I''m Running Privateer in XP!

Thu Feb 19, 2004 11:35 pm by Chemus

Just thought that I'd share with anyone interested

Actually, I'm using a DOS emulator called DOSBox: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net

Reading the readme file is necessary, but I have some pointers. First, the directory selected as the 'root' should be one level below your privateer directory. The dosbox.conf file needs to be modified to get Privateer to work right. Set the line 'ems=true' to 'ems=false'. With the EMS disabled, Privateer runs fine on my PC. I get sound, and can use the joystick ok (it seems to have a really big deadzone to me). I recommend turning off as many other programs as you can manage; it runs more smoothly. With a 2.06 GHZ Athlon, I have it running at 7000 cycles with nary a hiccup. WARNING occasionally I have a crash back to windows, apparently during animations/cinematics. I have saved and loaded to a fare thee well, and it works fine. Save often.

Happy Flying -Chemus

Edited by - Chemus on 2/19/2004 11:39:34 PM

Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:22 am by Aod

firstly, "privateer"?
seccond, Welcome to TLR, you can now never leave

i'm Aod, in disguise

Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:38 am by gromit

congrats on the privateer thing...been meaning to try that myself

(by the way scarab's right, welcome to the hotel california

)

Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:25 am by Nickless V2

Welcome dude

Btw, They both stole that from me

Edit: Damn spelling.

- I'm not crazy, I'm a car. And if you don't believe me, you can get out and walk home. -
*** The Titan flies like a cow

***

Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:41 am by Wolf_Demon

jesus christ nickless, stop changing ur name

this is my world; it goes round and round and round
The wolfy types like a cow

Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:08 am by Indy11

Welcome Chemus.

Nice to see you're back on the OT Nick. SnS also's been infrequent of late so I guess you're not going be "dafted" so much now.

Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:08 am by ElectricBrain

cool! thx, gotta try that sometime. Never thought about using a DOS emu

Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:48 am by Chips

Excellent - now where can I get privateer nowadays? Any linkies for the internet challenged numb nuts here? (am lying, just to useless to find it myself!).

Also - i was in the gaming unknown (no comp for last 8 years or so) for around that time, so can play priv with no joystick

Edited by - Chips on 2/20/2004 10:51:34 AM

Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:01 am by gromit

I heard a rumour that its free nowadays...I'm sure it was in a thread about a month ago...could be wrong though...you know me, easily cafuffled

Fri Feb 20, 2004 12:46 pm by freighter fighter

jesus wolfy, learn to spell and be happy with one ( 1 ) sig

Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:47 pm by Esquilax

I have not had much success with DOSBox. I mean, even after using VDMSound and mouting the game folder, not all games work for me. It's not a bad program, but I'm waiting for a better alternative. "FreeDOS" is supposed to quite good though.

By the way, you can find DOSBox and VDMSound (sound card emulator) at SourceForge if you want it. I'd post a link, but I'm feelin' lazy.

Sat Feb 21, 2004 9:45 am by Sir Spectre

This is the second way I've seen to get Privateer to work in WinXp. I never tried the other, but as it uses 2 programs (one for DOS one for sound) I haven't been willing to try it, but this sounds neat. This along with the coming Privateer/Wing Commander total conversion mod this has been a good month for Privateer!

Sir Spectre

Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:27 pm by Tawakalna

There's a Privateer/WC total conversion mod? <faints>

<gets back up again> jeez it's like Christmas! i've really got to check out other forums, i didn't even know until sS posted that. Thx sS!

just time then to finish call of Duty and then get back to the real world... Wing Commander style, my Centurion, and the Kilrathi border in the Gemini Sector. If it's multiplayer then I aint never going to leave!

Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:56 pm by Sir Spectre

@Taw, no sooner than I just post good news, I have to report bad. One of the main modders of the Privateer mod has blown a battery in his laptop which took out his HD. He did have backups, so no worries there, but he's got some techical difficulties to deal with right now. He just posted that annoucement on the thread I linked.

Sir S

Sat Feb 21, 2004 3:07 pm by Esquilax

Slightly off-topic, but can anyone gove me some tips on how to get Wing Commander III to run through WinXP? Every time I start the game, it locks up before it even loads, and I have to ALT-TAB back to Windows and exit it manually. I have tried VDMS, DOSBox, the Crius.net forums, but nothing works. Any suggestions?

I also have a "Application Error.... Cannot read from Memory" Error when I try to fly in Privateer 2. The Cruis.net forums weren't much help their either. I used all of those fan-made patches and burnt a new CD but to no avail.

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