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[TheMUBM]

I recently broke out FBPro 98 and at first everything seemed ok. I was able to go into the game, play a quick match and what not. Still a great game and it brought back a lot of memories.

But when I went to create my own league it locked up and gave me an error. Now everytime I try to load it gives me a shell error.

I am running Win 7 Ultimate 64bit. I did see where someone suggested running it using something like VMWare. I looked at the VMware website, not so sure i understand how to use it.

Anyone that can help me on this? Either to get FBPro to work or to work vmware or something similar?

[SportsGuy53]

Ok It happened to me.. I found out That when You make a New league DONT change the title.. Dont make it lets say The NFL LEague or in my Case Phils NFL League... Just leave it as it is...

[TheMUBM]

Well I am wanting to create multiple leagues. But besides that, how did you ever get it to load again? It wont load for me now, I keep getting a league creation error.

[SportsGuy53]

You can only do one league at a time.. Now to start over, Just get out of the game altogether and then click on it again and start a new league but remember when it asks what do you want to name your new league,, just leave it as it says "NewLeague"

[TheMUBM]

You do not understand. When I try to load the game, before it ever even makes the intro screen I get an error now about a league not loading. I cant even load the game at all.

Also, in the past, on old machines with older versions of windows I generally had 10 to 12 leagues at once. I figure if there is a work around with Windows 7, it should work as well.

[SportsGuy53]

Ok, Not sure what to tell ya except maybe trying to restart your PC..?

[TheMUBM]

Well thanks for trying to help anyway. If anyone else knows a way around this and a way I can use win 7 to play the game, please let me know.

I have tried dosbox, says game can not be run in dos. I have tried WIN XP virtual machine and it just eats up my system resources and doesnt allow me to do anything.

[Skyboxer]

Well last night I installed mine fine and downloaded a 83-94 (i think that was the years) league. Man it brought back memories. My(91Redskins) first game is vs the 87 Redskins. Lol
Anyways I mainly did play edits and some practice games getting the CAMS the way I wanted.
Really miss not being able to print rosters and stats in these console days
Only thing I'm having problems doing is running the 1.08 patch. It just wont run.