First about Pirates Gold. I have had the pleasure of owning all three Pirates! versions. The first one on Amiga 500, then Gold on PC and now the newest and greatest one! Yes they finally did better with a newer game than an old one! This is one of my fav games of all. :brain: :kosta: :ok:
As for dosbox, thank goodness for it. I need to go back to their site and praise them, and VDMS too! I made up a "oldgame" folder and set it up with dosbox so the games I put in there auto go through dosbox. I cannot change skipframe and such in it. If I go straight to dosbox I can change speed and all but most game will not work as the file name has a ~1 beside it and will not load! I am still new to dosbox and I am sure it will improve. But man it is soooo great to be able to play some of the old games again. many thanks to Abandonia and HOTU! :kosta:

For all the other games, well most of tem anyway, DOS Prompt works fine except Pirates Gold and POP2. I've played all on Win98!
Yes 5t. HM a complete guide wil be fine and a great help, thanks!
I have been intending going to the soulforge site for the illustrated guide but...too old and keep on postponing :(

The sea battles are ultra-speeded, which makes me unable to play the game. How can I fix this (I run it in DOSbox)?

Sorry if this has been brought up earlier in this thread, but I don't feel like browsing through 17 pages just now... :P

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(D.K.D. @ Oct 16 2006, 10:08 PM) [snapback]261612[/snapback]</div>Ctrl+F11 as many times as necessary to reduce cycles. Once you've found the appropriate number you may edit DOSBOX.CONF to start at that number every time.

Started with Pirates...2 bootable floppies one for the game and the other for saving games, no DOS, no Windows, glorious CGA/EGA...Ah those were the days and I miss them. Graduated to Pirates Gold, and now the new Sid Meier's Pirates. BUT still nothing to beat the old MPS games! :)

I seem to remember the copy protection was very nasty on this one. If you gave the wrong answer on them jolly rogers, the game would mess itself up to the point where it became unplayable. My guess is that you'll need to remove the games, re-install it, and get the manual BEFORE playing the game. There you have all the answers.

Other than that, I don't know. Sorry.

Rather than cracked, as you say someone edited the flags' sprites to add the names, so you don't have to check the manual. This game has some bugs, although I experienced more when I played in real DOS than now playing in DOSBox. Maybe you could try with version 0.63 of DOSBox instead of the latest 0.65 and see if it plays better.

I also encountered once the bug that when leaving a town the game crashed. It happened to me only in towns without coast which I had reached by land, and only if I had sold or bought something, or hired men. So I'd say that your game can't be recovered unless you've got a previous save. My advice is that you never buy, sell or hire in non coastal towns because there's a bug that the game can't handle it, I think.

Hmmm, methinks I'm going to have to download this one - I lost hours of my childhood to the original version!

*sigh*

Good times :D

It seems you are trying to run the game in plain Windows. I strongly suggest you use DosBox instead.
You can download it here.

Didn't know there was an arcade version? If you did manage to download it then as the 5th. Horseman said you'll have to play it in DOSBox, especially if your present OS is XP :)!