How to install the PG scenarios ?

Generally I would like to say that custom scenarios for PG can only be run if you use 
the floppy version of PG. Suppose you use the floppy version, you should copy the
*.scn, *stm and the *.set files to your PG/DAT subdirectory (use only numbers 
from 1 - 39) and then replace the *.eqp and *.str files wherever they are. Sorry, but
I don't know the floppy version, so I never know where these files are located.

In the most cases you use the PG CD version. The main problem is that the CD version directly
loads the scenario data from CD and not from HD as the floppy version do.
That means that you normally can't force PG to read custom scenario (because they're 
not on the original CD). Under this circumstance you have to change your PG in that 
manner, that it works like the floppy version. 
You may contact David Smid (http://www.kolej.mff.cuni.cz/~baldrick/panzer.html) who 
maintains a really execellent site for PG players. Ask him for further informations and 
problem solutions.
There is an alternative to the way above. If you use a patched "Panzer.exe" (which is 
the main executable file for PG) you can also force PG to read the scenario data from
your HD and not from CD. The needed data you'll find on The Gamers Net site
(http://www.thegamers.net/5starframes.htm). Ask Tim Maushardt (Greetings to him !) 
what to do.

Although, I am not a beginner in the scene, I have never got this modified PG version running 
well. Maybe the reason is that I'm lazy because since Bill Haering creates a conversion 
tool which allows you to change PG scenarios into Allied General scenarios I only use all 
custom scenarios after the conversion into the AG format. This works very well. 
No changes have to be made to main files or directories. You just copy some files to
existing subdirectories. That's all !
If you own both PG and AG I recommend you to play custom scenarios in AG. You'll find 
all scenarios "ready-to-use" on my AG page.

September, 1997

Dirk Cremer
(dcremer000@aol.com)
