«

Originally posted by another_guest@Nov 18 2005, 12:35 PM

Have you tried using D-Fend http://members.home.nl/mabus/dfend.htm as a front-end to Dosbox? It makes things a lot easier, including setting a different screen resolution for the game you're running in Dosbox.

Nice program, thanks.

Unfortunately it doesn't solve the problem. My screen still interferes as this window keeps popping up. It seems to be the monitor's own software that does this because it's the same kind of sign that appears if you haven't plugged the monitor in. I don't know how to configure/disable this function.

[Jack Swift]

Good game. But definitely better on Sega Genesis, in my opinion.

Originally posted by vicious@May 11 2005, 05:08 PM
Hey guys, thanks for this great game!

I seem to have a problem though. Everytime a get a mission from a governor I go to the town he asked but I don't seem to find his cousin, spy or whatever... Then I return and he is just disapointed at me! :not_ok:

Can anyone help me on that? Thanks...

The spy is usually in the bar at the doorway. Hes just a shadow and can be hard to see.

[tristanzz]

Any advice on these would be great.

1. What's your favorite trait? I've been liking the navigation now that I've tried it. Medicine would be good, too, though I wonder what the tradeoff is between having a longer career and sailing faster!

2. Health appears to decline to "fine" after a couple of years. I only squeezed in two expeditions (but they were monsters), and I decided to retire to avoid winding up in poor health. I picked up quite a few red spots in combat and I was wondering if these speed up your decline

3. Practicing fencing - I think the manual says this blows a week, but you get a higher skill in fencing after doing it a few times. Might be nice if you are waiting for the treasure fleet/silver train schedule, but again, health worries...

4. Land skirmishes - you can move both pirate units simultaneously if you hold down Enter. But what if you want to make both of them stop? You could park both of them at the edge of a forest and cream a garrison unit if it's running by to where it last saw one of your units. As it stands, though, since you can't park both units it seems better to sneak them both through the forests and reach the fort. They won't attack unless they are standing still.

5. Favorite era - mine is the Silver Empire. Huge towns, lots of galleons and war galleons laden with stuff (these ships sell for a ton of money, too). Drawback: no sloops or frigates

[Aramazon]

hey all im just curious, is this game the original to the pirates! that recently came out? If it is would that mean that everything is pretty much the same cept with better graphics in the new one? just curious.

Can't say much there, I didn't play the new Pirates!. But if the new game is about plundering the Spaniards in the Caribbean area, making alliances with either them, the Englishmen, the Frenchmen or the Dutchmen and conquering cities and more and more, then the game on this site is the same one.

[Aramazon]

haha cool, for some reason i just love the fact that i play the original of all these stupid new games that come out. Seriously they just aint the same as the good ol' dos games. Its so funny, no one in my skool even knows what DOS is, hahaha. This game is really good, i played for quite a while with it. I love how all the sid meyer's games involve score and ranks and what not. This reminds me, back in elementary school, my life dream was to become a pirate, LOL

Originally posted by Aramazon@Jan 6 2006, 06:47 AM
hey all im just curious, is this game the original to the pirates! that recently came out? If it is would that mean that everything is pretty much the same cept with better graphics in the new one? just curious.

Actually the new game (Sid Meier's Pirates) is the third in the series and this one (Pirates! Gold) is the second. The first one was just called Pirates! and it was available for the Commodore 64 and Amiga. And yes, all 3 games are very similar in gameplay- it just shows how great the game is!

[laiocfar]

There is also a fan´s made version that its a little more like the old pirates

Hey all. anyone know how to find the treasures and the lost relitives? I allways find the area thats marked on the maps, but is there any keys i need to press in order to activate the "hey pirate, way to go! you found the lost treasure of this or that" (obviously i dont know if thats whats it ganna say, but you guys know what i mean LOL) Cause all Iv been doing is walking back and forth over the area waiting for something to happen.

Also to answer a few questions, you need to be in a city in order to save the game (click space and click on the mirror area)

And the game does work in windows, contrary to popular belief. I have a windows ME pentiam 633 (kinda old), game runs fine, except sometimes on startup of the game the computer just goes on standby.No DOSbox needed.

But anywho if anyone can answer my question, that person would be so incredible cool!

thanks.