I've browsed through the posts on this forum, and I've also been through Dejanews several times, and have yet to get Privateer running. I'm hoping someone here can figure out what this *nix type is missing...
I played Privateer on a friend's machine when it came out, and I loved it. When I found it on CD, I snapped it up.. but it hangs my system when I try to run it: after typing "priv" at the prompt, my machine goes dead in the ether. Three-fingering it produces no results, I have to hard-reset. This is true regardless of whether I 1)try to run from the CD or 2)copy everything to my hard drive, edit the priv.cfg file to contain a relative path to priv.tre, and run from HDD without loading realmode CD drivers. (Note that I can scavenge enough conventional memory that adding the CD drivers does not bring me below the doc-professed minimum of 580K.)
The machine in question runs Win98SE (and linux, but I doubt that's the problem) and is a homebrew Athlon 650 with 256MB RAM, Creative TNT2U video, Creative SBLive! Value sound, Creative DVD/DXR3 (CDrom functionality with generic drivers) and a 3Com 3C905B 10/100 ethernet card; input devices are a PS2 mouse and a Sidewinder FF Pro.
This system is happy to run cool while overclocked to 750MHZ (with the DRAM at 153MHZ, even!) but to rule out any oddities I've tried running it at the default CMOS settings, with the same results.
Here are examples of the config.sys/autoexec.bat I've used. I've tried several variations (including: reducing EMS ram to 7168 and below; not loading the SB16 emulation and installing privateer without sound; not loading mouse support; running from HDD without CD drivers; manually configuring filehandles and stack space) and for all configurations which give me enough EMS, fhandles and stack that privateer doesn't complain, it hangs.
Config.sys:
DOS=HIGH,UMB
Device=C:\WIN98SE\Himem.Sys
DeviceHigh=C:\WIN98SE\EMM386.Exe RAM 7168 /V FRAME=E000 /I=B000-B7FF
devicehigh=c:\win98se\command\ebd\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
Autoexec.bat:
SET TMP=C:\WIN98SE\TEMP
SET TEMP=C:\WIN98SE\TEMP
SET PROMPT=$p$g
SET winbootdir=C:\WIN98SE
SET PATH=C:\WIN98SE;C:\WIN98SE\COMMAND
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET CTSYN=C:\WIN98SE
C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
loadhigh=c:\win98se\command\mscdex /V /L:G /D:MSCD001 /M:5 /E
loadhigh=c:\win98se\command\mouse.com
Note: These are from a PIF file, but I also tried a bootable diskette with materially the same settings (and all the variations noted above) and results remain the same.
Any suggestions?
(ps. "clo" is a spamtrap -- to get to a mailbox that will be seen, use "olc".)
Thanks,
O
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I played Privateer on a friend's machine when it came out, and I loved it. When I found it on CD, I snapped it up.. but it hangs my system when I try to run it: after typing "priv" at the prompt, my machine goes dead in the ether. Three-fingering it produces no results, I have to hard-reset. This is true regardless of whether I 1)try to run from the CD or 2)copy everything to my hard drive, edit the priv.cfg file to contain a relative path to priv.tre, and run from HDD without loading realmode CD drivers. (Note that I can scavenge enough conventional memory that adding the CD drivers does not bring me below the doc-professed minimum of 580K.)
The machine in question runs Win98SE (and linux, but I doubt that's the problem) and is a homebrew Athlon 650 with 256MB RAM, Creative TNT2U video, Creative SBLive! Value sound, Creative DVD/DXR3 (CDrom functionality with generic drivers) and a 3Com 3C905B 10/100 ethernet card; input devices are a PS2 mouse and a Sidewinder FF Pro.
This system is happy to run cool while overclocked to 750MHZ (with the DRAM at 153MHZ, even!) but to rule out any oddities I've tried running it at the default CMOS settings, with the same results.
Here are examples of the config.sys/autoexec.bat I've used. I've tried several variations (including: reducing EMS ram to 7168 and below; not loading the SB16 emulation and installing privateer without sound; not loading mouse support; running from HDD without CD drivers; manually configuring filehandles and stack space) and for all configurations which give me enough EMS, fhandles and stack that privateer doesn't complain, it hangs.
Config.sys:
DOS=HIGH,UMB
Device=C:\WIN98SE\Himem.Sys
DeviceHigh=C:\WIN98SE\EMM386.Exe RAM 7168 /V FRAME=E000 /I=B000-B7FF
devicehigh=c:\win98se\command\ebd\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
Autoexec.bat:
SET TMP=C:\WIN98SE\TEMP
SET TEMP=C:\WIN98SE\TEMP
SET PROMPT=$p$g
SET winbootdir=C:\WIN98SE
SET PATH=C:\WIN98SE;C:\WIN98SE\COMMAND
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET CTSYN=C:\WIN98SE
C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
loadhigh=c:\win98se\command\mscdex /V /L:G /D:MSCD001 /M:5 /E
loadhigh=c:\win98se\command\mouse.com
Note: These are from a PIF file, but I also tried a bootable diskette with materially the same settings (and all the variations noted above) and results remain the same.
Any suggestions?
(ps. "clo" is a spamtrap -- to get to a mailbox that will be seen, use "olc".)
Thanks,
O
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