Ah I like it when people like me use the search function and read "I got it working" but they don't continue saying how they did that. Really "useful" when you dig up old threads. So, with the recent dosbox 0.61, how do I get Apocalypse working? Yes the intro looks messed up and right after the …

Currently there is no possibility to adjust the number of stacks in the dosbox.conf as far as I know. Correct me if I am wrong.

Does the game not accept numerical inputs from the normal number line on the keyboard? Those are the same number inputs the numpad uses. Otherwise try activating/deactiving NUMLOCK and see if that works for you. If that doesnt solve it, describe the problem a bit more detailed. Right now it sounds …

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I don't think so (correct me if I am wrong). However, as I wrote above,hitting the key just real quick and short doesnt solve the issue in my opinion since I tried that - unless a different software setting makes a difference, who knows. Somehow I doubt it is related to the framerate, though. I …

Hi voyageur, Currently I have to use a laptop as well and I dont have an USB joystick right now, that is why I asked. Generally I prefer playing these games with a joystick, of course. Anyways, you are able to hit the ships but it is a lot tougher and takes a lot longer. If several enemies show up …

Hi, This has not that much to do with dosbox, it is rather a pure Privateer issue. Right now I can only play it with keyboard but it jumps quite a distance up and down when navigating. That can be a real problem if a ship is in between those zones: either you target above or below the target because …

I will be gone for a good while but I will check out DSA 2 and 3 and report back here in case I dont forget it.

Not sure if that helps you but there was a VGA version released of SQ1 which looks pretty normal on dosbox (and is more fun to play).

In case you havent read the manual: you can overclock dosbox to speed up the emulated program (see documentation for more details). I'm no dosbox developer so I cant tell whether dosbox will speed up in the future or not (my guess is it probably will one way or the other). However, it will never …

Strike Commander is just another I-pay-this-game-by-hardware-made-by-Origin game. ;) The game ran a-okay on a 486 DX2 (66 Mhz). Just like Privateer and many other Origin games they required high end machines at that time. The funny thing is: iIt ran with 66 Mhz and now we are beyond the 3 G(!)hz and …

I'm not sure if that helps you but X-COM 1 and 2 were released as Windows version too. With some patches that usually comes along with it you can get it to work in XP (Win98 anyway).

I dont want to go off topic but I want to say this so far: For Privateer under XP there is a tool named "myjemm" which allows you to play the game quite fast under Windows. However, the tool is not well developed (and its development seems to be slow) when I last checked it, you probably have to …

Qbix is right, Crusader as well as many other games were developed by Origin. Those games were payed with hardware, not with money as some people said (and they are right). ;) You really need a lot of GHz to get this working smooth with an emulator such as dosbox. As the authors of dosbox said the …

1) Do you have a working Crusader CD? 2) Is it in the CD-ROM drive? 3) did you mount the cdrom in dosbox? Usually when it shows such a message (cant open blablabla) the game can't find the files which are located on the CD.

Thanks, that did it! 😀 Didnt know that Privateer runs without EMS, anyways, thanks again! 😀

Hi I get the following message when trying to run Privateer: "protected mode driver is not responding to EMS function calls. make sure your driver is not configured with the NOEMS option. If it is, replace the NOEMS with RAM." Well, I know how to change that option in the config.sys of an original …