
While improving musical fidelity, GeneralMIDI will make various dungeon tracks sound 'awkward' due to the new instrument sounds. MUSIC: General Midi or MPU-401 - I0:330 IRQ:2 DMA:1.

SOUND: Sound Blaster or SB16 (or compatible) - I0:220 IRQ:7 DMA:1.For increased musical quality, the Soundcard settings must match these: This provides faithful, but worse musical-quality. When installing the game under DOSBox, the guide provided by Bethesda recommends SoundBlaster 16 for the music and sound emulation. Changing the core= command to 'dynamic' will allow the game to run at a higher framerate when using high detail settings, as opposed to 'auto.' Enhanced Music Changing the cycles= command to 'fixed 20000' will force the game to play as it should on release, but will become unplayable on higher detail levels due to slowdown. Changing the cycles= command to max will force DOSBox to emulate the game at a higher framerate with high detail settings, but animations will be sped up, making NPCs very hard to talk to, as they move too fast. Changing scaler= to 'normal3x' will emulate the game in windowed mode at twice the resolution, staying faithful to the original's size. If output= isn't changed from surface and the aspect= command is turned to true, the game will become unplayable. Change output=surface to output=opengl or output=ddraw (Windows).Change cycles=auto to cycles=max or (OPTIONAL) cycles=fixed 20000.Change fullresolution=original to fullresolution=desktop.(OPTIONAL) Change scaler=normal2x to scaler=normal3x.Run in DOSBox To play Arena properly under DOSBox, make the following changes to the DOSBox configuration file ): The CD version and the freeware floppy version are already fully patched. Patch 1.06 is the latest patch for the retail floppy version.
