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John, That was an error message that I recieved. It told me that there was insufficient DMA access or some such. I added the parameter (whatever it's really for) and it runs fine, except for sound. I'm going to try various configuration options to see if I can get that bug out.

Thanks! Thank you, Stinger! That was the problem. Duh! - I used to know this crap like the back of my hand, too. Now I feel dumb. I have the screeching problem I saw in other posts, but I'll read them before bugging you again. After flying a bit (took out a couple retros - they really...

Thanks for the reply Thanks for responding Stinger. I found the problem. For future referrence, it was that I had too much computer for the game. I disabled some of the hardware acceleration in the sound driver and increased the sample rate in the control panel, and that solved the problem...

autoexec.bat: @ECHO OFF REM ** Set environment variables SET TMP=c:\windows\TEMP SET TEMP=C:\windows\TEMP SET PROMPT=MS-DOS Mode $p$g SET winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND SET BLASTER = A240 I5 D1 T4 LH C:\WINDOWS\AU30DOS.COM C: cd privater...

How bad do you want it? EA stock is now at 54.75. If you really, REALLY want to see the WC/Privateer universe to get attention, buy some stock, and write to EA *as a stockholder*. In fact, I think I just might do that.. (I own 100 shares). Anybody wanna join me? Easy Money

I'm trying to play the WC3 portion of The Kilrathi Saga. WC 1 + 2 were fine. However, when I try to run a mission (or trainsim) the 'puter locks up at "Downloading Navigation info...". A hard reboot is sometimes needed to restart my system. The funny thing, though is that sometimes it lets my...

WCRPG There is a Wing Commander Role Play game, but you don't actually fly the missions. The attacks are simulated by dice, and modifiers given for tactics. It's played over IRC with a dice rolling proggie. Here's the address if any are interested. http://www.wcrpg.com I'd really, REALLY...

I'm retrying Privateer, too. It's been so darned long since I monkeyed with DOS I forgot all this stuff, and they moved things on me. Darn! Anyhow, I think a boot disk is in order. I've got the diskette version (backup copies - the originals are screwed). I've installed it, so I won't need...