Sensible World Of Soccer

[TinyT]

This was, and still is, the greatest footy game of all time. I've recently been playing the 95/96 version, a time before football became truly boring (that's right, I said it!), on my laptop, using an Amiga 500 emulator, which was part of the game download.

Anyway, the game works great and is just as brilliant as ever, but I can't figure out how to save a game and therefore the truly fantastic career mode is unplayable.

I've had a look around the net but can't seem to find any solutions so I wondered if there's any SWOS fans or computer type people here that can help. To let you know, I'm not a tech wizzard (it took me a day to find out that I can exit the emulator by pressing f4, rather than ctrl, alt, delete and task manager!) but not totally clueless.

In the game, if I go into 'Save Disk Filing', then 'Format Save Disk' it then says 'Insert Blank Disk In DFO'. This is where I get stuck. I'm on my laptop so have neither a blank floppy disk or a floppy disk drive, and I have no idea what a DFO is. I did find a folder (empty) for the game that says floppies but have no real idea what I'm doing. Do I need to make a virtual floppy disk? A virtual disk drive? Is that easy? OK, maybe I am totall clueless afterall, ha. Anyway, thanks all.

Wes.

 

[beginish]

Never tried it but I’m intrigued!

 

[Bakker1964]

Many years ago, just prior to the time the Blue Jays were winning the World Series, about a half dozen of us created a roto League for Earl Weaver's Baseball on a couple of Amigas (1500s?). We drafted teams based on a points system we created to place a value on each player in the game's database, and allotted each team a specific budget. Worked out pretty well, too. We played three full seasons, 120 games per team, before it all fell apart.

Some of those Amiga games were AWESOME.

 

[TinyT]

Some of those Amiga games were AWESOME.

Absolutely. And a lot of them were kind of cottage industry, creativity and imagination being far more important than spending and making loads of money. Just like much professional sport today, especially football/soccer.