Sound not working on "The Lurking Horror"

[barney]

Has anybody played the lurking horror from Infocom.  I remember playing about 15 years ago and it had awesome sound effects.  I copied the ADF file to a disk but I can't get the sound to work.  Does anybody know why this is?  This isn't a hardware problem because sound works on all of my other games.  Thank you.

Barney

[barney]

I tried my Amiga 2000 w/KS 1.3 and workbench 1.3 but no luck.  I remember this worked fine for my Amiga 1000 with KS 1.1 and 1.2 just fine.  This sucks.  I remember that the sound effects made this game scary as hell.

Barney

[barney]

I hear ya.  LUckily I have a 3 way selectable kickstart.  I can select 1.3, 2.0 and 3.1.  I love the full screen also, it does rock.  Text adventures were always more fun on Commodore computers.  Completely blow PC's away.  If anybody can figure it out, let me know.

Barney

[barney]

I have a question.  Could it be that the Amiga does not know how to play the sound file?  Is there somthing in the C: or S: folder that needs to be configured?  Maybe this could fix this problem.

Barney

[barney]

You might be right about a midi player.  The funny thing is that I played this on my Kickstart 1.1 A1000 with nothing but basic workbench.  I have no idea why it would need any additional programs.  Do you have a midi player?  If you do, install it and see what happens.  I imagine that we have to direct these particular files to be played using the midi player installed.  

Barney

[barney]

I noticed that various other sound files on my hard drive, if I right click and click "information", it asks me what program to play sound through.  I am betting that we could also do the same with these Midi sounds.  Maybe I will check aminet.net and see if there is a small application that invisibly plays these files.

Barney

[barney]

Check out this site:
http://www.thegamearchives.com/?val=0_2_1_0_0_4_17_0_12_8_0

This has three different versions of Lurking Horror.  I am going to try all three.  Maybe one of these versions will work.

Barney

[barney]

This is very interresting.  I was able to play the sound finles ex: s16.dat using a "Audiomaster".  I think that somthing was changed or dropped when the game was converted to an ADF file.  I remember back it in the day it would work flawlessly.  No tweaking/hacking or anything was required.  It was as simple and automatic as getting sound from any other Amiga game.  Oh well.  Maybe I will go through my old Amiga disks.  Maybe I still have it on an unlabled disk.  If I find the solution, I will let everybody know.

Barney

[barney]

I noticed on the disk that there are 16 sound files.  These sound files pop up at specific parts of the game.  Maybe they don't occur until later in the game.  From what I remember, there were a few sounds early on, but maybe I am mistaken.  I will keep playing and let you know if I hear anything.

Barney

[barney]

Well, I obtained an original copy of this program and still no sound.  I don't understand why the sound won't work.  The only other possibility is that it's only compatible on an OCS system.  

Just an idea; I noticed that the sound file end with .mid.  I take it that this means "midi" files.  Do I need a midi player for these sounds to work?  I remember with the Amiga 1000, I was just using the regular old kickstart 1.2 and workbench 1.2.  

Barney