First post, by Gopherman
First off, I'm pretty new to DOS gaming (grew up with Macs, only just now getting into other/older systems) so please excuse any dumb newbie mistakes I may be making.
I recently got a retro gaming PC (Pentium 4/Win98) and, since I'm a huge Doctor Who fan, got a copy of Dalek Attack to play in DOS mode. It installed just fine, and I was able to play it once, but now every time I put the floppy in the drive and run the exe, DOS gives me an error message saying "cannot load file ascii.dat" I've deleted and reinstalled the game multiple times, re-copied the ascii file from the floppy multiple times, and even replaced the ascii file in my install folder with one from myabandonware.com - all to no avail. I've also tried playing the game directly from the floppies, and while that gets me through the intro, it always crashes when I try to actually start the game. Does anyone know what might be causing this, and what (if anything) I can do to fix it?