It is especially interesting to me that the thread suggests either a version difference, or possibly a difference between running the game in the environment of DOSBox versus an actual running of DOS, as causing some seeing the music resetting behavior in DOS Lemmings but not others.  Examining the game's programming should provide useful clues in further understanding those cases.

If it helps, I can attest to the fact that, at least in the demo, that's exactly what happened with DOS Lemmings, which I'd often play in Windows 3.x before discovering 95 and DOSBox.

"Encouraging the player not to give up" is an interesting spin on "punishing failure." It's kinda like doing a task at gunpoint (except with much lower stakes) - I'm not sure I'd exactly call the gun "encouraging" even if it does provide a major disincentive for giving up (failure by default).

I'd call that an exaggeration. This idea isn't like a gun, just something cosmetic. That is, the music doesn't affect the gameplay, the way that (say) being forced to start from a checkpoint in Super Mario just past a powerup does. You have the same advantages and disadvantages as before, you just can't go on to more music until you beat the level. Therefore, the more often you beat a level (esp. the first time), the more different kinds of music you hear, while hearing "Lemming 1" less often.

A question of my own, that I might ask, is that it was programmed that way by accident, how would that have come about? It seems more complicated to me than just tying music to levels, or the other DOS versions of starting with #1 and changing under the sole condition of victory. True, there's another version that might be so described (i.e. doesn't reset to Lemming 1 each time, like on the CD version), but it also increases the splat height from 63 to 66, making some levels a lot less fun, being a lot less challenging. (Like, um, Lemmingology. Well, heck, "Snow Dragon" seems to disagree with me, but still.) I'm all for not being to harsh with players, but I know I like a good challenge.

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Only 17 impossible 100%ers? Some of those results I'd need to see to believe.

The removal of "Inroducing SuperLemming" (Wicked 2 in DOS version) is also well-known, basically because WinLemm doesn't support the double-speed used for that one level.  Interesting that they removed a bunch of Tame levels as well, I guess it's not just us who are complaining about how lame that rating is.

It's possible that there are more than one version of WinLemm released that had slightly different sets of levels removed.  I can imagine for example that in an earlier release "All the 6s" are there, and then in a later release it was removed like in your copy, probably due to feedback from players (or more likely, their religiously conservative parents ).

I don't know about "religiously conservative". I thought it was the liberals who got bent out of shape over everything? And toppled statues to erase history. It's not like they put swastikas in the level or anything, I think.

Another reason I can think of (maybe) for getting rid of the last four Tames might be they were alone in their level pack in the DOS version, if that makes sense.

Where can I find some Lemmings maps for arbitrary platforms? No solutions, just maps.

Where can I find a working demo? Or does anyone have one?