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The Simple Way to run the game is just unzip all the disks with the
-d option into one directory, make sure you unzip the disk for your
graphics adapter last and overwrite any existing files, then run
PDCONFIG for sound, graphics, and control choices. Then you should
be ready to go, type PD to play.
BTW: you can delete the sub directories for graphics cards other
than yours as they are not needed.
The install process below works too but why bother with floppies.
Enjoy the game, there is some nice DIGITIZED speech!
- Grey Ghost
Follow these instructions to install and run Power Drift:
Prep: Get 4 360k floppies, put PD-RAW.ZIP in a TEMP directory
on your hard drive
I. Un-Zip PD-RAW's ZIP's to Disk numbers one through four
(MAKE SURE YOU USE THE -D OPTION TO CREATE SUB-DIRS!)
A. PD-RAW-P.ZIP - Power Drift Program Disk (contains
INSTALL.BAT and PDCONFIG.EXE) - Disk One
B. PD-RAW-E.ZIP - EGA Disk - Disk Two
C. PD-RAW-C.ZIP - CGA Disk - Disk Three
D. PD-RAW-M.ZIP - MCGA Disk - Disk Four
II. Install Power Drift
A. Put disk one (Program Disk) in your floppy drive and
type "INSTALL d1: d2:" where d1: is the floppy drive
letter and d2: is the hard drive letter.
NOTE: The installation is a simple batch file, so pre-
sumably, the d2: could be d2:\dirname because it
will otherwise install Power Drift into d2:\PDRIFT
which may not be your organization scheme. Try it
out yourself.
INSTALL.BAT will place all the files in the necessary
directories and leave you in d1:\dirname\PDRIFT and tell
you to type PD to run it. Don't.
III. Configure Power Drift
A. Type PDCONFIG and hit return. Use the f-keys to select
what your system configuration is closest to. As a note
of advise, the MCGA mode won't work on VGA cards unless
they suppost MCGA (I'm pretty sure of this, but I forget
how I got MCGA mode to work on the PS/2. It does work
though.)
IV. Run Power Drift
A. Type PD and hit return. Enjoy.
Notes: Don't forget to delete the stuff in your TEMP directo-
ry, since it will take about one and a half megs to keep around.
Also, this game seems to take an enormous amount of RAM, so run
it in over 512k systems with nothing else in memory or bust the
640k wall. (640k systems can't have much taking up memory ei-
ther.)
You're friends at RAW and the Lake Of Dreams BBS
POWER DRIFT RELEASED BY RAW ACTIVISION WARES ON 5-28-90
(ZIPs updated 6-1-90 - re-released 6-2-90)
(I Think it was 6-11-90 when these were finnaly released)
I know this RUNME.BAT file is a little weak, but we have had this
game for 2+ weeks and i just wanted to get the information out
quick, besides you don't download these files to see the neat
screens from the groups do you, although some of them have been
preety good recently, INC especially. But oh well, enjoy the game it
gets boring fast as do almost all games.
- Grey Ghost