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Article #506Re: MS-DOS 6.0 and Formula 1 Grand Prix
From: apo... Andrew Powell
Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 01:10
Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 01:10
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ls...@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr D J Plows) writes: > O.k. here's my problem. I've just upgraded (if that's the >word that applies here) to MS-DOS 6.0. When I try to run Formula 1 >Grand Prix (its got a different name in USA) the title screen comes up > and then an error message appears which reads 'bad or missing f1gpdatb.dat >file'. Well the files there and even after re-installing the game I still get >the same error. Anyone out there have the same problem. If so > how did you fix it. (P.s I'm running the modem update version) > Thanks in advance > Dave Hi Dave, I installed the international version of F1GP, with no problems! And afterwards installed DOS6 with no problems. I suggest you run chkdsk on the drive with F1GP. If no errors are found, then check the installation disks. If this does not work and I presume you are not using doublespace, then check that you have enough memory! From here I have not got the faintest idea to go! I hope this helps, Andrew Powell apo...@gucis.gu.cit.edu.au
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!sdd.hp.com!network.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!griffin!citadel!gucis!apowell From: apo...@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au (Andrew Powell) Subject: Re: MS-DOS 6.0 and Formula 1 Grand Prix Message-ID: <apowell.737860242@citadel.cit.gu.edu.au> Sender: ne...@citadel.cit.gu.edu.au Organization: Griffith University. References: <1td3ueINN6j0@leiden.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 01:10:42 GMT Lines: 24 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit