Trying to run Privater1 with OS Win98

I finally did the same thing with a IBM PC 330 P60 about a week ago. I have P1, WC Armada, WC ACADEMY, and RENEGADE: the Battle for Jacob Star install on it. I have a SB16 PCI card. I a course created a custom boot menu so I can choice which game to play. P1 plays on my win98 fine it was the other games I was having problems with. I got like four more DOS games I can load on it. This really is the best way to play old DOS games.
 
Hey there, I am having trouble getting P1 to run. I am running the win95 CD version of P1 which optimizes the shortcut and memory management. Obviously it doesnt have much luck w/ my newer PC, since I used to play this game on my old P-166 mmx.

When I go into DOS i checked the conventional memory; it read 590k...is that good or not enough? I'm not very good at configuring my hardware or making a boot disk, so can any of you guys help? The main problem w/ the game is the sound obviously, crashes when I type in priv, screen turns black. I think it has trouble loading the music and the speech most likely.

These are my files that the Win95 version tried to create for me, I dont think these will work but these are the settings I am stuck with for the shortcut, help? Please?

Config.sys file
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DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE I=B000-B7FF RAM 3072
DOS=HIGH
DOS=UMB
FILES=25
BUFFERS=25
LASTDRIVE=K
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM\IDE.SYS /D:IDECD000 /UDMA /Q



Autoexec.bat file
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SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 P330 T6
SET SBPCI=C:\SBPCI
PROMPT $P$G
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:IDECD000 /M:5

CLS
ECHO
ECHO
ECHO
ECHO
ECHO
ECHO
ECHO
ECHO
ECHO
ECHO
ECHO
ECHO
C:\WINDOWS\msg_priv.com

My sound emulation is c:\sbpci
But anyways I'll try out the settings posted on this thread
Again, my skills w/ Dos or PC stuff isnt very good


[Edited by DragonRider on 07-05-2001 at 03:54]
 
Forget what I previously posted, I finally got P1 working! I didnt even need to include a boot disk, it ran fine through the Windows shortcut process.

What I did was experimenting with a few settings with the IRQ since my sound card was sharing IRQ 7 w/ my LPT printer port, which causes the game to crash when I initialize the sound.

Long story short, I eventually got my sound card to switch to IRQ 5 and made some changes to the Bios system, and the computer runs just fine now.
 
Sound with privateer... need help

I have Privateer successfully running on my computer. Unfortunately, it only works with no sound or speech cards specified in the install options. How can I configure it to play sound?

Below are all relevant files. It starts with what the control panel told me about the two sound devices on my computer. I threw in the Gameport joystick but doubt I can get it to work. Then there are my bootdisk autoexec and config files. Thanks very much for the help.

If possible, please send a copy of the reply to adam.goldfarb@yale.edu.

Creative Soundblaster Audio PCI 64v
11 interrupt request
input/output range 1000-103F
All of these are in windows\system
es1371.vxd
mmdevldr.vxd
eapc195.hlp
eapci_ss.ini
sndscape.ini
mixres32.dll
starter.exe
ensmix32.exe
sb3d.dll
a3d.dll
eapcI4m.ecw
default.ecw
eapc!2m.ecw
enres16.fll
es137195.drv

Also SB AudioPCI 64V Legacy Device
Windows\system\vmm32.vxd
Sound Blaster Pro Emulation Settings
Port 220
IRQ 7
DMA 1

Gameport joystick (I don't have any software for it)
0200-0207 input/output range
joyd.vxd
mmdevldr.vxd
msanalog.vxd
msjstick.drv

autoexec.bat (this contains an attempt to get the sound to work, but it hasn’t)
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\windows\system;c:\windows\command;c:\msinput
PROMPT $P$G
SET COMPSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
loadhigh=MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001
loadhigh=MOUSE.EXE
loadhigh=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VMM32.VXD
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 T7

config.sys
files=30
buffers=30
device=himem.sys /testmem:off
device=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE ram 16384 I=B000-B7FF
DOS=HIGH,UMB
devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /e 2048
devicehigh=C:\CDROM\MTMCDAI.SYS /d:mscd001
rem device=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ES1371.VXD
devicehigh=C:\PLUGPLAY\DRIVERS\DOS\DWCFGMG.SYS
stacks=9,256
lastdrive=z
SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM C:\WINDOWS /P
 
sound continued

I don't know if this is helpful... I use a bootdisk, rather than select "restart the computer in MS-DOS mode." For what it's worth, the problem may be that my printer is set on interrupt request 7, but I don't know.

Please forward a reply to adam.goldfarb@yale.edu, if possible.

Dosstart file:
@echo off

REM Notes:
REM DOSSTART.BAT is run whenenver you choose "Restart the computer
REM in MS-DOS mode" from the Shutdown menu in Windows. It allows
REM you to load programs that you might not want loaded in Windows,
REM (because they have functional equivalents) but that you do
REM want loaded under MS-DOS. The two primary candidates for
REM this are MSCDEX and a real mode driver for the mouse you ship
REM with your system. Commands that you want present in both Windows
REM and MS-DOS should be placed in the Autoexec.bat in the
REM \Image directory of your reference server. Please note that for
REM MSCDEX you will need to load the corresponding real-mode CD
REM driver in Config.sys. This driver won't be used by Windows 98
REM but will be available prior to and after Windows 98 exits.
REM
REM This file is also helpful if you want to F8 boot into MS-DOS 7.0
REM before Windows loads and access the CD-ROM. All you have to do
REM is press F8 and then run DOSSTART to load MSCDEX and your real
REM mode mouse driver (no need to remember the command line parameters
REM for these two files.
REM
REM - You MUST explicitly specify the CD ROM Drive Letter for MSCDEX.
REM - The string following the /D: statement must explicitly match
REM the string in CONFIG.SYS following your CD-ROM device driver.

MSCDEX.EXE /D:OEMCD001 /l:d
MOUSE.EXE
 
Where are the DOS drivers for your Creative Soundblaster Audio PCI 64? There should be a folder like c:\sbpci or c:\sb16.
 
No, no folder like that... anywhere else it could be? I've looked around and done a search and found nothing. The only files that show up on a search for "sb" that look interesting are

sb3d.dll in windows/options/cabs
sb3d.dll also in windows/system
sb16awe in windows/inf
sb.apm and sb16.apm in c:/helpspot

Are any of those the drivers? (no I don't know much about computers.)
 
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