The dongle attached to this computer is of the wrong format. E6Golf will now exit in E6Golf 1.6

The dongle attached to this computer is of the wrong format. E6Golf will now exit in E6Golf 1.6

This is a license issue that displays when the game first boots up if a dongle has been plugged in, but is incorrectly formatted. This can happen if:

  • A dongle without E6 data has been plugged in (for example, a dongle from another game)
  • The dongle has been corrupted with bad data.

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