Using Amiga audio with the MS-DOS version of a game

Ben Paddon · Post by **Ben Paddon** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:12 pm

There are a few games, such as The Secret of Monkey Island and Simon the Sorcerer, where the Amiga version had better audio but the MS-DOS version had superior graphics. I'm wondering if there's any way to convince ScummVM to interpret the audio from the Amiga versions if it had the data files handy. Reminiscence, a cross-platform interpretor for the DOS version of Flashback: The Quest for Identity, is able to do this, for instance - emulating the MS-DOS version of the game but substituting the Amiga music.

How difficult would it be to implement such a feature?

clem · Post by **clem** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:19 pm

see also similar discussion on this topic.

Ben Paddon · Post by **Ben Paddon** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:22 pm

Ah, clever. Should've searched for it first.

Kirben · Post by **Kirben** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:16 am

For Monkey Island 1, you could buy the CD release, and use alternative music files.

For Simon the Sorcerer 1, why not buy the Amiga CD32 version? with music been the only difference, compared to the PC releases.

Ben Paddon · Post by **Ben Paddon** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:10 am

Kirben wrote:For Monkey Island 1, you could buy the CD release, and use alternative music files.

For Simon the Sorcerer 1, why not buy the Amiga CD32 version? with music been the only difference, compared to the PC releases.

I don't know how ScummVM handles the Amiga versions of Simon, but I know the framerate on the Amiga version is noticeably slower in places with a large amount of animation. That may have been a hardware thing, though.