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Front Page Sports: Football Pro '97
Demo Version 1.0 Release Notes
2/17/97
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CALL 1-800-757-7707 TO ORDER Frontpage Sports Football Pro
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)
E Miscellaneous
- Additional Command Line Options
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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
THE DEMO REQUIRES 31 MB for installation
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.
Note: If Autoplay has been disabled on your system you will need
to double click on the CD-ROM icon in your MY COMPUTER folder.
Running The Game
Football Pro `97 is designed to start automatically when you
insert the CD-ROM into your CD drive. When you insert the CD, you
will be asked if you want to start the game; click on "yes" to run the
game.
Note: If Autoplay has been disabled on your system you will need
to double click on the CD-ROM icon in your MY COMPUTER folder.
You may also start the game by selecting it from your Start Menu
under the SIERRA group. If you wish to launch the game using some of
the optional command line parameters, create a shortcut for HIKE.EXE
and edit the properties to include the options you want.
Screen Savers
Some screen saver programs may interrupt Football Pro `97 and
prevent it from continuing afterwards. We HIGHLY recommend that you
do NOT use any screen saver programs while playing Football Pro `97.
This includes the Windows 95 screen savers.
Task Swapping
We recommend that you quit all other applications prior to
running Football Pro `97, or you may experience game lock-ups or other
problems. When Windows 95 is focused on Football Pro '97, it will not
allow sounds for other applications to play. Football Pro '97 will
perform best if no other applications are open in Windows 95.
Removing The Game From Your Hard Drive
To remove the game from your hard drive, open the Sierra folder
in the Windows 95 Start Menu, Select "Setup & Uninstall". This will
start the Sierra Setup program that will allow you to uninstall any
Sierra product. Select Uninstall from the main menu. Choose FPS:
Football Pro '97 from the list. All of the original Football Pro `97
program files will be removed.
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D TROUBLESHOOTING
CD-ROM Troubleshooting
If you are experiencing "CDR-101 Read errors" or are
experiencing random lock-ups, then make sure you are using the latest
CD-ROM drivers and the correct version of MSCDEX.EXE for your
revision of MS-DOS. To verify that you are using the correct device
drivers in your CONFIG.SYS file, contact your CD-ROM drive
manufacturer. To verify that you are using the latest version of
MSCDEX.EXE, please examine the chart below:
MS-DOS 5.0 Users....................Use MSCDEX 2.21 or above
MS-DOS 6.0 Users....................Use MSCDEX 2.22 or above
MS-DOS 6.20-6.22 Users..............Use MSCDEX 2.23 or above
Windows 95. ........................Use MSCDEX 2.95 or above
NOTE - MSCDEX 2.22 is included with MS-DOS 6.0, and MSCDEX 2.23
is included with MS-DOS 6.20-6.22. To update from an older version of
MSCDEX, simply copy the updated file from the DOS directory into the
directory where you are loading MSCDEX. For more information, please
refer to your CD-ROM hardware manual or contact your CD-ROM drive
manufacturer.
SCSI Drivers
If your system is equipped with a SCSI hard drive, you will need
to make sure that you are loading the appropriate SCSI driver in your
CONFIG.SYS file. For additional information or instructions on how to
accomplish this task, please refer to your hard drive or SCSI
controller documentation or manufacturer.
Problems with Movies (AVIs)
Some users may see vertical black and white lines and a message
"Video not available" when the program tries to play movies (AVIs).
This indicates that the Windows95 Media Player is not properly
installed. (This player is normally installed with Windows 95, but
you may have chosen not to install it to save disk space.) This does
not affect game play, but you may correct the problem by installing
the Media Player from your Windows 95 disks. (For information on
installing Windows 95 components, consult your Windows 95
documentation.)
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E MISCELLANEOUS
Additional Command Line Options
Option Effect
-l Save a log of all play-by-play information. A weeks
worth of games will be appended to a single file if you
are simulating league games. The PLAY.LOG file will be
deleted at the start of a new weeks worth of games.
-f Print all output to a text file called PRINT.OUT. You
can view the file with any ASCII text editor.
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Direct Sales Information
U.S. Direct Sales
Sierra Direct PHONE:
7100 W. Center Rd STE 301 Main: (800) 757-7707
Omaha NE 68106 Hours: 7AM to 11PM CST, Mon-Sat;
8AM to 9PM CST, Sundays
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(c)Copyright 1996, Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Front Page Sports and Front Page Sports: Football Pro are registered
trademarks of Sierra On-Line, Inc.
MS-DOS and Windows 95 are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation.
Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster Pro are registered trademarks of
Creative Labs, Inc.
Pro Audio Spectrum is a registered trademark of Media Vision, Inc.
Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
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INFORMATION HEREIN WILL WORK WITH ANY OR ALL COMPUTER SYSTEMS.
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CONSEQUENTIAL, FOR THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN,
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HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE PRODUCTS, LOSS OF WARRANTIES, OR LOST
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