This patch upgrades IndyCar Racing II for DOS version 1.0.0 to version 1.0.2. It is recommended that you apply this patch to a clean installation of IndyCar Racing II. You MUST apply this patch to a full installation if IndyCar Racing II. When you reinstall IndyCar Racing II, you must select the "Complete Installation" option. Failure to do so will result in errors while patching. This patch contains several batch files that will help you to apply the patch without losing your setups, replays and saved races. The recommended steps to upgrading IndyCar Racing II are: 1) save your current setups, replays and saved races 2) reinstall IndyCar Racing II from the CD-ROM 3) apply the patch 4) restore your current setups, replays and saved races Note that the patch and its batch files MUST exist in the main directory where you installed IndyCar Racing II. This is the directory that contains the INDYCAR.EXE file. 1) Saving your current setups, replays and saved races You should first save away any settings files, replays and saved races before applying this patch. You can use the batch file SAVEALL to save your settings, replays and saved races. You use SAVEALL like this: SAVEALL directory where directory is an empty directory that you create that will hold the saved information. 2) Reinstall IndyCar Racing II Remove IndyCar Racing II from your computer. If you installed using the Windows 95-based installer, you should use the Add/Remove Programs control panel in Windows 95 to uninstall IndyCar Racing II. Otherwise, just delete your IndyCar Racing II directory from your hard drive. NOTE: Deleting your IndyCar Racing II directory will delete the patch and its batch files. Make sure you have saved away PATCHICR.ZIP to another directory before deleting your IndyCar Racing II directory. After you have removed IndyCar Racing II, reinstall it from the CD-ROM. After you have reinstalled IndyCar Racing II, you will need to re-unzip the patch in the IndyCar Racing II directory. 3) Apply the patch To apply the patch, change directory to the IndyCar Racing II directory and run the PATCHICR batch file. If, for example, you installed IndyCar Racing II to the \ICR2 directory on your C: drive, you would use the following commands: C: CD \ICR2 PATCHICR NOTE: The PATCHICR batch file and the patch data files MUST reside in the IndyCar Racing II directory. 4) Restore your setups, replays, and saved races. Once you have applied the patch, you can use the batch file RESTALL to restore the files you saved with SAVEALL. You use RESTALL like this: RESTALL directory where directory is the same directory you specified to SAVEALL.