Full Count Baseball v6.91c

Welcome to the open source, cross-platform retro re-release of one of the first text-based baseball simulations.

Once highly sought after by sports fans in the DOS days, this version has been revived from the original source code and processed by a modern compiler for speed to match today's computers.

Relive your favorite season or era of pro baseball, without all the physical exhaustion of having to play yourself.

NOTE: it is normal to receive a "virus warning" in Windows as a result of SmartScreen features. You can safely ignore this.

What's New ?

The primary focus of this release was continued consistency across all games, and taking time to fix all known major issues. At the same time, the underlying code has continued undergo improvements, which help make it more legible and understandable.

This specific release is a bugfix release to 6.91 that does the following:

• Fix handling of paths with spaces
• Corrected batting order for innings so that games weren't skipping teams
• Corrected handling of variables so human play options were correct

If upgrading from a version prior to 6.91, see release notes for that version to see what's changed.

Full Count Baseball v6.91b

Welcome to the open source, cross-platform retro re-release of one of the first text-based baseball simulations.

Once highly sought after by sports fans in the DOS days, this version has been revived from the original source code and processed by a modern compiler for speed to match today's computers.

Relive your favorite season or era of pro baseball, without all the physical exhaustion of having to play yourself.

NOTE: it is normal to receive a "virus warning" in Windows as a result of SmartScreen features. You can safely ignore this.

What's New ?

The primary focus of this release was continued consistency across all games, and taking time to fix all known major issues. At the same time, the underlying code has continued undergo improvements, which help make it more legible and understandable.

This specific release is a bugfix release to 6.91 that does the following:

• Corrected batting order for innings so that games weren't skipping teams
• Corrected human play options

If upgrading from a version prior to 6.91, see release notes for that version to see what's changed.

Full Count Baseball v6.91a

Full Count Baseball v6.91a

Welcome to the open source, cross-platform retro re-release of one of the first text-based baseball simulations.

Once highly sought after by sports fans in the DOS days, this version has been revived from the original source code and processed by a modern compiler for speed to match today's computers.

Relive your favorite season or era of pro baseball, without all the physical exhaustion of having to play yourself.

NOTE: it is normal to receive a "virus warning" in Windows as a result of SmartScreen features. You can safely ignore this.

What's New ?

The primary focus of this release was continued consistency across all games, and taking time to fix all known major issues. At the same time, the underlying code has continued undergo improvements, which help make it more legible and understandable.

This specific release is a bugfix release to 6.91a that does the following:

• Corrected batting order for innings so that games weren't skipping teams

Plus, all the benefits of the initial release!!!

• In-game boxscore viewer / editor is back!!!
• Game and menu input options no longer have double ?'s
• NUM LOCK and CAPS LOCK no longer mess up the Drive Configuration screen
• Expanded Leaders and Standings can now be Updated / Viewed as separate actions
• Change global schedule settings reads in assigned values, not arbitrary defaults
• Improved summary of rules changes at opening game options
• Re-arranged options screen for games for consistency and improved flow
• Team select during game makes it clearer which side you're choosing
• Removed obsolete feature for modifying replay stats
• Re-organized menu to take after other games
• Fixed League Leaders to qualify batters with 3.1 PA/G (was using 2.5)
• Game will notify you if important source files are missing
• Significant improvements to calculating park attendance using historical averages
• Improved outline and flow of opening options menu; some of your favorite options may have moved!
• Reversed values on game options to reflect binary (0 = No, 1 = Yes).
  • You will have to redo your default settings for all games.
  • You will have to edit old schedules (use the "Make Global Changes" option)
  • Updated "community" schedules are also being provided on Google

Full Count Baseball v6.91

Welcome to the open source, cross-platform retro re-release of one of the first text-based baseball simulations.

Once highly sought after by sports fans in the DOS days, this version has been revived from the original source code and processed by a modern compiler for speed to match today's computers.

Relive your favorite season or era of pro baseball, without all the physical exhaustion of having to play yourself.

NOTE: it is normal to receive a "virus warning" in Windows as a result of SmartScreen features. You can safely ignore this.

What's New ?

The primary focus of this release was continued consistency across all games, and taking time to fix all known major issues. At the same time, the underlying code has continued undergo improvements, which help make it more legible and understandable.

• In-game boxscore viewer / editor is back!!!
• Game and menu input options no longer have double ?'s
• NUM LOCK and CAPS LOCK no longer mess up the Drive Configuration screen
• Expanded Leaders and Standings can now be Updated / Viewed as separate actions
• Change global schedule settings reads in assigned values, not arbitrary defaults
• Improved summary of rules changes at opening game options
• Re-arranged options screen for games for consistency and improved flow
• Team select during game makes it clearer which side you're choosing
• Removed obsolete feature for modifying replay stats
• Re-organized menu to take after other games
• Fixed League Leaders to qualify batters with 3.1 PA/G (was using 2.5)
• Game will notify you if important source files are missing
• Significant improvements to calculating park attendance using historical averages
• Improved outline and flow of opening options menu; some of your favorite options may have moved!
• Reversed values on game options to reflect binary (0 = No, 1 = Yes).
  • You will have to redo your default settings for all games.
  • You will have to edit old schedules (use the "Make Global Changes" option)
  • Updated "community" schedules are also being provided on Google

Full Count Baseball v6.67 [Revised]

Welcome to the open source, cross-platform retro re-release of one of the first text-based baseball simulations.

Once highly sought after by sports fans in the DOS days, this version has been revived from the original source code and processed by a modern compiler for speed to match today's computers.

Relive your favorite season or era of pro baseball, without all the physical exhaustion of having to play yourself.

NOTE: it is normal to receive a "virus warning" in Windows as a result of SmartScreen features. You can safely ignore this.

What's New ?

The primary focus of this release was for a consistent experience across all games. All games should look, feel and operate the same across the many routines and utilities. This consistency also applies to the underlying code - which has now been fully documented.

Lastly, this release corrects several minor bugs discovered shortly after the previous release. At this stage, the only place to take the games is forward with new features and fixes for 'legacy' quirks.

• First builds for Mac and major Linux distributions
• Updated manual includes documentation for all game and menu features
• All code documented and further modularized
• Improved flow and order of team input for smoother experience
• Implemented universal team and file selection routines
• Screen displays formatted and colored consistently with other games
• Error screens more consistent and centered in position
• Removed all hardcoded 8 character file restrictions
• Game score summary now has period headings for each team

Full Count Baseball v6.65

Welcome to the retro re-release of one of the first text-based baseball simulations, revived from the original source code!

Once highly sought after by sports fans in the DOS days, relive your own past and that of the sport, without all the physical exhaustion.

Readme and manual included in file. Team files will be needed to play. Seek them out at the Lance Haffner Sports Sims group on Facebook.

What's New ?

Finally, the release that everyone deserved the first time around!!

• No more games freezing! Corrected routine for handling corrupt PBP data
• Fixed several other issues with PBP display
• Corrected issues with handling BA / FA in several areas (incl. Boxscores)
• HITS for Home team in GFX mode now displays correctly
• Creation of default file now uses valid month (4 = April)
• Fixed issues assigning positions in the starting lineup

Full Count Baseball v6.62 [Re-release]

This re-release corrects some minor UI problems and stat leader compilation; if you downloaded before 2/4/2023 then you will want to update

Welcome to the retro re-release of one of the first text-based baseball simulations, revived from the original source code!

Once highly sought after by sports fans in the DOS days, relive your own past and that of the sport, without all the physical exhaustion.

Readme and manual included in file. Team files will be needed to play. Seek them out at the Lance Haffner Sports Sims group on Facebook.

What's New ?

This release corrects all issues with PBP for human play for the first release Also addressed countless areas of stat compiling and review that were not functioning accurately.

NOTE: If the game appears to freeze on you, it is a known issue. You will have to restart. I have tracked several items with debugger to no avail. It has about a 3% chance of occuring

Full Count Baseball v6.61

Welcome to the first retro re-release of one of the first text-based baseball simulations, revived from the original source code!

Once highly sought after by sports fans in the DOS days, relive your own past and that of the sport, without all the physical exhaustion.

Readme and manual included in file. Team files will be needed to play. Seek them out at the Lance Haffner Sports Sims group on Facebook.

NOTE: If the game appears to freeze on you, it is a known issue. You will have to restart. I have tracked several items with debugger to no avail. It has about a 3% chance of occuring