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Re: Battle Isle

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From: ew... Bruce McEric
Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 04:28
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lan...@cbnewse.cb.att.com (steve.j.langevin) writes:
>   I just saw and bought Battle Isle by UBI Soft (dist. by EA) today.
>   I bought the 3.5" disks.  My system is a 386/20MHz with 4MB RAM
>   and running DR DOS 6.0.

>   The game installed just fine and looks interesting, BUT it won't
>   let me select a computer opponent.  Everything else works EXCEPT
>   that.  Has anyone else come across this?  Is there a way around
>   this?  Please let me know ASAP before I give these guys a call
>   and really ream them for releasing a game with such an obvious
>   problem.  Yes, the box did say 1-2 players and the docs say you
>   can select HUMAN or COMPUTER opponent.  I even tried installing
>   the EGA version, but the same thing happened.  
>   
>   Thanks in advance!

You need to change the map name.  I don't have it in front of me, but
check the "Quick start reference Guide" (I think that's what it's
called).  It's explained there...

--Ewok!
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