First post, by Marauder
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I don't want to rush things, but is there going to be VCPI support in the near future(2003)? I would really like to play Strike Commander&Privateer.
Reply 1 of 3, by Qbix
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It won't be soon
AFAIK privateer doesn't need it though. that needs pagefaults.
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Reply 2 of 3, by Nicht Sehr Gut
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Originally posted by Qbix AFAIK privateer doesn't need it though. that needs pagefaults.
Privateer definitely needs it. From Microsoft's Q132994 knowledge article:
Privateer by Origin Executable: PRIV.EXE Privateer uses the Virtual Control Programming Interface (VCPI) which is supported by […]
Privateer by Origin
Executable: PRIV.EXE
Privateer uses the Virtual Control Programming Interface (VCPI) which is supported by Windows 95 only in MS-DOS mode.
I had contacted the author of MyJEMM (which allows some VCPI titles to run in Win9x) and he said he knew of someone attempting to create a version of DosBox that would support Privateer, but when I pressed for a name he declined to give it.
Things have gone quiet since then...
Reply 3 of 3, by Harekiet
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The actual VCPI interface isn't so hard to make but you can't do anything with it since dosbox doesn't support the cpu features vcpi games wanna use 😀