From: mcdonald@skorpio.usask.ca (Shane McDonald)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball.fantasy
Subject: Re: Strat v4 Review Wanted
Date: 21 Jan 1993 20:40:05 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: skorpio.usask.ca

In article <1993Jan20.085941.748@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, jmkerrig@vela.acs.oakland.edu (KERRIGAN JOHN M) writes:
|> I have recently started playing the computer version of Strat-O-Matic
|> baseball and am completely amazed by the complexity of this game.  I have
|> read in this group about the introduction of version 4 of SOM in less than
|> a month.  Since I am away at school, I do not get to read the
|> advertisements which are sent to my house by SOM.  I would appreciate it
|> if anyone who has information about the improvements which will be
|> available in the updated version could post or e-mail me with this
|> information.  I cannot imagine how they could make this game any better.

Direct from S-O-M's mailing:

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VERSION 4.0 COMPUTER BASEBALL GAME - IBM ONLY

  New this year, and hot off the presses, is the latest version
of our wildly popular computer baseball game.  Version 3.0 has been
heralded as the best computer baseball game on the market.  Unbelievably,
our 1993 release, Version 4.0, is significantly superior to Version 3.0.
Version 4.0 is here and it's about to take the industry by storm!  With
over 100 changes and additions to Version 3.0, the game is now in a
league by itself.

  New features include a VGA game screen (*@+) [ legend found below ]
which really livens up the display.  Included are 16 color 640 x 480
images of all 26 major league parks.  Your "season ticket" is located
in the upper deck behind home plate!  In this graphic mode you even
choose to see the pitcher throw the ball and the batter swing away.

  "Draft-O-Matic" (*) is our new computerized drafting tool.  Now you can
run a draft league with as little as one participant.  The computer will
draft for all the other teams!  Programmed to draft a balanced team that
will use the home ballpark to maximum advantage, it will prove to be a
solid GM.  It's a great tool that's sure to add to your enjoyment of
the game.

  If you're into radio style play-by-play then you'll love our new adjustable
script (*+) feature.  You get to select the level of script you want
displayed, from a brief description to a detailed description of the play.

  Other notable features are a Fringe Player Creation Module (creates a
simplified version of a card image for players with few at-bats or
innings pitched), an Encyclopedia Function (*) to view your player's
Strat-O-Matic career totals, Enhanced Out of Town Scoreboard (*)
with access to detailed accounts of the out of town games, a Schedule
Creation module and a Schedule Print module, ability to manually
re-create a game from a scoresheet (great for mixed leagues), numerous
improvements to the stat package, ability to display a boxscore or
play-by-play report for the game in progress and many, many more features.

  Version 4.0 will require more free memory than it's predecessor.  You will
need 640k with approximately 570,000 bytes of available conventional
memory in order to run this game.  You can check your free memory with the
DOS chkdsk command.  The last line listed ("bytes free") is the available
conventional memory.

Legend: * Hard drive required
        @ VGA monitor required
        + High-density disk drive required

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  Strat-O-Matic is anticipating release of the new version by late
February.  Hope this is what you were looking for!
--
Shane McDonald                                       mcdonald@cs.usask.ca