MAAAAAN! A galleon fled from my damaged pinnace with the help of strong winds, and the game told me that the enemy had seized my other ship because I had fled. But it wasn't me who fled, it was the cowardly galleon! :ranting: But the other ship was of course bigger than the pinnace, so most of my gold was there! I was at the very end of an expedition and I had amassed half a million of gold pieces, but I lost most of it! GRAAAAARGH! It wasn't me who was fleeing!!! :ranting:

Next time use a Barge, I always do, better than any other ship available (of course you have capture one).

But, coming to the other problem....XP or MS-DOS or DosBox...ever since I instaled XP a bug seems to have developed...the message says something about no EMM or XMS mem. Funny? The same game was working without any problems with Win98...now even in DosBox I keep getting the same message? :angry:

Most DOS games work with Windows 98 and not with Windows XP, because Win98 is just DOS v7 with a graphic enviroment quite like old Win3, and WinXP has little to do with that. In fact most people will tell you that Win98 can run any old DOS game, which is not true.

In DOSBox you can configure whether XMS or EMS will be emulated. Check the options.

I downloaded this game the other day and first let me say thanks Abandonia - I used to play this game for days when it was first released and I was extremely happy to find it here.

:sos:

Unfortunately, I also downloaded the Manual and the Map, but I do not see the Captain's Broadsheet anywhere, and said document has the breakdown of which key does what, so without it I don't know how to do a few important things like command both groups (or switch between them) in a land combat situation so I am forced to try and make a run for the fort with the group I default command, hopefully getting there before my other group is slaughtered due to my inability to command them...

On an equally frustrating note, has anyone else experienced a problem during sea combat where your ship seems almost 100% unresponsive to a turn command?

** Please note I also cross-posted this in another thread in the Troubleshooting forum - many of the items discussed in this thread seem related to my question but it also seems appropriate for the TS forum, at least to me....

Japofran Win98 will run almost all old DOS games in the DOS-prompt. XP a few!

And Guest Pirates Gold uses the mouse for all actions! If your ship is not reacting in a combat situation then either you don't have guns or fewer men. But I think is that you are not using your mouse...left button for navigating and right for firing...you'll have to learn when the enemy is in range and when to avoid their shots. Sometimes you have to board their ship and then fence with the enemy captain!

Peace and Good Hunting!

To switch combat groups press Enter or the left-click, to move all of them at the same time keep that pressed. Enter usually works better here, if you use the mouse you'll have to keep it pressed for a second in order to get response.

Whe sailing, on the contrary, the cursor keys respond poorly, I used the mouse instead, although it's not apples either. The left button turns left and the right one turns right.

I prefer full keyboard control. I dont know if mouse when sailing got better response or a bug that "forgets" wind effect.

Thanks for the help guys - will try it and see :titan:

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The version of Pirates! Gold on Abandonia is the DOS version. The only way to run it on a Windows XP system is to use Doxbox, which slows the game down alot, the slowdown isn't so bothersome, however, when I run the game in Dosbox the only way to play it is in a Windowed mode, when I run it fullscreen, the screen goes blank with a little window that says something about the Horizontal and Vertical frequency being out of range, so if you really want to enjoy the game, download the Windows version of the game, to run the Windows version of Pirates! Gold in Windows XP all you have to do is to right click on the executable and select Run in Windows 95 Compatibility Mode, Run in 256 Colors, and change the resolution on your computer to 640x480, the game will run perfectly and almost full screen.

If you need any help with configuring DosBox... well, just ask.