                  Front Page Sports: Football Pro '95

                    Manual Installation Instructions

If you are experiencing problems with the Front Page Sports:  
Football Pro '95 INSTALL program, the following instructions will 
allow you to manually copy the game to your hard disk drive.  

NOTE:  The following instructions should be used if prior 
installation attempts have not been successful.  Before using these 
instructions, try the following troubleshooting tips:  Create a 
Football Boot Disk first.  Start the INSTALL utility and choose the 
"Make bootable floppy disk" option.  Reboot your computer with the 
boot disk in the A drive and run the Football Pro INSTALL program.  
If the INSTALL program continues to fail, use these directions to 
manually copy the game to your computer's hard disk drive.

1) Check your hard disk drive and confirm you have at least 12Mb 
(12288000 bytes) of disk space available 17Mb (17408000 bytes), or 
more if you are using a disk compression utility such as Stacker or 
DoubleSpace/DriveSpace).  Run the "CHKDSK" utility to verify "bytes 
available on disk".  Also, make sure you do not have any lost 
allocation units or other errors on the hard drive.  These errors 
may cause the game to not install correctly.  If you have errors 
on the drive, CHKDSK will report them to you (they will appear as 
the first line below the Serial Number if they exist).

If you have errors, you will need to correct them.  To do this,
you can use the CHKDSK/F command, Scandisk, or any other hard
disk maintenance utility such as Norton Utilities or PC-Tools.
WARNING -- there is a slim chance that you may lose data off of
the hard drive when attempting to correct any errors.  The chance
of data loss depends upon the severity of the errors on the drive.
Consult your MS-DOS or hard drive maintenance utility documentation
for more information.  We highly recommend you make a back-up of
your hard drive and/or back-up any important information or 
documents before attempting to correct hard drive errors.

2) Create a SIERRA directory on your hard disk's root directory and 
a FBPRO95 subdirectory within that SIERRA directory.  To do this,
type the following instructions at your hard drive prompt:

  MD SIERRA <ENTER>
  MD SIERRA\FBPRO95 <ENTER>
  CD SIERRA\FPPRO95 <ENTER>

3) Copy all the files from each disk into the \SIERRA\FBPRO95 
subdirectory.  To do this, follow the steps below:

  Insert Game Disk #1 into your A drive
  Type: COPY A:*.* C:\SIERRA\FBPRO95 <ENTER>
  Repeat the above steps for Game Disk #2, #3, #4, and #5.

NOTE: The above steps assume you are installing from your A: drive 
and installing to your C: drive.  Please substitute the appropriate 
drive letters and path if needed.

4) From the \SIERRA\FBPRO95 directory, type in the following 
commands:

  MD CUSTOM <ENTER>
  MD TAPES <ENTER>
  MD TAPES\GAME <ENTER>
  MD TAPES\USER <ENTER>

5) Now type:

  UNCHUNK RESOURCE.000 . <ENTER>  

NOTE:  Remember to include the space and a period between 000 and 
<ENTER>.

6) Use UNCHUNK again on the remaining files by typing the following 
commands:

  UNCHUNK RESOURCE.001 . <ENTER>
  UNCHUNK RESOURCE.002 . <ENTER>
  UNCHUNK RESOURCE.003 . <ENTER>
  UNCHUNK RESOURCE.004 . <ENTER>

NOTE:  Remember to type the space and a period between the resource 
extension number and <ENTER>.

NOTE:  Be sure to UNCHUNK these resource files in numerical order.  
If you make a mistake, or if the UNCHUNKed files are in the wrong 
order, you will need to erase all of the files from the 
\SIERRA\FBPRO95 subdirectory and follow steps 2 through 5 again.  
Each command will take several minutes to complete.  Wait until the 
computer has completed each operation before typing the next line.

7) After all resource files have been UNCHUNKed, you will need to
run the FBCHECK utility to verify that files uncompressed correctly.
To do this, type: FBCHECK <ENTER> After running the FBCHECK program, 
run the SOUNDSET program from the \SIERRA\FBPRO95 subdirectory by 
typing: SOUNDSET <ENTER>.  Once within this utility, select the 
"Detect The Sound Card And Settings" option.  This will automatically 
detect your sound card and embed the correct hardware settings so 
the program can play the sound effects in the game.  Soundset will 
then test the sound card by playing a series of sampled sounds and/or 
MIDI music.  After the music and sound was successfully played, 
select the "Save Changes To Resource.CFG And Exit" option.

8) Next, try to start the game.  If the game works correctly, 
delete all resource files (RESOURCE.000-004).  Consult your MS-DOS 
manual for information on how to accomplish this step if you need 
further assistance.

If you continue to experience any problems, or if you have any 
questions concerning any of the above steps, our technical support 
team will be more than happy to assist you.  See the Troubleshooting 
section of your manual for information on how to contact our 
technical support services.
