Hi everyone!
First of all sorry for the lame title. Not really inspired today.
The purpose of this thread is to document, gather info, and find volunteers to patch games to force 3 voice sound + CGA/EGA/VGA on a non Tandy/PCjr machine. This of course to use with a Tandy compatible sound adapter on your regular IBM PC/XT/AT.
So far, with Scali, Trixter and Plasma's assistance, i already patched 9 games. 6 text/graphics adventures from Telarium and also 3 games from Windham Classics including Below The Root, both DC and Booter patched. Those games already have a repo at ftp.oldskool.org which Trixter kindly made available for this purpose.
Scali also patched Skate or Die for CGA + 3 voice sound.
Unfortunately, for me and this project, my 8088 assembly knowledge is rather limited so no doubt this is in need of volunteer to patch some more games.
Some games that need to be patched (warning list is very much incomplete):
Any volunteers to help with these?
Some games are harder than others. I think AGI games only need CGA + 3 voice sound patch, since forcing EGA + Tandy via the command line arguments does indeed result in EGA graphics + 3 voice sound. However forcing CGA + 3 voice sound always defaults to Tandy graphics as well.
Arkanoid might be an impossible mission, since it has a separate executable for Tandy/CGA/EGA and the CGA/EGA .exe files might not have the code routines for the 3 voice sound.
Gunship and Pirates! already have a patch for the Innovation SSI 2001, which is derived from "The Entertainer" sound board, a supposed Microprose project that never came out commercially. Microprose games seem to be possible to patch, i haven't figured out yet though.
There are much more games than can be added to the list, feel free to give your input.
First of all sorry for the lame title. Not really inspired today.
The purpose of this thread is to document, gather info, and find volunteers to patch games to force 3 voice sound + CGA/EGA/VGA on a non Tandy/PCjr machine. This of course to use with a Tandy compatible sound adapter on your regular IBM PC/XT/AT.
So far, with Scali, Trixter and Plasma's assistance, i already patched 9 games. 6 text/graphics adventures from Telarium and also 3 games from Windham Classics including Below The Root, both DC and Booter patched. Those games already have a repo at ftp.oldskool.org which Trixter kindly made available for this purpose.
Scali also patched Skate or Die for CGA + 3 voice sound.
Unfortunately, for me and this project, my 8088 assembly knowledge is rather limited so no doubt this is in need of volunteer to patch some more games.
Some games that need to be patched (warning list is very much incomplete):
Code:
SIERRA:
All AGI adventures
Thexder
TAITO:
Arkanoid
MICROPROSE:
Gunship
Pirates!
Airborne Ranger
BOOTERS:
Tapper (both RGB and composite versions)
Any volunteers to help with these?
Some games are harder than others. I think AGI games only need CGA + 3 voice sound patch, since forcing EGA + Tandy via the command line arguments does indeed result in EGA graphics + 3 voice sound. However forcing CGA + 3 voice sound always defaults to Tandy graphics as well.
Arkanoid might be an impossible mission, since it has a separate executable for Tandy/CGA/EGA and the CGA/EGA .exe files might not have the code routines for the 3 voice sound.
Gunship and Pirates! already have a patch for the Innovation SSI 2001, which is derived from "The Entertainer" sound board, a supposed Microprose project that never came out commercially. Microprose games seem to be possible to patch, i haven't figured out yet though.
There are much more games than can be added to the list, feel free to give your input.