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In article <b1nnm6$lcq$1...@gnamma.connect.com.au>, blah <bl...@blah.com> wrote:
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>"blah" <bl...@blah.com> wrote in message
>news:b1ndu6$h0n$1@gnamma.connect.com.au...
>> 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.

Try adding: "DRIVES=H" to your config.sys on the bootdisk (without the
quotes, of course). That should let you access higher drives.

Or are all your drives FAT-32?

One thing that also works - grab "FAKECD" and run that to make it think your
hard drive directory is really a CD. As I recall, that works quite well for
priv.

I have a working config somewhere. Let me know if you need it, and I'll dig
it up.

Mattias