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- Football Fanatic Help
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- This is a general document created after we received requests for help. It
- was created in order to help both you and us in trying to determine what the
- problems may be and the quickest way to help you.
- If you are able to solve your problem using this document, please let us know.
- It is very important to us to know that a solution to your problem has been
- found.
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- The following below assumes that you are in DOS operating system and have the
- compression PKZIP utility installed. Consult your Operating System's
- documentation about the DOS commands used. PKZIP can be obtained from
- PKWare's website at www.pkware.com, please read its documentation carefully.
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- Football Fanatic Installation problems:
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- If for some reason you are experiencing problems installing Football
- Fanatic from the floppy disk supplied using the INSTALL program:
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- 1. Create a directory in which you wish to install the game
- Ex: "MD \GAMES\FOOTY"
- 2. Enter the directory created
- Ex: "CD \GAMES\FOOTY"
- 3. Copy the FF-REG.EXE file from the floppy disk
- Ex: "COPY A:\FF-REG.EXE"
- 4. Run FF-REG.EXE to decompress the files
- 5. When asked if you wish to overwrite a file answer "Yes"
- 6. Run FF.EXE to play the game
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- If you encounter any run-time errors or CRC checksum failures
- contact us at footy@thunderbear.com right away.
- We also suggest you run Norton Utilities Disk Doctor or similar
- program to attempt to repair any files that may have been damaged
- or corrupted.
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- Unzipping Files for Football Fanatic
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- When we supply patches or add-on files, they are usually in ZIP
- format. This is used to compress files in order to reduce transfer
- times and space. In the examples the file is called FF-DATA.ZIP.
- Follow the following steps:
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- 1. Enter the directory into which you have downloaded the ZIP file
- Ex: "CD \APPS\NETSCAPE"
- 2. Copy the file into your Football Fanatic directory
- Ex: "COPY FF-DATA.ZIP \GAMES\FOOTY"
- 3. Enter the Football Fanatic directory
- Ex: "CD \GAMES\FOOTY"
- 4. UnZIP the file
- Ex: "PKUNZIP FF-DATA.ZIP"
- 5. When asked if you wish to overwrite a file answer "Yes"
- 6. Delete FF-DATA.ZIP
- Ex: "DEL FF-DATA.ZIP"
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- Manually Copying Files
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- There has been some confusion about copying NAM files to be used with
- the Data-File Editor. By this we mean that you make a copy of
- DEFAULT.NAM under a different name.
- Ex: "COPY DEFAULT.NAM MY_NAMES.NAM"
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- Games Crashes After Intro Screen
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- This is due to low memory. Usually happens if you are running the
- game in a DOS box. Make sure that the settings allocate at least
- 2 Megs of RAM for the game. If you are using Windows 3.1 or Windows
- 95, try to exit the operating system and boot to DOS.
- If the problems persist try running Football Fanatic with
- "FF MEMLOW" or "FF VERYLOW". This will reduce the memory requirements
- of the game.
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- Still Have Problems?
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- If you still have questions or problems, please contact us via
- e-mail at footy@thunderbear.com. When reporting a problem please
- include the following:
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- - What exactly you were trying to do.
- - What went wrong and any error messages displayed.
- - Which steps were successful in the above examples.
- - What operating system you are using.
- - The specs of your system (cpu, RAM and devices installed).
- - If Football Fanatic has worked fine before.
- - How comfortable you are with DOS.
- - Have you properly installed PKZip.
- - If you can receive files by e-mail or if you have web-access.
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- This will aid us immenselly in quickly determining what the problem
- is and how we best can assist you.
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