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/v == verbose. It blurts out what emm386 thinks it's doing as it loads. frame: adjusts the EMS page frame. Normally, emm386 would put the page frame (64K contiguous) at C800h. The statement I have in this version of config.sys moves it; I think I can remove it safely. ------------------ The...

Results of mem /c are pasted below. However, I have a new datum: on a hunch, I tried editing priv.cfg to contain a bogus path (=/foo/bar/baz/priv.tre), and then tried renaming priv.cfg altogether -- and both produced the same result (complete hang) as before. So whatever my problem is, it's...

no go on dos=noauto, files/buffers=30 -- she still hangs. I looked through dosemu, and it's not suitable -- for one thing, it barely supports vga, let alone svga, and even the vga runs in emulation. I suspect I'd also lose both sound and joystick (connected to the gameport on the soundcard) so...

> [...]Have you tried using DOSEMU through Linux? No; DOSEMU doesn't give raw hardware access, though, so I'm a little skeptical (to say the least) that it would be useful in the instant case. Try setting FILESHIGH and BUFFERSHIGH to 30 (yes, I know you've already been through that; do...

I've browsed through the posts on this forum, and I've also been through Dejanews several times, and have yet to get Privateer running. I'm hoping someone here can figure out what this *nix type is missing... I played Privateer on a friend's machine when it came out, and I loved it. When I...