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Front Page Sports: Football Pro '97
Demo Version 1.0 Release Notes
Table of Contents
A Features not available in this Demo version
- The Play Editor
- The Player Ratings Editor
- League Play
- Game Length
- MultiPlayer Play
- Reduced Animation and Sound quality
B Getting Started
- System Requirements
- What is Virtual Memory?
- Installation Path
C Windows 95 Compatibility
- Installing The Game To Your Hard Drive
- Running The Game
- Screen Savers
- Task Swapping
- Removing The Game From Your Hard Drive
D Troubleshooting
- CD-ROM Troubleshooting
- SCSI Drivers
- Problems with Movies (AVIs)
F Miscellaneous
- Additional Command Line Options
G Hardware Manufacturers
H Additional Support
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A Features that are unavailable in this Demo
The Play Editor
Football Pro '97 has a sophisticated Play Editor that allows you to
create virtually any type of offensive or defensive scheme. You can
build customized playbooks by creating all-new plays or by modifying
some of the over 10,000 plays included with the game. After you have
created a play, you can test its effectiveness by practicing it against
a variety of opposing formations on the Practice Field. Once the play
is perfected, the Game Plan Editor allows you to assemble your plays
into opponent-specific Offensive and Defensive Game Plans. In addition
to customizing the plays you can also personalize how the computer will
use your them by modifying one of the stock coaching profiles. Each
profile consists of over 2500 game situations in which you can decide
what happens.
The Player Ratings Editor
Football Pro '97 includes a Player Ratings Profile Editor that lets
you reassign player ratings based on your own criteria. You may edit
any of the eight ratings for any position and, from the Pro Bowl Screen,
edit and apply Pro Bowl player selection criteria. The Formula screen
allows you to create a formula for the rating, while the Results screen
allows you to see how players are ranked and to assign new ratings based
on one of four distribution curves. When you are satisfied with the
results, you may save the new ratings to the original league or to a
newly-created league. You may also go the View All Ratings screen to
edit the ratings for individual players. In addition , you can save any
formulas you create into a Player Ratings Profile. You may create
formulas to establish each individual rating for each position. For
example, you may create a QB strength formula, a Defensive End agility
formula and so forth.
League Play
Football Pro '97 offers you the choice of competing in the default
NFLPI 1996 (30 teams) league or building one or more new leagues of your
own. The full version includes six career leagues filled with players
who are members of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA). In addition to
the NFLPA leagues there are several other fictional player leagues of
varying sizes (8,10,12,18,28). Over the course of a season players and
teams will accumulate statistics in over 1500 available categories. At
the end of a season players will age and possibly retire. When starting
a new season you have the option of dumping all of the players into a
common draft pool. Each team can then draft players one at a time to
fill out their rosters. A Free agent draft is also available at the
beginning of each season. After the draft your players are run through
training camp where you can allocate training time for each position.
You might want your running backs spending training time on wind sprints
to increase their speed while having the Defensive backs spend time
watching game films to increase their intelligence. It is all up to you
take your team to the championship.
Game Length
This demo version allows you one quarter of play (5-15
minutes). At the end of the first quarter it will return you back to
main menu.
MultiPlayer Play
MultiPlayer play has been disabled in the demo. The full version of
Football Pro '97 supports head to head games over a LAN or modem.
Internet play is also available over the Sierra Internet Gaming System.
Reduced Animation and Sound Quality
The full version of Football Pro '97 offers 16 angles of animation
rotation and 22Khz sounds. This demo limits the animation to 8 angles of
rotation and 11Khz sounds.
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B GETTING STARTED
System Requirements
Football Pro `97 requires the following minimum machine configuration:
Required:
486 DX2 66MHz or better processor
SVGA color monitor
VESA Local Bus video card with at least 1MB RAM
Windows '95
Mouse
Double Speed CD-ROM drive
Hard Drive with:
30 MB free (Minimum Install)
124 MB free (Partial Install)
270 MB free (Full Install)
8 MB RAM
12 MB Virtual Memory and 30 MB disk space free (after install)
during game play.
Recommended:
Pentium processor
16 MB RAM
Quad Speed CD-ROM drive
One or two joysticks
Sound Blaster or 100% Sound Blaster compatible sound card.
What is Virtual Memory?
Virtual memory is a method that uses disk space to supplement
your machine's RAM. When Football Pro `97 is running, it creates a
file on your hard drive (known as a swap file) which is used to store
information when there is not enough available RAM. The size of the
swap file is equal to the virtual memory requirement (12 MB) minus the
amount of available RAM. Systems with more RAM will have smaller
swap files created. The swap file is deleted automatically when you
quit Football Pro `97.
Due to the swap file requirements of Windows 95, you will need at
least 30 MB of free disk space on the drive where your swap file
resides, or Football Pro '97 will get errors allocating memory.
Installation Path
Football Pro '97 MUST be installed in a directory named
\SIERRA\FBPRO97 for all features to function properly. It is not
important on which physical drive (C,D etc.) it is installed, but it
MUST be installed off the drive's root directory in \SIERRA\FBPRO97.
Examples:
C:\SIERRA\FBPRO97 (good)
D:\SIERRA\FBPRO97 (good)
C:\FBPRO97 (bad)
C:\FOOTBALL (bad)
C:\GAMES\SIERRA\FBPRO97 (bad)
Should you install Football Pro '97 to a directory other than
\SIERRA\FOOTBALL you may have problems when using custom data (game
plans, plays, profiles, etc.) or when playing multiplayer games.
In addition, Football Pro '97 cannot use game plans that include
plays saved to floppy disks, or stored in the EXTRA directory on the
CD. These plays should be kept in the \SIERRA\FBPRO97\CUSTOM
directory.
To use the plays in the EXTRA directory, copy the plays you want
into your \SIERRA\FBPRO97\CUSTOM directory. With Win95 Explorer,
select these files and right click to bring up the short menu.
Pick "Properties" and toggle the "read only" file attribute box
to the off setting.
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C WINDOWS 95 COMPATIBILITY
Installing the game to your hard drive
Football Pro `97 supports the Windows 95 Autoplay feature. Follow
these steps to install and run the game under Windows 95:
1) Start Windows 95.
2) Insert the Football Pro `97 CD into your CD-ROM drive.
3) If the game has not yet been installed, you will be asked if
you wish to install it. To proceed with the installation,
click "Yes".
4) Follow the on-screen directions to complete the installation
process.
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