ant
November 5th 05, 11:16 PM
Hi,
I bought a flight sim game called Overlord (by Rowan Software,
distributed by Virgin, a 9 floppy disk set, 3 for game and 6 for svga)
from a charity store, and am trying to install it on my PC. The
instructions say to insert disk 1 of 3 and type 'install' but when I
look at the floppy it has no such file (see dir appended below). I am
definitely using disk 1 of the 3.
I've tried unzipping the rowan.001 but winzip does not recognise it
(asks for the end disk even after I give it).
I gues some weirdo deleted the install.exe
Does anyone have the same game and can they email me the install.exe?
ANOTHER weirdie is that my PC (pentium 1 circa 1996) does not read
(these or all) floppies -just discovered. I am using my office PC to
analyse the disks. Even there, the Windows program, while it dirs a:
ok, claims the files are not there when I try to open them. Perhaps
they are just corrupt?
Nevertheless I live in hope
If anyone has the game and can help, I'd appreciate it.
Cheers,
Ant
>dir a:
Volume in drive A has no label.
Volume Serial Number is FA00-0000
Directory of A:\
13/07/1994 16:28 4,002 READ.ME
04/08/1994 15:44 1,415,687 ROWAN.001
17/04/1995 15:50 <DIR> C
2 File(s) 1,419,689 bytes
1 Dir(s) 0 bytes free
>dir a:\c
Volume in drive A has no label.
Volume Serial Number is FA00-0000
Directory of A:\C
17/04/1995 15:50 <DIR> .
17/04/1995 15:50 <DIR> ..
17/04/1995 15:51 4,002 READ.ME
17/04/1995 19:29 32,768 COMMAND.COM
2 File(s) 36,770 bytes
2 Dir(s) 0 bytes free
I bought a flight sim game called Overlord (by Rowan Software,
distributed by Virgin, a 9 floppy disk set, 3 for game and 6 for svga)
from a charity store, and am trying to install it on my PC. The
instructions say to insert disk 1 of 3 and type 'install' but when I
look at the floppy it has no such file (see dir appended below). I am
definitely using disk 1 of the 3.
I've tried unzipping the rowan.001 but winzip does not recognise it
(asks for the end disk even after I give it).
I gues some weirdo deleted the install.exe
Does anyone have the same game and can they email me the install.exe?
ANOTHER weirdie is that my PC (pentium 1 circa 1996) does not read
(these or all) floppies -just discovered. I am using my office PC to
analyse the disks. Even there, the Windows program, while it dirs a:
ok, claims the files are not there when I try to open them. Perhaps
they are just corrupt?
Nevertheless I live in hope
If anyone has the game and can help, I'd appreciate it.
Cheers,
Ant
>dir a:
Volume in drive A has no label.
Volume Serial Number is FA00-0000
Directory of A:\
13/07/1994 16:28 4,002 READ.ME
04/08/1994 15:44 1,415,687 ROWAN.001
17/04/1995 15:50 <DIR> C
2 File(s) 1,419,689 bytes
1 Dir(s) 0 bytes free
>dir a:\c
Volume in drive A has no label.
Volume Serial Number is FA00-0000
Directory of A:\C
17/04/1995 15:50 <DIR> .
17/04/1995 15:50 <DIR> ..
17/04/1995 15:51 4,002 READ.ME
17/04/1995 19:29 32,768 COMMAND.COM
2 File(s) 36,770 bytes
2 Dir(s) 0 bytes free