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Gobliiins Updates/Patches

Gobliiins CD's original requirements:

MS-DOS 5.0 or greater
386/16 or better
2x CD-ROM
2 MB RAM
3.5 MB Hard drive space
VGA
Soundcard with DAC, CD Audio
Mouse

Game Specific Bugs
- Cut scene Lockups
- No sound with VDMSound

Extras
- Gobliiins Manual (PDF file) [3.21 MB]
- Gobliiins Install Guide (PDF file) [224 KB]
- Gobliiins Quick Reference Troubleshooting (PDF file) [24.8 KB]
- Gobliiins UHS File (ZIP file) [11.7 KB]
- Gobliiins Walkthrough
- Gobliiins Playable Gobliiins Demo (ZIP file) [837 KB]
- SHP Gobliiins Series Help Forum
- Find it on eBay
- Google
- Buy it on

Game Specific Bugs

In addition to compatibility problems on modern Windows, Woodruff is a 16 bit program. As such it will not run on 64 bit versions of Windows. Now that this game is supported by ScummVM, all of these issues have been fixed. It will also allow the game to run on other platforms, such as Linux or Mac OSX. For Windows, just use the New Gobliins ScummVM Installer

Note: The following is now dated information. The Gobliiins games can now be played with ScummVM and is by far the prefered way. VDMS is no longer recommended.

Problem - Cut scene Lockups:
The problem with the Coktel Vision CD games is that the audio is on a Redbook CD audio track and the timing at several point in the games is based on this track. XP's emulation of the old DOS driver (MSCDEX) is imperfect, so the games can lock up.

Solution #1 (preferred):
The current CVS of DOSBox can now handle the Coktel Vision CD games and these solutions are no longer necessary. By playing your game in DOSBox, you can avoid this problem.

Solution #2:
Use VDMSound. Gobliiins works with VDMSound if you use SAPUCDEX instead of selecting "Enable low-level CD-ROM support" in Lanchpad.

Right click on the VDMS shortcut (.vlp) to the game.

Click the "Advanced..." button.

VDMS

Go to the "DOS Environment" tab.

In the "AUTOEXEC.BAT" section, be sure that the "Additional options:" box is checked and add SAPUCDEX in the box below it.

VDMS2

Problem - No sound in Gobliiins with VDMSound:
You get no sound in Gobliiins 1 when you run it with VDMSound (floppy.)

Solution #1:
Use the EmuPPDAC module and SPEEDSET. Note, however, that on faster machines Gobliiins 1 may stop working altogether (error -7, division by 0).

Solution #2 (preferred):
Use DOSBox, it will load Gobliiins just fine,

Solution #3:
A last resort would be to try to find the (according to some, superior) Amiga version and play it on an Amiga (or an Amiga emulator.)

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