This archive contains the files needed to install my Pacific General axis campaign called Diversion 1945. The campaign setting is a highly hypothetical German invasion of the United States. The campaign was assembled using Bill Haering's Camp Edit program for creating new campaigns for Pacific General. Steve Strayer's Pacific General equipment files will also be installed as part of the campaign modifications. The campaign and installation have been tested with version 1.1 of Pacific General. If you have version 1.0 and have not patched to version 1.1, you should. 

To install the program, the archive should be unzipped in a directory in the Pacific General directory, e.g. "newcamp". If your main Pacific General directory is D:\PACGEN\ then you should unzip the files in D:\PACGEN\newcamp. (data and scen directories should be on the same level as newcamp) If all of the options are installed, about 80 megabytes of free space must be available on the Pacific General drive.

The campaign is installed by running the batch program pag_inst.bat. Several options are given during the installation. 

Backup - Installation of the campaign alters files in the scen and data directories. Using the backup option will save all of the files in those directories to directories called olddata and oldscen (if you have directories with these names already, please change them before installation). This will take 40 megabytes of disk space. Unless you are short on space, the backup option is highly recommended. (Alternately, you could copy the scen and data directories to a different drive or backup medium manually). 

Install text - You need about 10 megabytes of disk space to do the installation, but the final installation will leave about the same space as you started with. This will give the proper introductory text to each of the scenarios.

Install new graphics - this will temporarily use about 40 meg of hard drive space but in the end, no disk usage will be added. The graphics replace some of the between move and scenario graphics with scenes that are IMHO more appropriate to a German campaign.


Once the installation is done, the files extracted from the archive can be deleted.

It is recommended that music be turned off while playing. In this case once the main screen of Pacific General comes up, the CDROM can be removed from the drive. This will eliminate the inappropriate Japanese narration and cut scenes. 

Diversion 1945 is copyrighted by
Fred Chlanda
March 1998
