Re: Scott Free problems


20 Feb 1995 16:12:30 -0800

mlkuehl@students.wisc.edu (Mariann Kuehl) writes:
>I downloaded the DOS version of Scott Free, unzipped it and compiled it using
>Borland C++. No problems.

scott.zip includes an MS-DOS executable, BTW.

>I also downloaded a *.GZ file of the old Mysterious Adventures series (which
>claim to be for use with Scott Free) and uncompressed it. I now have a file
>titled MYSTERIO which contains the source code for these games, but I just
>can't figure out how to execute them using Scott Free. I keep getting a
>"Invalid Database <Bad Header>" message.

The original file was mysterious.tar.gz, you still need to unTAR the
seperate files. Standard UNIX command, or I can e-mail "tarread"
for MS-DOS.

They do work, hope this helps!

jlodoen@shell.portal.com