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Bundesliga Manager Hattrick / Football Limited

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The game was developed by Kron Simulation Software and published by Software 2000.

About the game

Bundesliga Manager Hattrick and the English release Football Limited are classic DOS football managers built around long-term squad planning, seasonal targets, and the day-to-day logic of club management rather than quick action. Our release is aimed at players who want to launch their original copy cleanly today and continue an old career without unnecessary interruptions. Here we focus on preservation and on making the supported original editions practically usable again.

Our loader automatically detects the documented versions and bypasses the protection check of the respective original release, so the delayed copy-protection question no longer interrupts an ongoing career. We support German versions 1.3, 1.36, 1.38a, 1.39, and 2.24, as well as the English version 2.20. Before any change is applied, the loader verifies that the expected original bytes are present and only touches known executable files. This release is intended for owners of the original game, or of the original game files; no game content is included.

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Loader v1.0

DOS · v1.0 · 755 KB

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File security SHA-256 verified · VirusTotal: 0 detections

File: bmh_loader_v1.0.rar
Size: 755 KB
SHA-256: 411eac48060373ab6dc586be6d0bba3435a3e92d78af7987bb809688d40ede30
Integrity check: The file stored on DOSGAME.AT matches this hash.
Malware scan: No detection in the latest VirusTotal report. (61 Engines)

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With the matching keyfile, the waiting period in our loader/trainer is removed. Your purchase also supports our volunteer preservation work.

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Loader / Trainer Features

Key Features of this Release

A quick overview of what our release fixes, unlocks, or adds when starting and playing the game.

Bypasses the copy-protection or protection check of the supported original version.
Detects and supports documented original versions.

Orinth says

Bundesliga Manager Hattrick is one of those DOS football managers that prefers numbers, squad building, and season-long planning over theatrical fireworks. Software 2000 clearly aimed for management first, spectacle second, and that is exactly why it still has a quiet pull: every transfer, every lineup choice, every result lingers a little longer than expected. The English release Football Limited keeps the same core; MobyGames lists it as a 1994 DOS management simulation by Kron and Software 2000, and older write-ups tend to praise how well it uses the mouse and how approachable it feels for a game from this period. The delayed copy-protection prompt is a particularly cheeky bit of old-school design. It trusts the player with a whole career, then chooses a random moment many seasons later to ask a question from another era.

That is where the DOSGAME.AT loader earns its keep: the supported original versions launch more cleanly, the save career stays in motion, and the late protection check stops cutting across the middle of a long run. For owners of the original release, that is a very sensible kind of preservation, because the focus stays on keeping the game usable rather than rewriting its personality. The result is the same manager game people remember, only with less interruption between the tactics screen and the next match day.

ORINTH // ARCHIVE CHRONICLER

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Platform DOS

Archive year 2026

Developer Software 2000