I just got my APBA Baseball 5.75 disk in the mail last yesterday. I’ve already quickly installed it on my laptop but haven’t had time to play around with it much.
In the next couple days, I’ll give it a stress test and by the weekend I’ll write up my thoughts in a complete review.
Has anyone else received it and tried it out?
Thomas Nelshoppen
I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically
Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA.
I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as a frequent participant of the Chicagoland APBA Tournament. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.
I’ve installed it and immediately began setting up a replay with the 2011 season disk that is included. I’ve noticed several major bugs after getting all the rotations and lineups set for every team (what a process!). It seems to me that pregame AIM auto substitutions is not working correctly. The system keeps auto substituting relief pitchers into the starting role. Also after completing a trade I was unable to insert the recently acquired player into the lineup — the entire app would crash. My workaround for this was to adjust the lineup from within Advanced Draft. The good news? Gameplay seems rock solid.
Very entertaining and runs well. Except I’ve found it impossible to play a multigame series between two teams. I set up the series according to the help file but the series won’t start. I can play a single game only.
Apparently the series option has a bug that prevents it from operating. There seems to be a work-around, but it’s clunky.
I have been playing the computer game for years and am anxiously awaiting my copy (hurry up Canada Post!.)
I am a little concerned about the bugs but, other than that, I find it soooooooooo easy to play. I have not had a chance to forward the details but i have managed to complete 15 seasons (1969-1983) with complete career stats over the past 9 years.
I honestly did not think anyone played the dice game anymore until i started reading the blog
“I honestly did not think anyone played the dice game anymore until i started reading the blog”
Hi Adam,
It’s interesting how each of us perceive the game of APBA. Dice APBA is all I’m exposed too :)
Don’t get me wrong. I see the attraction of computer APBA. It’s quicker, easier and doing stats is much easier and more complete. Plus playing long-distance online is a possibility. Add to that the simulation “experiments” that could be done at the drop of the hat.
But for some of us, holding the cards and rolling the dice makes us feel more in control of the action. I realize it’s only a perception but remembering back to the older APBA computer games, I felt like I was just repeatedly pressing the Enter key and watching a baseball game on my screen.
Now, how is that any different than rolling two dice and referring to pieces of cardboard? Not much in the grand scheme of things, I suppose.
Quick response to Thomas. I did play the dice game for years (approximately 1978-1990) but since the mid-80s I have been a solo player and have found that the computer game works for me. I think the play by play is great and I love the stats side of it. Since I play on my lap top its portable so I can watch tv with my wife and not bother her.
Bottom line I guess we are saying the same thing–I love APBA and after 34 years of playing it I can’t imagine that I will ever stop.
Adam,
I’ll be giving 5.75 the big test tomorrow. I doubt I’ll be giving up the bones but who knows. ;-)
I have loaded it into Windows 7 and migrated all of my Virtual Machine XP files. Migration went fine and game works fine. I have found that the stadiums come up with a different resolution so I am changing the placement of scoreboard, lineups etc. Changing the scoreboard and the play result boxes under “Font” to “Narrow” frees up space.