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MSWL Olmec PBEM Soccer Game GPL'ed

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. Am I the only one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That has no idea what the topic means just by looking at it? "MSWL Olmec PBEM Soccer Game GPL'ed" Okay, Soccer Game GPL'd is about all I know.

  2. Boring... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  3. Re:Inside #GNAA! FUCK THE GNAA! THE GNAA IS GAY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The gnaa needs to fucking die! /tl0rr

  4. Re:North Americans? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Canucks and spics have different problems.

    First off, you have that Miguel Ximian prick.

    The canucks have hockey sticks up their ass.

  5. Re:Inside #GNAA! FUCK THE GNAA! THE GNAA IS GAY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *** penisbird was killed by felix {complements of #freebsd}
    *** gaydar was killed by felix {complements of #freebsd}

    Now, THAT's comedy.

  6. Re:Inside #GNAA! FUCK THE GNAA! THE GNAA IS GAY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sure is! Whenever someone gets "compliment" and "complement" mixed up, I just can't stop laughing.

    Anyway, FreeBSD is a great operating system despite this tragic incident, so don't worry about it. Many independent sources have concluded that FreeBSD is extremely stable and wonderful.

  7. Championship football by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I always liked Tecmo Superbowl for the SNES.

    The horizontal scrolling was a bit confusing at first but once you got the hang of it it was almost as fun as Bomberman.

  8. Please ignore this post... this post is a test.... by Uber+Banker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  9. Re:Please ignore this post... this post is a test. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    IT'S ALL THE 1'S THAT DOES THE TRICK. LOWERS THE RATIO ENOUGH.

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  10. Re:Popularity of play by email football.. by aleph+ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good heavens, there's still someone on the planet who considers it appropriate to use the word "gay" perjoratively. How very quaint and schoolboyish.

  11. Cycling doesn't require upper-body strength. by leftie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I tell you what...you tell Lance Armestrong he's gay and then when he's done, I'll squegee what's left of you onto a stretcher.

    1. Re:Cycling doesn't require upper-body strength. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Cyclists don't have good upper body strength and they intentionally try to not build upper body strength more than is needed to just remain upright easily. I think cycling is quite interesting, but please. Even I could put the smack down on Lance.

    2. Re:Cycling doesn't require upper-body strength. by leftie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Someone who doesn't have the courage to even post their own id on a message board could never stand up so someone with the courage, stamina and pain threshold of Lance. He'd just absorb blows until your arms got tired, then backkick you for the entire month of August.