Well, Personally, I have had very little success with FT2 and VDMSound. Some people have reported that this works, but I haven't seen it. Please PM an admin with your settings if you have succeeded with this. The method I used to run FT2 In Windows 2000 (should work for XP, Linux or OSX as well) is by using DosBox.
First step, is to download and install dosbox on your system. it can be found at:
http://dosbox.sf.netThe next step is to run Dosbox. Dosbox creates it's own virtual filesystem. This is so you can emulate Dos on Non-Windows systems. When you load Dosbox, you will be placed on drive z:. This is the Dosbox utility drive. if you get this far, then you've successfully installed dosbox.
Next, you need to mount your files. This basically means you are selecting where the virtual filesystem should point to. I suggest mounting only your FT2 directory tree. This will prevent you from messing with any other files, that Your true Operating System might need. The way the mount command works is as follows:
mount < dosbox drive letter > < Directory to map to drive letter >
Thus, the command (For windows systems):
mount c e:\trackers\ft2
will make C: (in Dosbox) point to e:\trackers\ft2
Note that, if you installed Dosbox on anything other than Windows, you will need to use your own operating system's directory structure for the second parameter. In Linux, you'd use forward slashes instead of backslashes, etc.
from here on in, it's like you are in DOS... Switch to drive C using the good old MS-DOS syntax, and load FT2... It's that easy.
Please note, that there WILL be a LOT of latency with Dosbox. It is essentially emulating a full PC running some form of DOS. If you want to mess around in the config files, you can turn off options you don't need (Modem, or various different sound cards for example)...
Now you should tune your emulated CPU. If you hit Ctrl-F11 you will slow down your emulated CPU. Hitting Ctrl-F12 will speed it up. Finding a good emulated CPU speed should reduce some of the latency... There are instances where slowing down Dosbox cycles will INCREASE performance. This is because if Dosbox is trying to emulate too fast a system, it will overload your real CPU. However, if you're only emulating a 12Mhz system (1200 cycles) Your emulated system won't be able to keep up with FastTracker. You must find a good balance. 10000 cycles runs well on my Athlon XP 2500+ with Win2k, but I could probably increase my cycles some more.
