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Privateer 1 again

#160579
From: blah
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:45
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I've finally got hold of the old PC and I am trying to get it to run
privateer.  I've determined that nothing seems to be using the memory block
from D000-DFFF and with the current boot disk there is 582K free base RAM.

1. If I boot into a DOS Win98 environment can it work?  Or do I have to try
to get it working using a DOS 6.22 boot disk?  I've sysed the hard drive
using a Win98 startup disk, and copied the tools and utilities from the
startup disk.  So the drive doesn't have a full install of Win98.

2. Is 582K enough base RAM?  I am getting an error message from privateer
when it tries to start which seems to indicate that it wants more base
memory.

Here's the Autoexec and config files I am using.

Rob

CONFIG.SYS:
=================
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\EMM386.EXE 8192 RAM I=D000-DFFF
FILES=30
BUFFERS=20
DOS=High,UMB
DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana
LASTDRIVE=Z

=================
AUTOEXEC.BAT:
=================
MSCDEX.EXE  /D:banana /L:D
path=c:\;c:\dos
cd privater
=================
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From: "blah" <bl...@blah.com>
Newsgroups: alt.games.wing-commander
Subject: Privateer 1 again
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:45:27 +1000
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