home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!uuserv.cc.utah.edu!tyler.brown
- From: tyler.brown@uuserv.cc.utah.edu (TYLER JAMES BROWN)
- Subject: Re: Dune II soundcard support
- Message-ID: <tyler.brown.71.726260304@uuserv.cc.utah.edu>
- Lines: 43
- Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
- Organization: The University of Utah
- References: <tyler.brown.70.726178417@uuserv.cc.utah.edu> <1993Jan5.045520.13460@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:58:24 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan5.045520.13460@nuscc.nus.sg> law40003@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN YEW KEONG) writes:
- >From: law40003@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN YEW KEONG)
- >Subject: Re: Dune II soundcard support
- >Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:55:20 GMT
- >TYLER JAMES BROWN (tyler.brown@uuserv.cc.utah.edu) wrote:
- >: >
- >: >Is this true? I installed the game with my soundcard
- >: >successfully, and only get soundeffects and music. Is
- >: >anyone out there getting voice? I have a 386-20 w/
- >: >Media Vision 16-bit sound card (sound blaster compatible,
- >: >but sound blaster pro compatible???).
- >: >
- >: A friend has this game with a sound blaster pro. There is a little
- >: speech but not much. It tells you when you complete a level and a couple
- >: words in the introduction but thats about it. When you run over an infantry
- >: unit with a tank or harvester, they make a pretty cool digitized scream.
- >: Thats about it though.
- >: Tyler
- >
- >Actually, there's more. I have 8 megs in my 486, and everything in this
- >game is about speech - the guys report to you, when your harvester's
- >idle it tells you, the mentat speaks to you, there are vocal wormsign
- >warnings, lots and lots of screams, squelching sounds when guys get run
- >over by the harvester, many different voices depending on which house
- >you're playing (Ordos Mentat sounds like a bloody faggot, but the
- >Atreides woman is really sexy!)
- >
- >I only have a SB 1.0 (not Pro!). I suspect that the manual's 2M
- >requirement is wrong, and the manual's description of the types of
- >memory is totally wrong, confusing expanded with extended memory.
- >
- >Why don't the guys with 4M machines get rid of all the TSRs and
- >(especially) the disk caches, and try again? You really would love the
- >voices!
- >--
- >
- >_________________________________________________________________________
- >Michael Tan Yew Keong | law40003@nusunix1.nus.sg | law40003@nusvm.nus.sg|
- >Final Year Law student - OH GOD, IT'S BEEN A HELLUVA LONG TIME!!! |
- >________________________________________________________________________|
- You are right. I have only 1 meg of memory and I get very little
- speech. I guess I just need more memory...
- Tyler
-