"Shipbase III problems" Topic
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| jefferysl | 15 Oct 2008 6:23 a.m. PST |
I just purchased Shipbase III, a computer moderated set of rules from Critical Hit. SB3 is an old DOS based program, and I'm having real problems getting it to install. I've tried it on an old Windows 98 computer as well as a XP desktop (both in DOS emulation mode). I can't find any tech support on the web, just reviews. Can anyone help me out? |
| The Monstrous Jake | 15 Oct 2008 6:43 a.m. PST |
Send me an e-mail at the contact address posted on the ArmourSoft web site ( irvania.com ): irvania.com/contact.htm … and give me a description of what problems you're having, what error messages you're getting, and what sort of hardware/software/operating system you're using. D-CATR Naval, the newer prototypical Windows-based version of the Shipbase series, gave some people some problems with installation (which is one of the reasons that has held up its development), but the old DOS Shipbase III program should still work fine on a Windows XP machine. I haven't tried SB3 on a Vista machine yet, but as far as I know it works on everything earlier than that. |
| jefferysl | 17 Oct 2008 9:25 a.m. PST |
Dave,
I sent you an e-mail, but suffice it to say that with my WIN 98 machine, I get to the point where it tells me it's copying the SBASE 3 files and then suddenly gives me a READ ERROR, ABORT, RETRY, FAIL? and just gets stuck there. |
| The Monstrous Jake | 19 Oct 2008 7:25 a.m. PST |
Yup, a READ ERROR ABORT, RETRY, FAIL? message usually means there's a bad sector on the diskette. You can run Scandisk on them and that'll often fix the problem. Those disks are now over 15 years old (SB3 was manufactured in the summer of 1993) and I don't know what conditions they've been stored in over the past ten years. |
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