🚀 go-pugleaf

Privateer, Strike Commander, WC1&2, all use a protected memory mode that 
cannot be emulated by win98se.  So your solution to use a boot disk with 
Dos 6.22 is the way to go.

Is your D drive a Primary or Logical partition?  

Don't try playing with codepages, memory ranges, and driver jockying 
trying to get the needed dos ram.  Search the web for QEMM 97, you can 
download the whole thing.  Qemm is an old memory manager that even with 
all types of DOS drivers loaded will still give you over 600k free.  It 
was a must-have in the dos days.

Also note that if your Sound Card is PCI, then it won't work under DOS, 
nor its game port.

The best bet is to do what I just did.  I was spending days working on 
configurations to get these dos games to run, just to have them play way 
too fast on my P4 system. (Privateer-2 even played too fast on an old p2-
300 laptop).  You can buy a complete P200mmx system for about $30 from 
ebay.  Set this pc up for dual boot with DOS and Windows98se.  It will 
play all these dos programs fine, and all the older WC series windows 
games (kilrathi saga, Privateer 2, WC 4....).  I can use my older CH 
gameport gear for the DOS sessions, and my TM Cougar for the win98se 
sessions.  Much better option for my sanity :)



"blah" <bl...@blah.com> wrote in 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.  Does
> anyone have any config.sys files and autoexec.bat files they've used
> successfully to get Privateer to run?
> 
> Rob
> 
>