Posted By
Noro
on 2000-03-16
|  Maybe a Netscape problem
I don't know, if this is your problem, but I experienced the same problem when I tried to download the games with Netscape (after the pages became Netscape-friendly).
The problem is: Netscape thinks, that .prg files are text files and performs the ftp-like conversion of LF to CR+LF, so every $0A in a program is converted to $0D$0A, the file also becomes larger.
Obviously such a game won't work.
Unfortunately, I did not (yet) find a possibility to say netscape that these files are binary
(I tried to tweak with 'Applications' and MIME-types - application/x-plus4-program, but without luck).
So the only possibility I know (and use) is to download with Internet Explorer.
You could also try a DOS-to-UNIX conversion tool, which converts $0D$0A back to $0A.
A general solution ( by Lando  ) could be to pack all games in zip-files, which Netscape handles correct.
I hope, this helps.
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