Privateer on Win XP/ME

[Eblis]

Privateer on Win XP/ME (another thread)

This is my first post.

A couple of days ago I decided I needed to get privateer to work on my machine. PIII 733, 384 megs ram, Win XP, etc.

this is what I did, created a Win ME rescue disk (Win XP dos boot disk isn't as good I've found). And I have tried the Virtual Machine idea, sorry but that's too much of a pain in the ___ for me.

it's important that you have privateer setup so it doesn't require the CD (EA Classics Privateer and Rightous Fire CD), because you won't have enough base memory for the CD supported boot.

Choose the 'Minimal Boot' option, setup your mouse, and your set.

Also before you people start complaining about no sound or joystick/joypad support, USB ports won't work, and sound cards made post Win 98 have no dos drivers. So do as I did, go find an old SB16 card (Win XP seems to ignore it but it works in dos) and you have a sound card and gameport that will work.

if you want a copy of the Win ME rescue disk (would this be software piracy?) this link should work

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/700eae88/bc/rescue.ace.ace?bcnA5Q9A2POOfpDu

-Eblis

 

[Mystery muppet]

I'm ALMOST confused... You're saying that you've found another way to get Privateer running on a machine with WinXP, is that it? But... I believe WinMe uses FAT32... FAT32 wields DOS... Alright, I'm confused, I confess.

 

[Eblis]

okay, this is what I'm saying.

I'm using the win ME rescue disk (created on a win ME machine), on my win XP machine, to get into a DOS shell. as far as I can tell the file system doesn't matter.

This approach will also work, of course on a win ME machine.

The only reason I went with the win ME (DOS) boot disk is because it had option like CD-support, no CD-support, whereas the win XP (DOS) boot disk has no options.

 

[Mystery muppet]

So, it runs in DOS. With a bootdisk. Ok. As this is usually the first suggestion for getting DOS-games running, forgive me if I'm not overly extatic. Well, now go and enjoy Privateer!