Arr Matey! This Is A Thread About Sid Meir's Pirates!

[Narck]

You can download Pirates! and Pirates! Gold from http://bhlegend.cjb.net

Be sure to choose the mirror (spaceports) to download the game from.

[Lord Sigma]

Off topic here, but i downloaded Master of Orion from that site. But i can't get it to run with out 1048k extended memory. First of all what the hell is extended memory and how do i get it?

Edit: i get the feeling the answer is obvious but how does one save in Pirates gold?
[This message has been edited by Lord Sigma (edited February 24, 2000).]

[Zkribbler]

"Pirates!" is indeed a great game. It's almost impossible to find now because it's not a Windows game, but an old fashioned DOS game.

BTW: No one mentioned the little trick of, when you're attacking a far superior land force, hide a large force in some woods and then dangle a small force in front of the enemy. When the enemy chases your small unit, you pull them back through your large force, which then ambushes the blindly charging enemy. The enemy doesn't catch on, so you can do it over and over.

Has anyone played "Cutthroat?" It looks a lot like "Pirates!" but I haven't tried it yet.

[Qilue]

Lord Sigma, there are a number of ways dos allocates ram beyond 1mb, expanded and extended being the most common with expanded being mostly obsolete.

I suggest reading this thread ->

http://apolyton.net/forums/Archives/...23-008600.html

There are instructions on how to setup a win9x system to boot to pure dos.

[Sophanthro]

For saving in Pirates! Gold hit space when your in town, then point to your dresser and saved game menu pops up when you click on the dresser only works in town.
[This message has been edited by Sophanthro (edited February 25, 2000).]

[Lord Sigma]

Thats all... two more questions though.

When i engage another pirate, i am given a chance to guess which pirate it is. Then i'm thrown into battle and all my cannons are gone.... do you lose all cannons if you guess wrong?

And how the hell do i keep those mutinous bastards called crewmen happy? I plunder, i capture but they still mutiny!

[Qilue]

That question to guess the pirate is the ownership test. The flags are in the manual along with who's they are.

Montalban - A sword below a skull with two ribbons at the back with hair in the shape of roses.

Delgardo - Two figures holding hands with the one on the left normal person (military) holding his hand to his chest, the one on the right is a skeleton holding a spear.

Vasquez - Shows a person (military) with each foot on a skull with the letters ABH under the left and the letters AMH under the right and the figure is holding what looks like a dagger.

La Mancha - On the left is what appears to be a demon/devil with both arms up, the left appears to be holding a heart with the right holding a spear pointing towards a heart with three spots below that.

De Silva - Has three skulls in a row each with crossed bones below them

Fielding - Three images, left appears to be an hourglass with wings, centre is an arm holding a dagger, right is a skull on crossed bones.

Moodyford - A skull on crossed bones with a kind of triangle in the top right corner.

Holcroft - A skull above crossed bones.

Thatcher - A red (I think) skeleton.

Culliford - A profiled skull on the left looking right at a heart almost torn in half on the botton an a cresent moon on top.

Raynale - A skull on crossed bones above what appears to be two triangles touching by their apexes vertically.

De Coligny - A profile skull wearing a bandana with an earing and crossed bones below.

Le Crozat - A front facing skull with crossed swords below.

Galoise - a skull which appears to be facing down on top of a single bone.

Carriere - A skull with three single bones arranged next to it on the left, right and top with a sword below.

Vaan Ryhn - A left facing skull with a tricorn hat and a sword and bone crossed below.

Ruyters - A skull in the centre above a single bone with a heart to the right and a symbol (a circle above a triangle) to the left.

Tromper - An arm holding a sword which appears to be a scimiter.

De Vranck - On the left is a face above crossed bones and on the right is a naked person with a sword in his left arm and what appears to be an hourglass in his right.

De Graff - A simple skull with two bones on each side and a heart on top.

I hope these descroptions makes sense.

Keeping the crew happing is difficult, especially when you have a large one. Always sell cargo (food is exempt) at the first port you can and only keeping one ship helps prevent the scurvy dogs from making of with ye hard earned plunder.

[Sophanthro]

If you want to know which flag belongs to which pirates grab pirates flags file at http://www.sidgames.com/pirates/Resources.cfm

Then replace the old pirates flags pictures with these flags, and when the pirates appear there name appears above the flag, it's pretty sweet.