Kyber

Not sure if you can help (or if this even belongs here) but this is making me just a wee bit crazy... In my ongoing (but fairly recent) struggle to play some old MS-DOS based classic games, I got MS Virtual PC 2004. I created a new machine, with a 1gig virtual drive, and prepared to instal ms dos 6.22. I have run across 2 seperate issues... on is the error message "NTLDR is missing", and the other, where Setup starts, but then for ome reason keeps asking for Disk 1 (which I do have, and it refuses to acknowledge). Just wondered, especially with that NTLDR thing, has anyone encountered such a thing, or can you shed some light? If you need any other details, please, ask and I'll tell you what I can. Thanks.

So... if I boot from a 6.22 boot disk, then format my floppies, THEN copy my files to the floppy, that should eliminate that error, and they will become bootable? If so, that will only leave me with the (expletive deleted) "Insert Disk #1" message that I get every time I try to run setup manually, lol.. I've read a few older posts suggesting that it is the labeling of the floppies causing that problem, but I have re-labeled them in several possible avariations and still seem to have problems with them. I have managed to successfully install and run one game I was working towards (Privateer 2) on a Win98 Virtual machine, but still wish to create and use a pure DOS 6.22 one, if possible.. so I'll keep plugging away. Thanks a TON for the insight on the NTLDR issue, that one was a tricky find, good luck for me you were on the ball -Kyber

I tried searching, but found nothing helpful, so if this HAS been answered elsewhere, please forgive me, but I am really dying to play my fave space game of all time, and really would love to let my kids in on the joy that was Privateer as well. I am new to this whole "compatability" thang, but can follow instrutions pretty well, and have some smarts, at least So please, please, please... if anyone here can help me get these suckers rolling in Win2000 Pro, TWO generations of gaming enthusiasts will forever be thankful! ICQ 452671 Thanks

I got it, and almost there! I installed Privateer, but am having a hangup with the EMS settings... since I think it doesn't actually use the old emm386.exe from dos, the option I see in the dosbox.conf file is simply "ems=true"... I need to set the ems to "ram" according to the docs with privateer... is there a way? Should I maybe disable xms? Has anyone here actually DONE this with Privateer before? (long shot, I know, but I am so close I can taste it, heh.. Privateer 2: The Darkening is next, I hope )

Great, thanks! Just grabbed that, with luck I'll be on my way as soon as I try it