No, not really, the whole thing is worthless.

The dosbox shortcut expects dosbox to be in C:\DOS\DOSBox-0.74\ , by now you should know that dosbox needs to be in \program files\ or \program files(x86)\ to work correctly on a modern OS, and the user (game) files in \user\your name\folder\

More: a worthless method because when dosbox will update to 0.75 or whatever that dosbox shortcut won't work even on an older OS with an updated dosbox.

It's a basicly wrong method, nothing you say can change that fact.

thanks very much - that worked a treat. I've managed to start the game and save it so it looks good.

loving the pitchforks :-)

You're welcome. :)

And because you seem to like the angry crowd .... :lynch:

What a nice game.
 

I sincery envy the first time gamers.
I will never forget my struggle with one-leg pirate..
Xa xa
:smile2:
My hearth trembling as in my first love meeting..
Mama mia...
:OK:

CD MUSIC!!!
 

Quite an old quote, but I had to do it! :D I'm using D-Fend Reloaded myself and it is a quite easy to use frontend for DosBox! http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net

I figured out how to get the CD music to work from the primary download. The only "bad" thing is the "waste of disc space". Shouldn't be a problem on todays systems... ;)

The size of the game increases to around 327MB.

In D-Fend Reloaded you got a VrtualHD folder. I copied the game to
.\VirtualHD\GAMES\ALONITD1\
This means, that I had to edit the "INDARK2.CFG" with notepad and put the path "\GAMES\ALONITD1" into it.
I copied the \CD folder into the \ALONITD1 folder. Now here comes the trick:

I converted the .MP3s located in the \music folder to .WAV files and copied them into the \CD folder overwriting everything! To convert the files to .WAV you can use the "Disk Writer" plugin in WinAMP or the "WAV Writer" in the output setting of XM-Play. It's just that easy!
After all that I configured the game in D-Fend and mounted the .CUE file as as drive D:. Started the game and it works with the "high quality"-CD-Music! YAAAY! :D

PS: I've read the first 12 pages of this thread and nobody mentioned this. Sorry, if it was already known to do it! ;)

If I could have found a really small mp3 to wav converter, I would have included it in the archive. You are right, though. If you convert the mp3 files back to wav and overwrite the dummy wav files in the game directory you will have a fully functioning game with voice-overs and the CD music.

Does anyone know of a free command-line file conversion utility that can do an mp3 to wav conversion?

Don't you need the original cue for this to work?In the supplied one time and frame indicators are all 00:00:00.

Also when I do the above method, only the first song plays in the first half of the intro, after that there is no music.

You might be right. When I replaced the tracks I might have not updated the cue file since the tracks are dummy files anyway and it didn't matter.

So Is it possible to get a cue file with the right timings?