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By: danielgue

danielgue — Mon, 30 May 2011 01:14:08 +0000

Just some fun stuff: From wikipedia's "Earl Weaver Baseball" article, which was the predecessor to EWB Baseball for iPhone by Eddie: "EWB was a major hit, and along with John Madden Football helped pave the way for the EA Sports brand, which launched in 1992." Now check this funny youtube clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcw_G0oK6Ns

By: publicfarley

publicfarley — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:40:02 +0000

Thank you. A million times thank you for bringing this to iOS. I was addicted to the Amiga 500 version back in the day and always pined for this game to be brought to a modern platform. Now I can relive the glory days.

Just one request… please, please bring this to the iPad. The iPad, with its big beautiful display, is my main gaming platform now. Would love to have this game brought to Apple’s tablet.

By: agoddard

agoddard — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:17:52 +0000

Any updates? Will there be an iPad version coming out?

Thanks!

By: agoddard

agoddard — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:08:53 +0000

Love this game and still play it using Dosbox on the laptop. Was very interested in the iPhone version so I downloaded it – game play is good and it is easy to use but I’m missing the things I find great in EWB2 – namely being able to create my own leagues and custom schedules, selecting a Human managed team, creating, trading, waiving, signing players, etc. Any plans to add these to the iPhone version?

One additional ask for this version would be the ability to import/export stats and leagues so you can print stats or transfer a league.

Thanks Eddie – great to see you are still innovating the best baseball sim game ever!!

By: drksd4848

drksd4848 — Wed, 05 May 2010 04:35:26 +0000

Hi, Eddie

Wow! What a blast from the past! It’s been keeping me plenty occupied on my commute to work. It’s also interesting to see how so many current baseball games have been influenced by EWB… Bravo! I love it! A modernized version of this game would be amazing. Here’s hoping you do it.

One thing I will say, and I remember this when I played the original EWB v2 on my PC, it seems there’s a stat glitch: doubles hitters don’t hit many doubles. In fact I remember I played an entire season with the original and hardly any of the players accumulated doubles that were commensurate with the doubles they accumulated in real life… keep an eye out for it…

Also, my other critique: I remembered the physics were actually better on v 1.0 and 1.5 then they were on 2.0, and the same is true with the app.

I really do hope you make a modernized, slicker version of EWB: modern gfx, physics, detailed ballparks, etc… but even if you don’t, it’s EWB baseball is still a boat load of fun… and it was so ahead of it’s time when it was originally released. Thanks for bringing it back…

By: Eddie D.

Eddie D. — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:25:04 +0000

It’s a thought.. I’m not quite ready for that though. Even at the high price, the game is receiving a lot of criticism for not being competitive as an action or visual-video-game style game… I was hoping to keep the user-base focused on the simulation aspects by keeping the price up and that seems to have more or less worked… I may offer a pre-season discount, but I’m still just considering that.

By: Eddie D.

Eddie D. — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:23:10 +0000

Thanks for these notes… I’ll ponder the one-pitch mode option to allow you to call a play.. it’s a valid point, but only certain plays may be allowed at that moment.. but, for example, if the count goes to 3-0 with a poor hitter, might make sense to tell him not to swing!

As for the fielder’s choices (i.e. where they choose to throw the ball) and the runner’s AI, I’m hopeful to dig into these annoyances later in the season.

By: Eddie D.

Eddie D. — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:19:49 +0000

Stats are currently not accumulated for non-round robin games, but I’ll be trying to add that for the next update.

By: Eddie D.

Eddie D. — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:15:56 +0000

Starting to work on some updates now.. first one will likely be more bug fixes (I’ve eliminated most of the crashes and freezes, but there’s still a few that crop up way too often!). If you have a league file that you’d like to use and you’re willing to share it with the general playing public, let me know and I can add it to the downloadable files for now.

It’s my hope to make a more general purpose website interface… for now, the easiest way is through igiBall at http://www.bangbangplay.com.

By: glengoyne

glengoyne — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:39:50 +0000

Any news on updates? Can you load alternate rosters? Are there still plans to expand the commissioner capabilities..maybe utilizing a web interface? My friends and I drafted and managed all time rosters, and I’d love to be able to play those old teams.