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The X-Files Hints

Want more Save Game slots?

  • This hint from a fellow gamer on CompuServe will give you more spots to save games!

    Hold down the shift key when you select either Save or Load.

    Be sure and save your new games with the .x extension.  (The file names do not have to be typed in all capital letters.)