thank you, Snover, and my apologies.. I spent about 8 solid hours of tinkering and searching, and was pretty brain-dead and angry by the time I got here.

Win2k SP3, Privateer 1, no worky. protected mode drive is not responding to EMS function calls. Make sure your EMS driver is not configured with the NOEMS option. If it is, replace the option "NOEMS" with "RAM". in the config.nt, I have a EMM= RAM line, which works. in the PIF I use to start …