Problems with Tyrian + Jazz Jackrabbit under DOS

Tamale · Post by **Tamale** » Tue May 18, 2004 7:00 am

I'm trying to run tyrian 2000 on my new centrino 1.4ghz laptop.. think this is gonna be possible?

problems i'm getting are that in straight-up xp running mode there is no sound, and the game is running at what seems to be about 80% normal speed (i.e. music chops a little bit, game studders.. playable, just annoying)

so i tried dosbox to some very interesting results.. i actually got sound and music but the SPEED was wildly unpredictable.. sometimes it ran TOO fast but most of the time it would run waaaaaaayyy too slow...

would it be worth my time to set up a second partition with just pure dos on it or is there something i can do to just get sound running it in normal xp? (which is, for the most part still playable)

thanks

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Sat May 22, 2004 11:53 am

Someone con help me??
I like to patch tiryan but i can.
I dosnt understan what is telling me the program because is in other language that i dosnt understan?
What can i do?

Tamale · Post by **Tamale** » Tue May 25, 2004 7:32 pm

bump? :]

Bob Smith · Post by **Bob Smith** » Wed May 26, 2004 9:28 am

Tamale wrote:I'm trying to run tyrian 2000 on my new centrino 1.4ghz laptop.. think this is gonna be possible?

problems i'm getting are that in straight-up xp running mode there is no sound, and the game is running at what seems to be about 80% normal speed (i.e. music chops a little bit, game studders.. playable, just annoying)

so i tried dosbox to some very interesting results.. i actually got sound and music but the SPEED was wildly unpredictable.. sometimes it ran TOO fast but most of the time it would run waaaaaaayyy too slow...

would it be worth my time to set up a second partition with just pure dos on it or is there something i can do to just get sound running it in normal xp? (which is, for the most part still playable)

thanks

Think I've got a problem similar to you...

Tyrian 2000 runs fine (surprisingly) straight from XP - but no sound or music.

Running it with VDMS enables music - but sound only works in the setup prog - but the whole game slows right down, between 25% and 75% speed all the time (slows the music down with it).

Tried most things I could think of - anybody have any suggestions? Dosbox doesn't do anything with t2k as I think it was designed to run in windows anyway???

Having to play this game mute does not do it justice. TPPatch also refuses to run the game (gives me some error, but I'm not familiar with the language). Don't think I need it anyways.

So it's just sound I need help with.

This game rules.

Cheers.

Bob

tamale · Post by **tamale** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:46 pm

anyone have tyrian 2k working fine in xp yet?

bob and i will love you long time

p.s. can you still do the trick where you bring weapons from arcade mode into a full game in tyrian2k or was that only in the original?

Post by **Wally** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:48 pm

thats it.. Im working on it

Bob Smith · Post by **Bob Smith** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:20 pm

You will have our love forever, lol, :p

Cheers

Post by **Wally** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:58 pm

well i need to contact the author 1st. Unless you can supply me with a copy of the URL in an email ([email protected]

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:09 pm

Anonymous wrote:anyone have tyrian 2k working fine in xp yet?

bob and i will love you long time

p.s. can you still do the trick where you bring weapons from arcade mode into a full game in tyrian2k or was that only in the original?

Shinlong · Post by **Shinlong** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:26 am

How do you run T2K from XP. mine wants to run in a DOS box. HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kazen · Post by **Kazen** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 3:59 am

Where i can download Jazz 2!!??

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:37 am

When you run old DOS games you should run them in DOS. So not windows XP, not 2000 or 98SE not even DOS 7. Use the highest legaecy DOS. Dos 6.22. You can download the Boot floppies anywhere.

You should have no problems once the BLASTER variables are set (as mentioned earlier). You might have a prblem with conventional memory the 640K but that can be fixed by adding DOS=high,UMB to you CONFIG.SYS. if that doesn't do the trick download QEMM wich is THE best memory manager for DOS.

I Hope this helped the people with dos games problems...

Koos

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:39 am

P.S. You probely should download the DOS basic drivers and PnP configuration utility from Creative to help you install your sound card under dos (provided you have a soundblaster compatible sound card).

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:15 am

for windows there is tyrian 2000 you don't need a patch

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 12:25 am

NIK282000 wrote:I got it to run using a diffrent patch but there is no audio, (other patch at http://www.kennedysoftware.ie/patchcrt.htm ) the error code was "Runtime error 200 at 0006:374C." the other patch seemed to fix that error but there is no audio at all. When running the setup i got the "unable to play sound FX" error but thats nothing new its strange that there is no music. No errors either.

P.s (i will be registering to this forum soon)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:47 pm

where can I download jazz

Post by **Wally** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:31 pm

wow finally someone who wants somthing else. Its avaliable from www.dosgames.com

Azure · Post by **Azure** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:34 pm

Okay, I've got Tyrian running now with sound (No sound effects, none of the options in the setup.exe work), but now the problem is that the game is running too slow. I have an Athlon XP 3000+, just in case you're wondering. How can I make the game run at normal speed (I already tried setting the compatibility when you right click and go to properties)? Thanks.

Post by **Wally** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 9:59 pm

but did you try what was mentioned in the previous posts?

click page one and read from there

Cheers

Azure · Post by **Azure** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 1:08 am

Wally*Won_Kenobie wrote:but did you try what was mentioned in the previous posts?

click page one and read from there

Cheers

I already read it from page one and I get stuck where everybody else gets stuck - The game boots up fine with sound, it just doesn't run at the right speed (Most of the time too slow).