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From: blah
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 06:45

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"blah" <bl...@blah.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to get Privateer to work (again) under Win98SE.  I've made a
boot
> disk and a FAT16 drive D, and installed the game to the FAT16 drive.  The
> boot disk fails because EMM386 doesn't like the code page option
specified.
> I used the one from the help file on the CD.

FWIW the exact error message from EMM386 is "Unable to set page frame base
address.  EMS unavailable."

Microsoft suggest using MSD to find out what is occupying memory - which is
fine if you are running a full install of DOS but useless in Win98SE where
MSD doesn't exist in the DOS shell.

I tried a DOS 6.22 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com but ended up at a DOS
prompt that listed any drive higher than B as invalid.

PRIV.EXE refuses to run without EMS.

Rob

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Subject: Re: Privateer
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