Diamond Mind Baseball 8

version 8A

company: Diamond Mind, Inc. (www.diamond-mind.com)

homesite: www.diamond-mind.com

Fixes and improvements in this patch

The following list describes most of the corrections that have been 
made in this patch. In addition to these items, we have also cleaned 
up a few other things that have been reported by only a few 
customers, such as making sure the tab sequence on certain dialogs 
is correct, handling some error conditions more gracefully, and 
fixing a few glitches in the play-by-play commentary. 


Bugs fixed in the version 8A patch:

- multiple copies of the baseball.ini file were being created in 
different folders 

- unable to install season disk from path with embedded spaces

- able to manually draft a player before draft order frozen

- innings pitched not set correctly when creating pitchers or 
modifying their event tables; this also caused invalid event table 
data to be store (see below for important information about how to 
ensure that you end up with correct event tables for these pitchers)

- player creation crashed if you failed to set the role, batting 
hand or throwing hand on the first page

- schedule generator window didn't fit on the screen at 640 x 480 
resolution 

- draft settings were not being displayed correctly when viewed 
after initial draft creation; this could cause draft picks to be 
incorrectly renumbered if picks were deleted later

- layout of the free agent reports in the draft window was improved

- attempt to play a scheduled game crashed if an Organization 
existed but didn't yet have a valid schedule

- you can now insert a reliever in a DH game using popup menus

- attempt to mark players as ineligible is now handled correctly

- lineup selection window now displays the number of times a 
reliever has been warmed up (for use when the bullpen warmup rule is 
in effect)

- when starting an exhibition game, changing the database of the 
home team didn't update the selection of the home park

- the wins and losses for post season games are now correctly 
updated in all cases

- switch hitters were not moving to the other side of the plate when 
a relief pitcher was inserted (affected the display only, not the 
generation of play outcomes)

- pitch counts for fatigue purposes are now correctly displayed on 
the Status tab of the player profile window

- the game was crashing when users attempted to generate certain 
reports for all teams in an Organization

- register reports now sort correctly on the Team column when free 
agents appear in the report

- age column added to pitching register reports

- tactics buttons incorrect after viewing lineups at end of game

- some Transfer commands (exporting league statistics) would fail if 
you had not yet assigned a schedule to your league or organization



Correcting event tables for pitchers
Prior to installing the version 8A patch, when you created a pitcher 
or modified the pitching event table for a pitcher, using either the 
Overall or Left/right method, DMB8 was incorrectly creating the 
event table for that pitcher. As a result, any pitchers that you 
created or whose pitching event tables you modified prior to 
installing the version 8A patch, will not perform according to the 
statistics you entered for them.

NOTE: This bug does not affect (a) players on any season disks that 
we have created, (b) pitchers that you may have created in prior 
versions of DMB and then converted to version 8, (c) batters that 
you have created or modified, or (d) pitchers that you may have 
modified in other ways -- basic player info, pitching statistics, or 
ratings -- besides the pitching event table.

After you have installed the version 8A patch, you can generate 
correct event tables for these pitchers without having to re-enter 
their stats and ratings. To do so, open the Organizer window, and 
select each player, choose the Modify pitching event table command, 
make sure the right options (era, park, creation method) are 
selected, then click OK to re-generate the event table using the 
stats you previously entered.

We are very sorry about this error. We know that player creation is 
a time-consuming process, and we regret that our mistake has caused 
you to take even more time to revisit those players to ensure that 
they are created correctly.
