Trying to Run Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (1996) on windows 7 home edition

[strollin]

A VM emulates, in software, very common hardware for video, sound, networking, etc... to the point that the drivers are part of the OS such as Win 95. I have VMs of DOS, Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, WinXP as well as quite a few different Linux distros all running on my Win 7 machine. You don't need drivers for the actual hardware in your machine in a VM so if the guy actually told you that he was wrong.

 

[Imissthe90s]

A VM emulates, in software, very common hardware for video, sound, networking, etc... to the point that the drivers are part of the OS such as Win 95. I have VMs of DOS, Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, WinXP as well as quite a few different Linux distros all running on my Win 7 machine. You don't need drivers for the actual hardware in your machine in a VM so if the guy actually told you that he was wrong.

So explain to me what I need to do again. The part that confused me was "fdisk" are you referring to a flash drive or a section of the HDD?

Oh and its Oracle VM Virtual Box, not Microsoft Virtual PC.
I am using an Acer Apsire 5253 series laptop. Is DOS the same as BIOS?

 

[John Buchanan]

I am currently playing the 1991 MS-DOS Version of Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego both in Oracle VirtualBox and in DOSBox. I prefer to play using XP running in VirtualBox because of the very nice GUI and smooth operation, but I cannot get any sound.
I do get sound in DOSBox (using the attached configuration file), but the operation is jagged and hangs up for 20 seconds between missions. I also get a fluttering prompt before switching to full screen (Alt + Enter).
Can anyone get this version of Carmen to play with sound in VirtualBox?

 

[Cromewell]

Does other sound work? i.e. do you have a virtual sound card added?

 

[strollin]

I tried and I wasn't able to get sound working in VirtualBox either. Not sure what you tried but I tried all 3 soundcard options in VB, none worked. However, I was able to get sound to work using VMWare Workstation Player. http://www.vmware.com/products/player/playerpro-evaluation.html

Sound worked there without any fiddling.

 

[John Buchanan]

Does other sound work? i.e. do you have a virtual sound card added?

Yes, the XP startup sound works, as does sound for several of the more recent Carmen games, eg., Where in America's Past, Where in Space and Where in the USA Deluxe.