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MSWL Olmec PBEM Soccer Game GPL'ed

Posted by michael on from the corner-kick dept.

zeb writes "MSWL is one of the most popular PBEM football (soccer for North Americans) game, which is itself a variation of a game of postal soccer invented by Alan Parr in England around 1970. In this game, each manager has to organise his team, manage fatigue, train his players and trade them. Olmec is a game engine written by Alla Sellers. It helps the commissioner (game master) to simulate the games and publish the results. Allan has decided to release the source code of Olmec under the GPL, so that everyone can enhance the program. The actual version of Olmec is written in Visual Basic and uses MS Access as a database. The author suggests Olmec could be rewritten in a multiplatform language, for example Java, using MySQL as the database. This task is made easy because of the rich documentation about the game engine (PDF format)."

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  1. Reading the headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I come to the ultimative conclusion..

    what?

  2. Mirror by imadcow1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here is a mirror of the site including the source code: http://www.madcowworld.com/mirror/mswl/www.mswl.or g/mswlsoftware.html

  3. Re:Please NO Get a Life by puto · · Score: 2, Informative

    I work for a company that only writes products in Java, but writes them well.

    We have a 10,000 active customer base that users our productsts. And they all love them. As a matter of fact, one product has 5-10 million users acessing it as we speak. And it is written in Java.

    There is a shitload of bad code in Java, and there is some really tight code as well.

    I have two machines at work. A 2 gig celeron and a 366 p3 with 245 megs of ram, our java app runs eqaully on them both, as I used the 366 the past three months and had no complaints other than the graphics card which was fixed by adding a Matrox.

    Java is not perfect, but when done right it is pretty damn good.

    We have product that on p3 800 with 512 of ram supports 500 operators with about 50 concurrent connections each, and guess what, 7 of the top ten ISP's use us.

    Anything can be done poorly, and unfortunately Java got that rap.

    C is better, but J aint that bad.

    And stop being ANON. PUSSY

    Puto

    --
    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
  4. Re:Great by Gabey · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you're looking for:

    Maggie: [holds up an `Aztec' flashcard]
    Lisa: No, Maggie. Not Aztec, Olmec. [slowly] Ol-mec.
    Maggie: [falls down]

    (episode 7F22, "Blood Feud", quote courtesy of snpp.com)

  5. Re:Great by mandalayx · · Score: 2, Informative

    All the excitement of soccer without actually any of the playing.

    Yeah, who would have thought this concept would become the #1 best selling game in the UK ever?

    see Championship Manager.

    ******

    LLM, I'm doing Fiorentia Viola