Releases: jleonard2099/LHG_ProBB
Basketball: The Pro Game v4.38
Welcome to the open source, cross-platform retro re-release of one of the first text-based pro basketball 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 basketball, 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 4.37 that includes the following:
- Fix handling of paths with spaces
- Restore accurate rebounds and shot pacing
- Correct errors generated by some games
- Fixed issues compiling leaders for conferences and organizations
- Added display of 3FG% to game boxscores
If upgrading from a version prior to 4.37, see release notes for that version to see what's changed.
Basketball: The Pro Game v4.37e
Welcome to the open source, cross-platform retro re-release of one of the first text-based pro basketball 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 basketball, 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 4.37 that includes the following:
- Restore accurate rebounds and shot pacing
- Correct errors generated by some games
- Fixed issues compiling leaders for conferences and organizations
- Added display of 3FG% to game boxscores
If upgrading from a version prior to 4.37, see release notes for that version to see what's changed.
Basketball: The Pro Game v4.37d
Welcome to the open source, cross-platform retro re-release of one of the first text-based pro basketball 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 basketball, 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 ?
This is a simple bugfix release to 4.37 that corrects issues with some errors generated when playing games, and restores accurate rebounds and shot pacing. If upgrading from a version prior to 4.37, see release notes for that version to see what's changed.
Basketball: The Pro Game v4.37
Welcome to the open source, cross-platform retro re-release of one of the first text-based pro basketball 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 basketball, 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
- Fixed a bug causing a small % of games to freeze during auto-simulation
- League averages added for most recent years to normalize new teams to draft.
- Manually updated league averages to reflect current values.
- Adopted "OPTIONS" quick menu for in-game change of play mode / PBP delay
- Added option to have no shot clock for both testing and historical accuracy
Basketball: The Pro Game v4.32 [Revised]
Welcome to the open source, cross-platform retro re-release of one of the first text-based pro basketball 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 basketball, 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
Basketball: The Pro Game v4.30
Welcome to the retro re-release of one of the first text-based basketball 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 ?
Fixed a bug that was causing free throw attempts to be handled incorrectly. The same routine handles 2 FTAs and 3 FTAs.
Basketball: The Pro Game v4.29 [Re-release]
This re-release corrects creation of leagues, problems with stat leader compilation and FT stats tracking and reporting; 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 basketball 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 the first release that prevented human play and several different areas of stat compiling and review
Credit to Randy Dudley, the original author of the stat viewer, for letting me know where stats weren't displaying properly. I had inevitably forgot to test several features after confidently making some major changes to variable scoping early on in the development process.
Basketball: The Pro Game v4.28
Welcome to the first retro re-release of one of the first text-based basketball 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.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/jleonard2099/LHG_ProBB/commits/v4.28