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I've got my CD copy of privateer to work but its not exactly playable, although I have noticed that placing data.tre onto the C:\ drive does improve things somewhat, esp stability wise. As it is at the moment, the game is far too slow to be playable, even when I've messed around with the...

Ah well, fair enough. Thanks anyway and maybe someone else might have a suggestion in the meantime.

Just tried to get my new CDROM version of Armada to work but also with no joy. I've tried setting ems=true and ems=false. With EMS true I get an error message and with EMS false I get returned to the prompt. Has anyone got any ideas? ...... Edit ...... Just tried reinstalling the...

The only problem you could have is the power of your computer. DosBox (as far as I can tell) needs a fairly powerful computer to run it. My Athlon 2600 isn't ridiculously powerful but you may need something with a little more punch than a 98 machine.

Ah, yes. I remember now. The hyperactive cutscenes and flybys never reall bothered me that much, especially as the voiceovers worked fine for the most part. The gamplay was pretty good though and Priv 1 worked perfectly.

Oh, in addition, I never had any real problems speed wise running the WC games on faster PCs, with the exception of WC1. The regular versions of WC2 and Priv (the Kilrathi saga is too buggy to be worth the money just for playing - collecting is a different matter) ran reasonably well, although...

If you have a fairly powerful PC (I'm running an Athlon 2600 XP with 512MB DDR RAM) then DosBox will be the easiest way to get WC1 working properly (especially as it can be used in the windows XP environment. If you set it for around 6000 CPU Cycles a second it'll run quite nicely. The speed of...

I found a good way of getting on good terms with the pirates was to sell a mercenery pilot into slavery (you can tractor in ejected pilots as well as cargo). This makes the last few missions, in which you spend most of the time in asteroid fields, much easier. It makes life much easier to...

This is odd. I'm a UK resident currently living in the original Hampshire in the original England. Ah well, I have heard someone on this board describe England as a 'Scary Doctor Who type country'. That was a while ago. Coincidently, Tom Baker used to shop in my local branch of Waitrose...

Well I think you guys are pretty good for doing what you manage to do anyway. At least the dialog on the forum means that a lack of updates won't let people think the mod is dead. Also, congratulations Pete.

I liked the way the losing path put you in an already damaged ship, and then hurled a burning friendly craft at you as you took off. Looked brilliant! Buggered your ship yet further though, which was less welcome.

That was often the case in UE. If you got back to the Dauntless (and that's a very big if) then you probably managed to get the mission done. In the first mission flying the Gratha I have trouble meeting the first wave of fighters at the first nav point. Then I have to go and fight Salthi in an...

"Pah!" ? The Kilrathi aren't quite as hard as they used to be then.

Does anyone still have that link to End Run? It's one of the novels that's tricky to find in the UK. Got a copy of Fleet Action off Amazon (second hand) from my Girlfriend as a pressie. Looks cracking. If anyone has that End Run link I'd be dead chuffed.

The Wraith looks incredible. The cockpit is pretty cool too. Standoff is going to be amazing!

Ah, ok. I'll give that a go. Need to get that damn mouse working... Aprart from that issue everything else has been resolved, thanks for your help.

Hi, I've looked through the posts here but I have been unable to find solutions for these problems. Any help would be appreciated. I'm running the games on a 486 75Mhz with 16Mb RAM and an SBVibra 16 sound card. The games are taken from the WC1 and 2 CDROM. When I play WC1 (which I have...

Drifiting back to torpedo fighters, will it be necessary to use torps to kill capships or will good 'ol fashioned guns and dumbfires be sufficent?

I thought the speed of 200Kps is only intended for use within the game itself. Capships can go much faster by closing their scoops (scoops are the reason that WC ships act like they're in an atmosphere and suffer air resistance). So when someone says that a particular ship is fast they are...

Personally, I really hate full cockpits as it massively reduces the view and makes it far harder to track targets. This problem was especially prominent when flying the Rapier (in WC2 at least, still trying to get WC1 to work properly). I'm not sure if full cockpit screens would work terribly...