Help Needed with Priv1

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RedRugger

Spaceman
All right,a long time ago I bought Wing Commander: Privateer and tried to play it with no luck. Now,some 8 odd years later, I am really trying to get this thing working. At first, it told me I had insufficent DOS memory. I promptly made a boot disk, filled it with the nessesary info and tried again. This time I get the message
Privater CD not found Jemm unloaded

(Jemm is most likely refering to Jemm.ovl, some sort of system file that is part of the installed files)
I have tried everything from completly changing the boot disk to installing it in different drives to opening and closing the CD-ROM tray. Every time its the same thing. My computer is a Win95 233 Pentium,Sb64 and Awe64(I think) with about 3 1\2 GB of Hardrive. This computer was built in a local computer shop in '93 with Windows 3.1 When it was upgraded in '97 we made them leave the contents of the old drive on the new computer So here is a computer with Win95 on one drive and Win3.1 on another. I know I'm being a bit long- winded but knowing some of the background of my computer could hopefuly solve this. I will provide more info as needed. Thanks for you time.
 
I had the same problem the first time i installed it. What happened to me was I put the wrong settings for my sound card. Do you know your Irq numbers and settings for your sound card? Or you could install it with no sound, after that it didnt give me the error, I think its a joystick error, but could be wrong, I ve still had problems installing th game though. Sorry If I couldnt be of any help.
 
I am sure our Repairman has a straight solution for that, but I think he´s on vacation :)

Have you tried copying the CD-Rom to your hard drive?
 
It sounds like you're missing your CD-ROM drivers... can you view the drive when you boot via your privateer boot disk?

(JEMM's a memory overlay that many Origin games use to manage their memory)
 
Im not good a supplying technincal help over web, I have to be at the problem computer to do it, thats my problem, im too of a visual person. But, do you have the MSCDEX.exe file for the cd-drom device, and the .sys file for that cd-rom itself?

Nafé
 
Oh yeah, I just remembered. There was an old program called FAKECD. That tricked that game directory into thinking it was the CD-ROM drive. It worked on a lot of older games. Try searching it on the web and using it for Privateer it probably will work. Of course you have to copy the whole cd to the hard drive, in a directory of course.

Nafé
 
I think you can increase upper memory by using the monochrome reserved area (I think thats what its called, it was in the Privateer troubleshooting guide that came with the game)

That way you don't have to skip your cd drivers. Also still works in win98 in dos.

I remember after I found that out I used to get at least 620k conventional memory with cd drivers and mouse in upper memory.

Ahhh the days of good old msdos....the good old days when I was in early high school and not uni. Oh well, I'm closer to making my $$$ now :D
 
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