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The scope of this post is not to set up a complete DOSBOX environment for the Lemmings games. However, if you want sound and your configuration isn't giving you any, read on.

Lemmings

For tandy sound... (sounds a bit like an 8-bit video game console)
Insert the following into your dosbox.conf
[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=22050
tandy=on
tandyrate=22050
[sblaster]
sbtype=none
[dosbox]
machine=tandy

Run TGALEMMI.EXE

For SoundBlaster sound... (best sound quality for this version of Lemmings)
Insert the following into your dosbox.conf
[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
[dosbox]
machine=vga

Run VGALEMMI.EXE

Lemmings 2: The Tribes

For tandy sound...
Insert the following into your dosbox.conf
[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=22050
tandy=on
tandyrate=22050
[sblaster]
sbtype=none
[dosbox]
machine=vga

Run INSTALL.EXE and set the sound to Tandy
Run L2-FIX.COM

For SoundBlaster sound...
Insert the following into your dosbox.conf
[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
[dosbox]
machine=vga

Run INSTALL.EXE and set the sound to AdLib or SoundBlaster
Run L2-FIX.COM

For Roland sound...
Insert the following into your dosbox.conf
[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
device=win32 (change to alsa for linux, change to coreaudio for Mac OS X)
[dosbox]
machine=vga

Run INSTALL.EXE and set the sound to Roland
Run L2-FIX.COM

For Roland sound with SoundBlaster effects...
Insert the following into your dosbox.conf
[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
device=win32 (change to alsa for linux, change to coreaudio for Mac OS X)
[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
[dosbox]
machine=vga

Run INSTALL.EXE and set the sound to Roland with Blaster Effects
Run L2-FIX.COM

All New World of Lemmings

For SoundBlaster sound...
Insert the following into your dosbox.conf
[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
[dosbox]
machine=vga

Run INSTALL.EXE and set the sound to AdLib or SoundBlaster
Run L3CD.EXE

For Gravis UltraSound sound... (best sound quality for this version of All New World of Lemmings)
Insert the following into your dosbox.conf
[gus]
gus=true
[dosbox]
machine=vga

Run INSTALL.EXE and set the sound to Gravis UltraSound
Run L3CDGUS.EXE

Looks like a helpful guide!  I'd never known how to have a look at the Tandy version of Lemmings 1, so that's neat.

Something to note: If you're trying to run Lemmings 1 and can only get "FX" lower your CPU cycles in DOSBox below around 3000.  For some reason that makes it work.  I believe you can turn it back up after the game has started.

Just to mention that you can get Tandy music and sound without using the graphics of the Tandy machine. You simply have to set :

[speaker]
tandy=on

[sblaster]
oplmode=none

And there you go!

Just to mention that you can get Tandy music and sound without using the graphics of the Tandy machine. You simply have to set :

[speaker]
tandy=on

[sblaster]
oplmode=none

And there you go!

Um, that doesn't seem to work for Lemmings, at least my copy of it.  It does work on ONML however.

Yup, sorry, I didn't specified much. It only works for Oh no! More Lemmings and all Holiday Lemmings. I guess this is because those versions have less music (3 and 6) than the original Lemmings game (21).

It works for getting Holiday Lemmings and ONML!  It's not the graphics I mind, anyways.   It's the not having TGA sound.