I was also a huge Pirates fan on the old C64, that and Bard's Tale. Sadly it looks like my PC won't be able to handle this new version (or RTW, for that matter).
So either I upgrade as soon as I have the money (yeah right) or wait for the likely XBox version of Pirates (since they made it for the Sega, they will probably do an XBox version, and I've heard rumors to that effect).

Arrr matey