There's a better way: According to P2's manual, you can manually create a shortcut from windows, and that's the best way for P2 (regular version, same as mine
) to work from windows. Seince I don't really know how to work the deatails (
my brother is the one who did all of this, and he never told me how to do this, no matter how much i asked him to, and i'm too lazy to learn it by myself
), I'll just post what's in the P2 manual which explains it the best way (and if you can make it work then that'll be good for me too because I don't have the shortcut and my brother's living in a different county now...). Anyway, here it is:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR> You should create a DOS shortcut to allow your computer to easily and reliably move between Windows 95 (98 in our condition
) and the game. You should first try the Gateway program's shortcut maker. If that fails (which happens all the time
), make a Privateer2:The Darkening DOS shortcut by following the steps below:
1. Right click on desktop.
2. Select New, then left-click Shortcut.
3. Type c:\command.com in the command line box, left-click on Next.
4.Type in PRIVATEER 2 in the shortcut box, left-click on Finish (Yeah, I know you know how to create a shortcut, just wanted to post the thing as it apears
)
5. Right-click on the new Privateer 2 icon.
6. Left-click on Properties.
7. Left click on the Program tab.
8. Make sure the close on exit box is checked.
9. Left-click on Advanced button.
10. Cheak the MS-DOS Mode box. Make sure the Warn before Entering MS-DOS Configuration circle.
11. Click in th Specify a New MS-DOS Configuration circle.
12. In Your CONFIG.SYS box
You will need the four following lines in your CONFIG.SYS box. The lines below should be similar to lines you already have --- some of the directory names may be different.
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH
FILES=40
BUFFERS=40
If you have a plug and plat driver line (for example: C:\PLUGPLAY\DWCFGMG.SYS) you will need to keep it.
You will also need mouse and CD-ROM driver lines (cut out some useless notes
).
You may also have a sound card driver line or lines.
You may remove all the lines in your file not mentioned above. There are several lines you must remove:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\SHARE.EXE
DEVICE=C:\DOS\POWER.EXE
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\DOSDATA.SYS
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\DOS-UP.SYS c;\QEMM\DOS-UP.DAT
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS R:#
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS R:# SIZE=# C:\QEMM\ST-DBL.SYS
13. In Your AUTOEXEC.BAT Box
There are several lines you must have in your AUTOEXEC.BAT box. The 3 line below should be included, although some of the directory names may be different.
PROMPT $P$G
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
C:
You will also need mouse and CD-ROM driver lines. You may also have sound card driver lines.
There are several lines you should remove...(I think you get it
):
C:\WINDOWS\SHARE.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\POWER.EXE
WIN
C:\CORELCDX.EXE /D: E
NOTE: When you remove this line, you'll have to replace it with the line C:\XXX\MSCDEX.EXE, where \XXX\ is the directory of your MSCDEX file. On Windows 95 computers this line will be \WINDOWS\COMMAND\.
14. Left click OK to accept the changes.
15. Left-click OK to complete the shortcut.
16. You're done (finally!
)!
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
P.S.
As I said, I never *learned* working with autoexec.bat, command.com, or config.sys (got beaten up when ever I asked my brother, infact in those days I could berely touch the computer. I'm , ofcourse, exagurating: I do have some *basic* knolage with DOS and it's files, only not as much as I could have if my brother would have tought me
), and I know they differ from one machine to another, I'll post mine in another post here (my hands already hurt!
). Oh, and my maine problam in creating this shortcut (I know it has nothing to do with EDITING the DOS files! j/k) is filtering the lines I need from the ones I don't need.
Hoped it helped (and that you could help me
).
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Evilution!
) and when I hit the "Shortcut to DOS" button, I recieved an error message.
Okay, so I dropped down into DOS through the Start menu on Windows 98, and typed in INSTALL, but got the message that I didn't have enough mem (I assume that means memory). 
