Zephyr Net

Win98
August 12 2003 at 8:19 AM lisa (no login)



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Recently found a copy of the old dos janes atf game. From 1996. I am having problems installing it on a pentium 3 computer with win98. Not sure I have followed the instructions for installion, but have had no luck.

I get the screen to install but it is not the one described in the manual.

Seems to install but game does nt run. I am not sure If I am missing a driver or something. I realize this game is from 96 and I am trying to run it on a newer computer so I am thinking that I am missing something.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Did you install the 1.02F patch (found at http://takeoff.to/Centurian/)?

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What you really want for either USNF or ATF,
is the "Gold" version patch (may be v1.14 ?? from memory) I.E.
ATF Gold patch
These where copies they sold most recently and are Win 95 compatible.
But the patch for these versions will update any version of ATF or USNF respectively.

Check here ...

http://www.patches-scrolls.de/

http://www.game-revolution.com/download ... s/pc/a.htm

http://www.pcgameworld.com/downloads.php/dltype/5/

http://go.to/gamefix

Otherwise you can run them in DOS like the old days.

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"cool beanz"
D. "FETCH" Jordan

So this is an ATF or USNavy Fighters question?

Don't ask me no questions,
and I'll tell ya no lies.

from initial post ...

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"cool beanz"
D. "FETCH" Jordan

With Win98 you're in relatively good shape for a DOS game as you still have config.sys and autoexec.bat. If it doesn't work in the MS-DOS prompt you can try restarting in MS-DOS mode, or editing the shortcut for the program to restart with custom config.sys and autoexec.bat settings. Right click on the shortcut and there are tabs and settings to configure. Basically you want it to make it restart in MS-DOS mode and theres boxes to chekc to use your config.sys and autoexec.bat. IIRC Windows kind of has some check boxes to make this easier but it can be confusing if you've never used DOS. Ahhhh the good old days.

Zephyr

Hey Zeph ....
want to buy some DOS boot 3.5's real cheap
LOL

The good ole days, they ARE gone forever ...

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"cool beanz"
D. "FETCH" Jordan

I have an old ATF Dos version that I was never able to make run... I still have the original CD, but it was totally incompatible with my 98 dev system...

I have still never seen this game run...

Continue your DOS experiments.
OR .......
Check out this string it might help.

http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/mes ... 1061320379

Or as stated before you can get the ATF Gold patch here also.
I have tossed out my old ATF CD, but the 1.14 version USNF is the WIN 95' compatible version, and should be same for ATF but I personally can't test it.

http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/dp.cgi?lang=eng& ... s=pc&cap=j


from ATF GOLD PATCH read me .........


III. CHANGES AND ADDITIONS


*** PATCH 2 ***

This latest patch primarily addresses compatability problems
with Windows 98

- Multiple fixes for DDRAW problems for Diamond and
Matrox drivers that have problems switching from 16 or
24bit into 8 bit graphics mode.

- Win98 fix for mouse (on a multi-monitor system you could
move the mouse off the game screen easily .. causing the
game to minimize).

- Win98 exception handler fix (Win98 deals with processor
overflows and underflows differently causing the game to
occasionally crash).

- Fix for OSR2 and OSR2.1 versions of Win95. Small fix to
the way a host connects. A bug in the latest versions of
Win95 causes a Host not to find a Joiner if the Host is
the last one in the game.

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"cool beanz"
D. "FETCH" Jordan

ANyone have a functional version of ATF up and running right now?