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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon mihaip

Minotaur has no sound

Open Iritscen opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Minotaur: Labyrinths of Crete is one of Bungie's first games. When I upload a copy to system7.app, I have no sound at all within the game. However if I play it in the latest released desktop build of BII that's found in the Emaculation build thread, described as "SDL2 port, 30 November 2022, universal (x86_64 and arm64) from github.com/kanjitalk755/macemu source", it does have sound.

Quick instructions for testing the game:

  1. Open any copy of the Minotaur app (the seven applications are for use by each player on the network).
  2. Choose File > New to create a player character. Enter any combination of attribute points, e.g. 30, 20, 10, to use up all available points. After creating the player, you can save the character with File > Save so you don't have to do this on each launch of Minotaur.
  3. Choose Minotaur > One Player Exploration. A loud chime should play when the game begins. Any time you bump into a wall with the arrow keys there should be an "oof" sound. These are the two simplest ways to confirm that the game has sound.
  4. To stop the game, yell "quit" ('y' is the yell key, aka the chat/console key).

Iritscen avatar Feb 15 '23 16:02 Iritscen

I can reproduce this issue. Sound works in this game under the Basilisk II build for Windows (v2.5) but it does not work in both James Friend's (2017) and Mihai's (2023) WASM BasiliskII.js builds. I also cannot get sound in MinivMacII.js WASM build either (not that it would be useful, since there is no networking in it, but it still doesn't play sound in this game either)

that-ben avatar Feb 17 '23 13:02 that-ben

Wanted to add some details now that we are on infinitemac.org and have many versions of Mac OS available to us. Minotaur does have sound in System 7.1, but does not in System 7.5. In both cases, the emulator was set to emulate a Quadra 650. It also has sound in System 6.0.8 and 7.0.

For the record, I'm not sure if Minotaur (©1992, contemporary with System 7.1) even had sound in hardware on Macs that ran 7.5. And I have not tried emulating 7.1 and 7.5 with other emulators such as desktop Basilisk II to see what happens with Minotaur's sound.

Iritscen avatar Jun 03 '23 14:06 Iritscen

To answer your question, Minotaur does output sound on:

  1. my real Macintosh IIci under System 7.5
  2. Basilisk II v2.5 for Windows under System 7.5.3 w/ the Quadra 650 ROM

that-ben avatar Jun 03 '23 16:06 that-ben