NFL Challenge issue resolved
Shrunken screen capture of NFL Challenge (to prove that I did it):
The exact error message is: Can't open a:pbp.nfl
Before this message, we learn that the computer is looking for a team disk and a program disk. So, let's make a disk that will act as both the team and program disk! Here's how:
The nfl.zip file that you downloaded from Text-mode.com contained a single folder inside it called NFL. Inside the NFL folder are three team/program folders to choose from: 84, 89, and Greats. To make a floppy with the team and program files, you must select all of the files in one of these three folders (depending on which season/scenario you want to use) and copy them to the root of your floppy, meaning A:\pbp.nfl, etc. NFL Challenge is looking for some files on the root of the drive, which means you can't just copy the Greats folder to your floppy, for example. You must copy the contents inside the Greats folder over to your floppy. Or, alternatively, you can copy the contents to the root of your C: drive (hard drive), but that's kind of messy and I prefer the floppy option, especially because you can have three floppies, one for each season.
There is a one-time configuration thing that runs through the first time you run NFL Challenge, and one of the questions it asks is the drive on which to look for the team and program files. If you selected the A: drive but now you want to use the C: drive, or vice versa, just delete the whole NFL folder, download and unzip the NFL.zip file, which contains the NFL folder, place the NFL folder where it used to be, and then run the program again.
An important note: if you are running the game through DOSBox (and I'd recommend it because of the frameskip/slowdown ability), you must mount the A: drive if you are using a program floppy. Do this by typing:
mount a a:[backslash]
at the DOSBox prompt. Apparently the real backslash is an escape character in blogs.
The exact error message is: Can't open a:pbp.nfl
Before this message, we learn that the computer is looking for a team disk and a program disk. So, let's make a disk that will act as both the team and program disk! Here's how:
The nfl.zip file that you downloaded from Text-mode.com contained a single folder inside it called NFL. Inside the NFL folder are three team/program folders to choose from: 84, 89, and Greats. To make a floppy with the team and program files, you must select all of the files in one of these three folders (depending on which season/scenario you want to use) and copy them to the root of your floppy, meaning A:\pbp.nfl, etc. NFL Challenge is looking for some files on the root of the drive, which means you can't just copy the Greats folder to your floppy, for example. You must copy the contents inside the Greats folder over to your floppy. Or, alternatively, you can copy the contents to the root of your C: drive (hard drive), but that's kind of messy and I prefer the floppy option, especially because you can have three floppies, one for each season.
There is a one-time configuration thing that runs through the first time you run NFL Challenge, and one of the questions it asks is the drive on which to look for the team and program files. If you selected the A: drive but now you want to use the C: drive, or vice versa, just delete the whole NFL folder, download and unzip the NFL.zip file, which contains the NFL folder, place the NFL folder where it used to be, and then run the program again.
An important note: if you are running the game through DOSBox (and I'd recommend it because of the frameskip/slowdown ability), you must mount the A: drive if you are using a program floppy. Do this by typing:
mount a a:[backslash]
at the DOSBox prompt. Apparently the real backslash is an escape character in blogs.
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