sorry, forgot to include vital stats:

Athlon XP 2400+
MSI KT600 mobo
1024 DDR333
GeForce FX5200 w/Detonator 53.03 driver
Samsung CDRW SW-232B
Pioneer DVD-106S

lavigj wrote:

I am pretty sure that the CD is mounting correctly because I can browse the CD in DOSbox.

Any help would be appreciated.

Well that is a bad assumption. You can mount cd in at least 4 different ways and with each one the cd is readable from within dosbox.

Try looking at the mount command in the readme

Well, I tried about sixteen different mount methods on both drives, all resulting in "Privateer CD not found., <br> JEMM unloading.

mount d f:\ -t cdrom
fail

mount d f:\ -ioctl
fail

mount d f:\ -aspi
fail

mount d f:\ -usecd 1
fail

mount d f:\ -t cdrom -aspi
MSCDEX: Failure: Path not valid. Drive D mounted as CDRom.

mount d f:\ -t cdrom -ioctl
MSCDEX Installed.
Drive D mounted as CDRom.

mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 1
MSCDEX installed.
Drive D mounted as CDRom.

mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 1 -ioctl
MSCDEX installed.
Drive D mounted as CDRom.

mount d e:\ -t cdrom
MSCDEX installed.
Drive D mounted as CDRom.

mount d e:\ -ioctl
Drive D mounted as local diretory e:\

mount d e:\ -aspi
Drive D mounted as local diretory e:\

mount d e:\ -usecd 0
MSCDEX installed
Drive D mounted as CDRom.

mount d e:\ -t cdrom -aspi
MSCDEX: Failure: Path not valid.
Drive D mounted as CDRom.

mount d e:\ -t cdrom -ioctl
MSCDEX installed.
Drive D mounted as CDRom.

mount d e:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
MSCDEX installed.
Drive D mounted as CDRom.

So, not much luck overall after starting and restarting DOSBox sixteen times, but it appears that I might have better luck with the samsung drive. ( e: )

I do remember that Privateer required a certain version of MSCDEX to work, but I don't recall off hand what it was.

Any further input would be appreciated.

Hello all...n00b here!

I'm having the same problem:

1mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 1 
2MSCDEX installed. 
3Drive D mounted as CDRom.

but I still get the jemm error.

I would like to try the -lable function but have no idea what the lable is or how to find it!

could one of you fine folks point me in the right direction?

many thanks!

fine prog you got here, I'm excited to see it working!

specs:
P4, 2.6 gig
512mb ram
ATAPI 48x cdrom

The easiest way to get around this problem, I should think, would be to copy priv.tre and rf.tre to the same directory as the rest of the game install (If we are talking about the Deluxe all-talkie CD version) and then edit your priv.cfg and rf.cfg files to point to C:priv.tre and C:rf.tre respectively.

Note that it will probably take about 200MB of space to do this, but I've not had any issues at all.

On top of that, Qbix, Harekjet, Snover, et. al, with the latest CVS version Privateer runs much better on my PIII/600 than it did with 0.61. I'm guessing there's been some massive optimizations with the CPU paging support happening lately.

hmm maybe in the way it's compiled.
Or do you compile it yourself ?

I have binaries of both 0.61 and CVS compiled with the same flags. Privateer runs a lot lot lot faster on the CVS version (and is playable on my box!) compared to 0.61.

So the speedup is not related to the way dosbox is compiled (or some changes allowed gcc to do some more optimisations 😉 )

well the cvs is quite different then 0.61.
So it's possible.
I think mouse control within privateer should be better as well.

Well I got it running!!

mount f f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 1

I assumed the first drive letter was what Dosbox called it. I didnt realize it actually used it.

doh!!

it was real choppy & crashed before the intro finished, but I suppose a little tweaking will fix that.

thanks, pointing out the games config files is what allowed me to discover my error 😉