Gold Rush! Help
Gold Rush!'s original requirements:
Note: This game can still be purchased new from The
Software Farm.
Audio Problems
Problem - Music only comes over PC Speaker:
You get the one MIDI voice beeping through the case speaker. This is not a bug, this is the way the games
were made. They did this when these games were new.
Solution 1:
Play the game in DOSBox. If you change dosbox.conf
to set "machine=tandy" instead of "machine=vga" there will be 3 voice PCjr/Tandy music
with a white noise channel. You can also get Tandy sound in Sierra's AGI games without having to emulate Tandy
video mode if you run "sierra.com" with a "-t" after it in the game's directory, i.e.:
sierra.com -t
Solution 2:
Use a patch by Anders Olsson, agi-mid05.zip (12
kb). You will hear all three MIDI voices through your sound card. (2K and XP users will also have to run the
games with
VDMSound to hear it.)
Solution 3 (preferred):
Run the games with one of the new third party AGI interpreters such as NAGI
or Sarien. With NAGI you'll hear all three MIDI
voices and even have limited mouse support within your AGI games.
Graphics Bugs
Problem - Garbled Text:
Some of the newer graphics cards might garble the text in these games and make it unreadable. This problem
will occur on Windows 95/98/ME as well.
Solution #1 (preferred):
Unzip this modified
Sarien interpreter into the game's folder and run "Gold Rush!.exe" to play the game.
Solution #2:
Run the games with a third party DOS emulator like DOSBox
or one of the new third party AGI interpreters such as NAGI
or Sarien. With NAGI you'll hear all three MIDI
voices and even have limited mouse support within your AGI games.
Game Specific Bugs
Problem - House Buyer Never Comes:
When Jarod puts the house up for sale, the buyer never comes. This is a symptom of the cracked version of
the game when the speed is turned all the way up. More on this can be found here.
Solution:
Turn the game speed down until the house is sold.
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