ZC 2.10 and 2.50 - No sound on Win98SE

[Edmond Dantes]

@Gleeok and @Mero - This comp has a Soundblaster 16. Old card, but its gotten a lot of good mileage (even very late Windows 98 games like Half-Life and Red Faction are fine with it)

Hard to believe that ZC is working fine on a Windows 7 laptop and not the comp it sounds like it was designed for.

[Tamamo]

Ah Good ole Soundblaster. I had a Soundblaster 16 almost 2 decades ago I think lol. Try running the DOS version as this use to be a DOS program.

Fun fact I had this same problem back when ZC got ported to windows. Had to stick with the dos version.

[Chris Miller]

This is a long shot, but try running agsetup.exe to configure the sound card for DOS. That ought to work in 98 as well.

Just unzip that into your 2.10 folder and run it.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/tl...i2/agsetup.zip

[Edmond Dantes]

I'm surprised it took me this long to think of this, but:

First: It's not the 90's update your fucking OS already. :p

Isn't that a little like saying "It's not 1987 anymore, you should be playing Skyward Sword"?

Anyway, I tried using the agsetup program. Also tried installing Direct X 9. Neither helped. So the only thing was using the DOS version of 2.10. That's not quite perfect either tho--particularly, I tried running the quest "The Longest Journey" and for some reason, when the quest starts up, a pair of tones play and then I can't make Link move... but I can call down the item menu. This doesn't happen with the built-in quest, and another quest by the same author (a remake of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link) has the same two-tones but after a second, Link can move, tho it seems like he gets momentarily paralyzed on each screen.

Doesn't happen when I play ZC 2.50 on my laptop, so it seems like I'm confined to doing so. That kinda sucks, but then this desktop has so many other games it can play that the laptop can't, I guess it balances out.

[Tamamo]

Quote Originally Posted by Mero View Post
First: It's not the 90's update your fucking OS already. :p
Isn't that a little like saying "It's not 1987 anymore, you should be playing Skyward Sword"?

That was a joke... I happen to like the 90s.
RUNNING IN THE 90S LOL!

Yes as I thought, it's your soundcard and your sol.

[Edmond Dantes]

That was a joke... I happen to like the 90s.

Me too, but not as much as the 80s.

Oh well, I guess ZC will be the killer app for my laptop, since otherwise I have no games for it I wouldn't rather play on a desktop.