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ICR2: DOS setup bug

5 posts by 3 people · 26 Nov 1996 - 02 Dec 1996

Yousuf Khan 26 Nov 1996#344905
I'm having this wierd little problem with Indycar 2 on my system. I went into control options screen to change the control buttons for my joystick, so that I could have the same controls as I have it under Indycar 1. When I went in and tried to change these controls, each control is now setup as "Mouse X". I can't choose anything from the keyboard or from the joystick. And the funny thing is that ICR2 doesn't even recognize my mouse or driver and let me use the mouse at all. Has anyone experienced this? I'm using latest version of ICR2, the one that comes in a CDROM with both the Win95 and Mac version of the game included. I don't use Win95 yet, though that's on order. Maybe the Win95 version is less buggy, but this is pathetic, I just bought this thing a week ago. Another thing where is the serial number for this thing? I was trying to fill out the registration, and they said it would be at the back of my user manual...nada. Yousuf Khan -- Yousuf J. Khan Ottawa, Ont, Canada Nation's capital
ENRicks 26 Nov 1996#344906
Download the DOS patch from either Sierra, The Pits, or any other of a hundred sights. You need the file named icr101_2.exe which will upgrade your version 1.0.1 to 1.0.2. This patch: Fixes a bug where set controls automatically detects your mouse and you are unable to use keyboard or joystick controls. Fixes a yellow flag problem where the race order would become corrupted, sometimes resulting in cars illegally passing one another under the yellow. Fixes a weight transferrence bug that resulted in the driver's car understeering after driving it. If you plan on running the Win95 version, you need to down load the patch file named w95icr11.exe which will upgrade your version 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 (these version numbers have nothing to do with the DOS version numbers, so don't worry). This patch fixes numerous bugs that were reported to Sierra. Hope this is of assistance.
Quoted text (8 lines)> I'm having this wierd little problem with Indycar 2 on my system. I went > into control options screen to change the control buttons for my joystick, > so that I could have the same controls as I have it under Indycar 1. > When I went in and tried to change these controls, each control is now > setup as "Mouse X". I can't choose anything from the keyboard or from the > joystick. And the funny thing is that ICR2 doesn't even recognize my mouse > or driver and let me use the mouse at all.
Yousuf Khan 27 Nov 1996#345012
Thanks, I went onto their ftp site and download this patch. Now according to the documentation about this patch, it only works on the "hard drive" version of ICR2, not the CDROM version. I got the CDROM version. Now I'm not entirely sure how you can consider my version, since it's a full install, which I assume makes it a hard drive version, I'm not sure. Applying the patch seemed to cause a lot of error messages to get generated, but no update of the executable. Yousuf Khan -- Yousuf J. Khan Ottawa, Ont, Canada Nation's capital
Quoted text (12 lines)>>Download the DOS patch from either Sierra, The Pits, or any other of a >>hundred sights. You need the file named icr101_2.exe which will upgrade >>your version 1.0.1 to 1.0.2. This patch: >>Fixes a bug where set controls automatically detects your mouse and you >>are unable to use keyboard or joystick controls. >Thanks, I went onto their ftp site and download this patch. Now according >to the documentation about this patch, it only works on the "hard drive" >version of ICR2, not the CDROM version. I got the CDROM version. Now I'm >not entirely sure how you can consider my version, since it's a full >install, which I assume makes it a hard drive version, I'm not sure.
Yeah, they mean "hard drive *install*", so you're on the right track. Some error messages are OK, a lot may not be. (I don't have experience with that particular patch, but I assume its similar in action to the other DOS patch which I have used.) Are you sure you got the 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 for DOS patch? (There are also 1.0.0 to 1.0.2 for DOS and 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 for Win95 patches available.) Pick one or more: Model Rockets (competition-NERCB) / PCs (even Atari!) / Papyrus ICR-ICR2-NCR / Who needs a life when you have multiple non-lives?
Yousuf Khan 02 Dec 1996#345551
Quoted text (8 lines)>>Applying the patch seemed to cause a lot of error messages to get >>generated, but no update of the executable. > Some error messages are OK, a lot may not be. (I don't have >experience with that particular patch, but I assume its similar in >action to the other DOS patch which I have used.) > Are you sure you got the 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 for DOS patch? (There are >also 1.0.0 to 1.0.2 for DOS and 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 for Win95 patches >available.)
Yes, you may be right about that one. I may have gotten the 1.0.0 to 1.0.2 patch, when I really need a 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 patch. I'll go check the site again. Yousuf Khan -- Yousuf J. Khan Ottawa, Ont, Canada Nation's capital

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