 11:46 (Announce)
  • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Rugxulo, 21.03.2024, 05:52
    • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Laaca, 21.03.2024, 18:36
    • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 21.03.2024, 21:42
  • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Zyzzle, 23.03.2024, 02:58
    • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 23.03.2024, 10:54
      • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Zyzzle, 24.03.2024, 02:18
        • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 24.03.2024, 05:06
          • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Zyzzle, 25.03.2024, 22:42
  • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 26.03.2024, 06:16
    • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 26.03.2024, 08:34
      • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 26.03.2024, 13:48
        • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 27.03.2024, 02:17
          • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 27.03.2024, 06:33
            • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 27.03.2024, 14:06
              • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Laaca, 27.03.2024, 17:35
                • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 28.03.2024, 04:39
    • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Zyzzle, 27.03.2024, 14:27
      • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 27.03.2024, 16:02
        • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 27.03.2024, 17:39
          • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Zyzzle, 28.03.2024, 02:49
            • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 28.03.2024, 06:34
          • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 28.03.2024, 04:43
            • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 28.03.2024, 06:10
              • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 29.03.2024, 20:20
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