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Fine whatever. I'm growing tired of this discussion. The whole abondonware issue has already been discussed elsewhere. I have an old orignal of WC1, but my primary interest is in Privateer, of which I have an original copy as well.

I know Kris lives in Belgium (I can read a profile too), and I'm happy for him that he's been able to get those games. However I'm in a situation right now that if I want to get a copy of KS I don't know where I supposed to find it.

How does the fact that I can't possible get a copy not count as an argument?! Also, it's nice to see you've got a long list of stuff, but how does that help me?

Thanks for the advice (creative web), but that's the first place I went. They don't really seem al that interested in providing DOS drivers for their newer cards, which is understandable, but unfortunate for those of us who still love our old games.

Sorry to bug in, but I see you are using apinit.com. Whenever I load this driver into memory privateer stalls after giving the "priv" command at the dos command prompt, whether a music card is selected or not. So I was wondering what music card you are using.

It alread stalls if I have no sound selected. For some weird reason Privateer doesn't seem to like the driver to be loaded, wheather it is used or not. I don't really understand why, and was hoping someone might know where I could find a dedicated Dos driver that works with my soundcard.

I wish I could, however I live in the Netherlands, and our local version of eBay is not yet that big that you can find every game you want, besides which, there are some really fun old games, like digger, for which I'm not even sure there ever was a commercial version available. However I don't...

Well, the SB PCI128 has a special driver for MS-Dos Mode, called Legacy Drive that emulates Soundblaster Pro, Soundscape, MPU-401 and Adlib. I've of course tried all of these, however with the same result everytime.

Quatro I've gone back to read that stuff about abondonware. I continue to disagree with your opinion, however if it's policy of CIC, then so be it. I would hope that someday Origin would be so kind as to offer some of their older games as free downloads, so this we wouldn't have to use abandonware.

Ok, new problem. Using a boot disk I got Privateer to work without sound. However I also found out why I couldn't get Privateer to work before: my sound drivers. I have a Soundblaster PCI128. The driver I am using is located in C:\progra~1\creative\ctsnd\dosdrv\apinit.com when I load this file...

Mekt Sorry didn't check my mail for a while, just replied, so check your mail box, should get have a reply.

Sorry for not reading the rules, but what's wrong with abandonware. You can't buy the games, so why should it be wrong to put them on the web for free?

Ok, I just "solved" the problem with a boot disk, but I still think it's silly that it's neccessary, that you can just restart in MS-Dos mode, however it works, so I'm happy ... on to the next problem sound! But I've seen a lot of discussions about that, so that should work.

Wing Commander 3 I'm really stupid!

Hi, I forgot to mention in my previous post, but yes, I didn't select a sound card, just to make sure that wasn't going to be the problem (I figured I'd worry about that later, if I could only just get the game to work!)

If only, maybe in an ideal world. However I beleive that since you can no longer buy either Priv 1 or 2 they've got their attention elsewhere. Just look at the website's they've got for both games. They haven't changed in ages.

Now that Origin has seen there's a market for re-releasing some of it's old gems, shouldn't they also release a Privateer double bill with both games being playable under Windows (so we can stop having to waste time tinkering with those config files, and just play)? Seems like a great idea to...

ok configs are as follows: autoexec.bat: C:\PROGRA~1\MCAFEE~1\SCAN.EXE C:\ @IF ERRORLEVEL 1 PAUSE SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2 SET SOUND=C:\SB16 SET NUMLOCK=OFF LH C:\Logitech\MOUSE\MOUSE.EXE LH C:\WIN95_25\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /E /D:IDECD000...

Hi, I've seen a lot of messages on this board concerning Privateer, however most concern memory of sound card problems. My problem is a bit different: After installing the game (in MS-Dos mode of Win95 and without a sound card). I give the command "priv" and then my computer stalls...