MSWL Olmec PBEM Soccer Game GPL'ed

Posted by michael on Sunday July 27, 2003 @12:45PM 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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Re:And there was a time... by dtfinch · 2003-07-27 13:18 · Score: 5, Interesting

If you don't like that, this is sure to piss you off:

http://home.att.net/~r.jarrett/bNES.html

It was the first release quality, full speed NES emulator to be written entirely in Visual Basic.

I contributed most of the graphics and sound code, but stopped working on it during v1.3, and the author has since rewritten large portions of it, fixing some major bugs but introducing many new ones in the process.