[usman]

Hi,

Is it possible to play Drascula on Windows XP without Dosbox as Dosbox seems to be complicated for me

[sammiessweetiepie]

No. The older games will not play on XP. You are told they will, but they will not. I got messed up with DOSBOX to and said forget it.

[usman]

Well how to configure Drascula on Dosbox ?

Dosbox is complecated

[RLacey]

Try downloading the D-Fend plugin (available at the DOSBox website). That should make setting it up far more straightforward. Assuming that you know how DOS sound drivers work, of course .

PS. If you use the D-Fend wizard, don't forget to mount the appropriate drives .

[englandsoccer]

JUst go into the properties for dracula and change to play using windows 98 or 2000. if you do this you shouldn't have a problem

[Aurebesh]

using dosbox is very simple. you only need to perform two things:

1) type "mount c c:\"
2) type "mount d <your CD-ROM drive letter>:\ -t cdrom"
that's it. now type d: (and enter) to access your real cd-drive from dosbox, and start installing the game. it will install it to your C: drive (if you want to install it to a different drive, just type it instead of c:\ in step 1, e.g., "mount c d:\"
where did you find drascula by the way? is it the english version? did it come with a box?

[usman]

Originally Posted by Aurebesh

using dosbox is very simple. you only need to perform two things:

1) type "mount c c"
2) type "mount d <your CD-ROM drive letter> -t cdrom"
that's it. now type d: (and enter) to access your real cd-drive from dosbox, and start installing the game. it will install it to your C: drive (if you want to install it to a different drive, just type it instead of c in step 1, e.g., "mount c d"
where did you find drascula by the way? is it the english version? did it come with a box?

Well the Problem is the game sound is not been configured I got ASUS K8VX Board with on Board Sound Card. Please Help

My Drascula is in English with out box or Manual.

[Aurebesh]

It's irrelevant what sound card you're really have, under DOSBox configure the game to use SoundBlaster.
To this, you have to locate the game's configuration program (usually SETUP.EXE or INSTALL.EXE), and run it inside DOSBox. When you reach the point to choose a soundcard, choose SoundBlaster or something similar.

[usman]

Originally Posted by Aurebesh

It's irrelevant what sound card you're really have, under DOSBox configure the game to use SoundBlaster.
To this, you have to locate the game's configuration program (usually SETUP.EXE or INSTALL.EXE), and run it inside DOSBox. When you reach the point to choose a soundcard, choose SoundBlaster or something similar.

Well I did that as well, but the problem is the card is not configured properly

It gives crappy beep while the game is running I uses Soundblaster 100% compatable with all default options but no HELP!

[Aurebesh]

I assume you mean you configured the game to "Soundblaster 100% compatable " under DOSBox. Ok, I need more details. What are the default options? Does the game let you set IRQ and stuff like that? Try these settings: I/O (or BASE) = 220, IRQ = 7, DMA = 1.

[usman]

Originally Posted by Aurebesh

I assume you mean you configured the game to "Soundblaster 100% compatable " under DOSBox. Ok, I need more details. What are the default options? Does the game let you set IRQ and stuff like that? Try these settings: I/O (or BASE) = 220, IRQ = 7, DMA = 1.

Well have done all the same IRQ=7 DMA=1 and 220, but same bad sound caooming out from speaker

[Aurebesh]

Well, perhaps DOSBox doesn't support this game. I wish I'd be able to check for myself but I don't have this game (still looking for the existence of a boxed copy)

[usman]

Originally Posted by Aurebesh

Well, perhaps DOSBox doesn't support this game. I wish I'd be able to check for myself but I don't have this game (still looking for the existence of a boxed copy)

I am afraid it rather difficult now a days to find specially a Boxed copy

[Fien]

Originally Posted by Aurebesh

Well, perhaps DOSBox doesn't support this game. I wish I'd be able to check for myself but I don't have this game (still looking for the existence of a boxed copy)

I don't think there ever was a boxed copy. Not the English version.

Of course I could be wrong...

[Aurebesh]

Yeah, I guess there wasn't. Oh, well. Were you able to run this one under DOSBox? Poor usman seems to have a problem with it.

[Fien]

I don't use DOS box, I play older games on older machines. But I had problems with Drascula too, everything moved way too fast. So I put it back on its shelf.

[Caroline]

I have managed to play Drascula on windows XP.
First I installed the game on my computer.

Then configured the sound through dosbox 0.63.
Mount dosbox as usual and then
cd\drascula
c : \ drascula\setup (use no dashes between c : \drascula)
I have configuered the sound as:
Soundblaster 2.0
Port 220
IRQ 7
DMA 1

I am also using d-fend to configure the cycles. Unfortunally you can't download this anymore. Anyway: Put cycles on 10000.

Game plays fine with me. Music and speech is all perfect. Hope this will work out for others too.