Old game #2: Syndicate

The Syndicate series is a series of isometric science fiction computer games created by Bullfrog Productions. The original game was released in 1993, and its expansion, American Revolt, in 1994.



We are lucky enough with this game. If you download latest dosbox (version 0.72 at the time of this writing), Syndicate will run almost perfectly by just launching the game file (synd.bat). Why I did just write "almost"? Because, the sound will not be working at all.

The issue with the sound is that Dosbox will use a sound configuration that is different from the one that is required by the game. If you look at the contents of the file "synd.bat", you'll see that this file just invokes the main game executable providing it the sound data that has to be used. Which is wrong. In order to solve this, let's just creane a file synd_full.bat, with this content:

main.exe >nul: /iirq7 /idma1 /iio$220 /c0

Now just invoke the synd_full.bat file within dosbox and let the fun begin!



PS: There exist a full website dedicated to running Syndicate within Dosbox, please check it out for deeper troubleshooting here!