VDMSound is just a sound card emulator that attaches to the regular Windows NTVDM process. In other words, this isn't about to happen. The only thing to do is to try contacting Microsoft with your complaint!
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(and it will be met with deafening silence...)
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Or, have a second bootable partiton or bootable removable disk so you can play Privateer.
If you're desparate to run it in Windows, load Win98 and MyJEMM (http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/rridge/myjemm.html)
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