Skyrealms Legacy of Jorune in Dosbox - Sound

[neo_viral]

Hi all

Ive been trying to play Skyrealms Legacy of Jorune via Dosbox and also D-Fend (im rusty in both at the moment i`ll admit)
I can install the game but it never asks me to set up sound and there doesnt seem to be a setsound.bat anywhere or something similar (installed via dosbox,running win 7 64)

My problem comes when i run the game as at the moment i can only run it with paramater \x (ie no sound) otherwise the game freezes up at the intro or when the first alien appears and crashes with a "cannot_play_music+ etc error

I have the CD mounted and the Virtual drive also mounded as a CD rom drive in dosbox config (and game itself installed to C:\Alien although during install it did say according to it my files were files =7 only and i needed files-=60 at least (but still continued the install and also i did fiddle around with a line like that in config.sys but didnt change anything...not really related to the music/sound issue i guess)

Could someone perhaps please share their setup /config tips to get sound and music working on this one ?
Ive googled for patches etc as apparently the game had some issues but of course with it being so old they seem to have disapeared into limbo :/

Havent experienced this before with any other dos game ive tried all sound normal on those its just this game so far thats a bit of a puzzle for me

Many thanks!

[GigaWatt]

Are you sure you've mounted CD image properly, i.e. via cue sheet?

[neo_viral]

Yup,with Virtual Clonedrive (who doesnt seem to want to mount the cue but the bin it can mount fine) and then i tried mounting with UltraIso which was ok with mounting either the bin or the cue file

I could install except it never asked me for sound options -i browsed install.nfo and theres some command lines which goes along the lines of :
; INSTALL.NFO v2.30, created 10/31/1994
; Game Name
Jorune: Alien Logic
; Default game directory.
\ALIEN + ALIEN\DATA.A00 + ALIEN\DATA.A01 + ALIEN\DATA.A02
; Game bytes needed.
10500000
; ARJ method.
1
; Command to start game.
ALIEN
; CD info. 0 = Disk, 1 = CD
1
; Conventional memory needed.
540
; XMS needed.
6000
; EMS needed.
0
; VESA needed.
1
; Mouse needed.
1
; Joystick needed.
0
; DOS ver needed.
5.0
; System Detection
1
; Run Sound Install?
1

Its like theres a switch for that and because of maybe a comma or something somewhere it doesnt run it ?
Im suspecting its the cause of my sound lockup problem..the game is trying to run /force some sort of audio configuration for music its autodecided on and dosbox or dfend just doesnt like it

Install seems to decompress some files and then say game has been installed sucessfully and then exit

[GigaWatt]

You have to mount CD image in DosBox using imgmount command (or create a config file with autoexec section), for example:

imgmount d c:\games\skyrealms.cue -t cdrom

where d - virtual CD-ROM drive letter, c:\games\skyrealms.cue - real path (of course it will be different in each particular case) to cue sheet which describes CD data and audio tracks layout.

Install the game from virtual CD-ROM drive created by DosBox onto virtual hard disk drive (again created in DosBox with mount command), then try to run the game from the main game folder.

[neo_viral]

Zomg,works perfectly now !

Installed it,still didnt ask me for sound install or anything similar still so there goes that theory of mine that it was that causing the main problem but the internal dosbox command is indeed the key and it sees the image perfectly now with audio!

Off to play it properly now many thanks again GigaWatt

(my dosbox-fu was weak)