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Wing Commander Privateer on MacOS X using 0.63

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First post, by coleca

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Hello.

I'm yet another person with a problem getting Privateer to work in DosBox. I've had little problem getting it to run on my WinXP system, although it is a little slow. I would actually like to get it to run on my Mac laptop. When I use DosBox 0.63, set ems=false in my dosbox configuration file, and invoke priv.exe, DosBox exists with the response "Exit to error: Illegal descriptor type 0 for int E"

I have no idea how to interpret this. It doesn't seem to matter what sound settings I use for Privateer or DosBox, if this helps.

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT:
I don't know if this is really necessary, but...
The system is a PowerBook G4 with a 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 and 1 GB of memory. The OS version is 10.3.3.

Reply 1 of 7, by Qbix

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stupid question: did you configure the sound correctly (the same) on both systems ?

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How to ask questions the smart way!

Reply 2 of 7, by coleca

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Sadly, yes.

Output from DosBox:

CONFIG:Loading settings from config file config
MIXER:No Sound Mode Selected.
MIDI:Opened device:none
Exit to error: Illegal descriptor type 0 for int E

Following is DosBox config:
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[sdl]

fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullfixed=false
fullresolution=1024x768
output=surface
hwscale=1.00
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt

[dosbox]

language=
machine=vga
captures=capture
memsize=16

[render]

frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=normal2x

[cpu]

core=normal
cycles=3000
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

[mixer]

nosound=true
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10

[midi]

mpu401=false
intelligent=true
device=none
config=

[sblaster]

type=none
base=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050

[gus]

gus=false
rate=22050
base=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=3
dma2=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker]

pcspeaker=false
pcrate=22050
tandyrate=22050
disney=false

[bios]

[dos]

xms=false
ems=false

[modem]

modem=false
comport=2
listenport=23

[ipx]

ipx=false

[autoexec]

Reply 5 of 7, by Voostra

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Any progress being made on this?
- I think I'm having the same problem. Tried running Privateer, got the same error messge about ems, turned ems to false, then dosbox just closes (program quits) when I try to run it.

Reply 6 of 7, by Pickleman0

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Any progress on this? Is this an actual Big/Little Endian problem? I've seen at least one other post on here where they have gotten the same errors and have posted a debug. I've got the exact same config working on my PC, but not my Mac.

Please give us an update.

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