Dark Castle has no sound

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LisaXL
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Dark Castle has no sound

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Hi, I am trying to run Dark Castle on the Basilisk with Quadra 650 ROM and Mac IIc emulatiin. The system version is 8.1. But it has no sound. Beyond Dark Castle has no sound either. But System, Lemmings, and Glider Pro all have sound. Any solutions? Thanks.
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Re: Dark Castle has no sound

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Try it on Mini vMac?

Dark Castle was the first game ever to use digitized sounds. It did this by timing writes to the audio buffer to the Mac Plus screen refresh, using the video refresh as the clock for the audio.

As a result, emulating it (and BDC) is a bit tricky. The best solution is to boot right off the DC or BDC boot disk so that the toolbox is set up as it expects it to be, and for the screen to be set to 512x384.

On newer hardware (like a Quadra) or larger/color screens, things can just not work.
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