Sorry, forgot to mention that. Yes, I performed the sound driver installation from the awe32 CD and the environment is configured. Other games that rely on the BLASTER env var recognize it and work correctly. This the only game I've tried so far that fails to init. Also tried reconfiguring the card ...

PCem v14, Award 430VX PCI, Pentium 75, S3 ViRGE/DX, SB AWE32, MS-DOS 6.22 If "Sound Blaster" is selected in 3D Lemmings setup, either as the music or sound effects device, the corresponding driver will fail to initialize upon game launch. This occurs in the above system configuration, but ...