[Wine] need help installing "windows 95 Audio Compression Codecs"

[wouter215]

first: hi i'm wouter new to the forum, lon time linux user(still a noob), been using wine (for school issued software) for 2 years now in Ubuntu 64 bit(current Ubuntu 10.04 64bit wine-1.3.0(from the Ubuntu repo))

need help installing "windows 95 Audio Compression Codecs" for a school issued program named "the ultimate human body 2.0" for windows 95. (my school does not have a big it budget..)
according to the system specs on the cas the requirements are:

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A multimedia pc, with a pentium® processor with MMX tm technology,
16MB RAM, MPc-copatable quad-speed cd-rom drive and 16-bit sterio sound card, svga 640 x 480 65536 (16-bit) color display, 1MB Video ram, loudspeakers or headphones, and Microsoft® Windows® 95.


an minimum requrements windows®:

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os: Windows® 95
cpu: pentium® processor with MMX tm technology
ram 16MB
screen display 640 x 480 pixels 65536 (16-bit) colors
cd-rom speed quad-speed
audio 16-bit sterio sound card*
other 1MB Video ram, loudspeakers or headphones and 1MB video ram
*this product will not run without a sound card.




i've set wine to windows 95 and tried to run setup.exe from the cd, the install shield loader loads, than an error appears titled "SEVERE" with the text:
  
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 This product requires 'Audio Compression' drivers, that have NOT beed detected on this computer.
For more information, please refer to the 'Audio Problems' section of the Readme file on this disk
{OK}


i click ok and the program exits.

section 4.2 in the readme.wri file on the disk says:


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4.2 Sound Decompression Drivers

If you encounter the following error message regarding your
sound software, do not worry.

“The sound software is not installed properly or has been disabled. For more information see the README file installed
with this program. This title will now terminate.”

The instructions which follow will help you to resolve this
problem. 

1. From the Start Menu, select Settings, and then Control
Panel.

2. From the Control Panel, double-click on the Multimedia
icon. The Multimedia Properties dialog box should appear.

3. Click on the Advanced tab, then click on the ‘+’ sign to
the right of Audio Compression Codecs.

4. Double-click on the first Codec in the list. The Properties
dialog box for that Codec should appear.

5. Make sure that ‘Use this audio codec’ is selected. If it is
not, then you should click on the words ‘Use this audio
codec’ to select it. You MUST now click the Apply button.

6. Follow the above instructions for each audio codec in the
list.

7. Now reinstall Body.

8. Make sure you restart your computer before attempting
to run Body again.

If this did not solve your problem, or if no audio decompression drivers were listed, follow the instructions in section 4.2.2 to see if they solve your problem.

4.2.2 	Other Audio Decompression problems

The following problems may result from running Body without the correct sound decompression drivers:

- An error message concerning the sound decompression drivers
(ADPCM) when you try to run the program.
- Unintelligible sound output from Body.
- Speeded up sound in some parts of Body (but not in animations).


If you are running Windows 95, to overcome any of these
problems, you should:

1. From the 'Start' menu, choose 'Settings', then choose 'Control
Panel'.

2. Click the 'Add/Remove Programs' icon. The 'Add/Remove
Programs Properties' dialog box will appear.

3. Select the 'Windows Setup' tab.

4. Highlight the 'Multimedia' option in the list, then select the
'Details' button. The Multimedia dialog box will appear.

5. If the 'Audio Compression' box is not checked, you should do
this now. Click 'OK' and then follow the instructions that appear on the screen.

6. If the 'Audio Compression' box is checked, you should click to
deselect it first. Select 'OK', and then follow the instructions that appear on the screen. Finally, repeat the whole operation to re-check the 'Audio Compression' box. This ensures that the up-to-date drivers are actually installed by Windows 95, and it doesn't just 'think' they are.

If the above steps do not help, you should ensure that the Microsoft ADPCM driver is enabled. To do this:

1. From the 'Start' menu, choose 'Settings', then choose 'Control
Panel'.

2. Click the 'Multimedia' icon. The 'Multimedia Properties' dialog
will now appear.

3. Select the 'Advanced' tab.

4. Click the '+' symbol next to 'Audio compression codecs'.

5. Click on the Microsoft ADPCM codec, then click the properties button.

6. In the dialog box that appears, make sure that ‘Use this audio codec’ is selected.

If the above procedure does not solve your problem you may also
try the following steps to disable all CODECs listed which contain
the text 'ADPCM' (apart from the 'Microsoft ADPCM CODEC'):

1. From the 'Start' menu, choose 'Settings', then choose 'Control
Panel'.

2. Click the 'Multimedia' icon. The 'Multimedia Properties' dialog
box will now appear.

3. Select the 'Advanced' tab.

4. Select the CODEC you wish to disable, from the list.

5. Select the 'Properties' tab to display the dialog above to the
right.

6. Select 'Do not use this audio codec'.

7. Select 'OK'. Repeat the procedure for all other relevant
CODECs.

If this does not work, you should remove all MSACM.* files under DOS from the following directories:

WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSACM.*
WINDOWS\SYSBCKUP\MSACM.*

You should then re-install Windows 95.




does anyone know what i have to do in order to install and run this program?

(the appdb search turned up nothing, nor did google for me)