Hi, first post but here goes...
OK! Hearing about the news of MyJEMM and the sadness that it doesn't work with Windows XP prompted me to try a dual boot installation of Windows XP and Windows 98.
First off my system
P3 1GHz
1100+MB of RAM
30GB HD
NVidia GeForce2
SB Live Value
Logitech USB Joystick
Logitech USB Mouse
When I first installed WinXP a few months ago over my previous installation of 98 it left me with a dual boot option to boot to 98 or XP. However, I had already deleted 98 and Windows XP had just detected the "remains." So... today I figured what the heck and reinstalled 98 again in a different directory from Windows XP. I now had the realistic option to boot to WinXP or Win98.
If you have more than 512 MB of RAM in your system, BEFORE doing anything in Windows 98, you HAVE to run MSCONFIG and goto the advanced option under the general tab. Limiting your memory to 500 or so MB should fix any overage issues Win98 has with too much memory. Windows 98 does not like having more than 512MB of RAM or so installed on any computer it's running on.
Next up is to make sure your soundcard's SB emulation has the proper range of settings:
Address of 220
IRQ of 5
DMA of 1
Those are perfect for Privateer.
Next, I had to use the -s option when running MyJEMM because anytime there was any sort of speech it either locked up my computer or crashed/reset it all together. This fixed the problem for me however (unlike the readme file saying it's for other problems). I also HAD to use the standard Sound Blaster as my soundcard. The game simply crashed to the desktop when speech was played using the SB16 or SB Pro as the selected speech card. I was however able to use General MIDI as the music card and it sounds great. My only complaint are the faint "popping" sounds I hear while speech is being played.
I calibrated my joystick in game and I was good to go.
Now if I want to play Privateer I just reset my computer and boot to Win98 instead, while still retaining Windows XP for everything else. Dual boot is a MUCH preferred alternative to emulating a complete operating system. I'm just not sure how it will work if you don't have Win98 installed before you installed WinXP. I'm not sure if installing Win98 when you already have WinXP installed normally will give you the dual boot option but I'm sure it can be setup easily.
OK! Hearing about the news of MyJEMM and the sadness that it doesn't work with Windows XP prompted me to try a dual boot installation of Windows XP and Windows 98.
First off my system
P3 1GHz
1100+MB of RAM
30GB HD
NVidia GeForce2
SB Live Value
Logitech USB Joystick
Logitech USB Mouse
When I first installed WinXP a few months ago over my previous installation of 98 it left me with a dual boot option to boot to 98 or XP. However, I had already deleted 98 and Windows XP had just detected the "remains." So... today I figured what the heck and reinstalled 98 again in a different directory from Windows XP. I now had the realistic option to boot to WinXP or Win98.
If you have more than 512 MB of RAM in your system, BEFORE doing anything in Windows 98, you HAVE to run MSCONFIG and goto the advanced option under the general tab. Limiting your memory to 500 or so MB should fix any overage issues Win98 has with too much memory. Windows 98 does not like having more than 512MB of RAM or so installed on any computer it's running on.
Next up is to make sure your soundcard's SB emulation has the proper range of settings:
Address of 220
IRQ of 5
DMA of 1
Those are perfect for Privateer.
Next, I had to use the -s option when running MyJEMM because anytime there was any sort of speech it either locked up my computer or crashed/reset it all together. This fixed the problem for me however (unlike the readme file saying it's for other problems). I also HAD to use the standard Sound Blaster as my soundcard. The game simply crashed to the desktop when speech was played using the SB16 or SB Pro as the selected speech card. I was however able to use General MIDI as the music card and it sounds great. My only complaint are the faint "popping" sounds I hear while speech is being played.
I calibrated my joystick in game and I was good to go.
Now if I want to play Privateer I just reset my computer and boot to Win98 instead, while still retaining Windows XP for everything else. Dual boot is a MUCH preferred alternative to emulating a complete operating system. I'm just not sure how it will work if you don't have Win98 installed before you installed WinXP. I'm not sure if installing Win98 when you already have WinXP installed normally will give you the dual boot option but I'm sure it can be setup easily.
