old game

...so? I don't see a problem.

Holy sh*t!! Warlords 2 is still around?? This is the game that messed up my college years all those.. uh.. years ago (along with CM). This game is a true legend! I have all the later versions (except the realtime one, I couldn't even begin to countenance such a thing!) and they all suck. Warlords 2 forever!!

Warlords II, this has always been one of my favorites. Man, we spent countless nights on hot-seat battles with this game :)

There was a new version, Warlords II Deluxe, which featured improved graphics (256-color), a level- and campaign editor, as well as lots of new tilesets and maps.
However, the music was not as good as the original music. Too "soft".
Anyone knows if there's a wy to combine the good graphics of Warlords II Deluxe with the great adlib (XMidi-) music from the "normal" version?

That would be the perfect Warlords II experience IMHO...

"Farewell warlord, we *shall* meet again" :)

--Darkstar

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dark-Star @ Apr 18 2007, 11:34 AM) [snapback]287327[/snapback]</div>Hello Dark Star - I am running Warlords II on Windows XP via the magic of DOS - the game runs perfect EXCEPT I don't get the wonderful music you are talking about. Do you know how to make this work? I do get the speach and sound effects which are very cool, and I am waiting to get blown away by the music!

Are you using DosBox to run the game? Is the game's sound setup configured correctly?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ Jun 22 2007, 02:52 PM) [snapback]295781[/snapback]</div>I'm just using the regular way to access DOS in XP. Should I be using DosBox?

My SOUND.BAT has this line:
SB16.COM SB16.ADV 1
which I set via INSTALL.EXE

I wasn't sure which option to select to match my laptop which is a SONY VAIO PCG-TR3

P.S. I am running Warlords 1.02 - should I upgrade via a patch to a later version? I don't want to break the game!

I've now upgraded to version 1.11 and changed the settings to: SB16.COM SC32MPU.ADV 1 by choosing Roland Sound Canvas in INSTALL.EXE.

The music is great!!! Are there just two songs? I heard one in setup and one in gameplay.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Richard @ Jun 22 2007, 04:27 PM) [snapback]295786[/snapback]</div>Either that or VDMSound (which might be a better in the circumstances). Windows XP' emulation of DOS leaves a lot to be desired - and problems with sound or music (or, more often, both) are not uncommon.

Configure the game to use Sound Blaster 16, IRQ 7, DMA 1, Adress 220. Those are the default values for sound emulation both in DOSBox and VDMSound.