Hello,

I know this is a few years late, but I ran into the same issue. Maybe it´s been solved already.

Got a copy of the game and tried to install, got the message about too many installations. Ran a chkdsk on the disk and noticed there was a hidden file, "install.sys", so I removed the hidden attribute(yours was apparently not hidden) and looked to see if it said anything interesting, but just garbled ansi-text. Anyways, after some fiddling I made a copy of the disk and deleted the "install.sys" file from that disk, then it worked like a charm. But it does want a serial number when installing, which I luckily had. Plus the copy protection is a pain... But it does seem like you´re missing a file on your disk, should be a "pd.zip" file too.

Hopefully that helps someone looking for the same issue.

Wait, the game has a "DRM" that it limits the number of times it can be installed from the floppy? 😳

If so, how lame 🙁

Does the game ask to remove write protection during installation, or can the install limit thing be circumvented by keeping write protect on during installation?

Something like that, not sure how it works. The disk was copy protected when I started(that could have been a coincidence), so tested without it being protected, same problem. But while searching I saw that the Amiga version had something similar about it needing to be not copy protected, but never looked deeper into it. But very strange copy protection system, makes you wonder how many times is too many. Just checked the new copy I made, and it had created the install.sys hidden file on that disk now. Pretty easy to work around it though.

I´m sure somebody smarter than me(I?), could check the install.sys file with a hex-editor or something and figure out how it works.