ReadMe for Diamond Dreams version 3.2.4
For DOS 5.0+, Windows 3.1+


INTRODUCTION
Diamond Dreams Baseball is a sophisticated statistics-based simulation of the Baseball Experience: hard hitters and slap hitters, speed demons and slugs, death-defying defense and hands of stone, over-powering pitchers and over-powered pitchers, injuries, trades... and it happens to be a lot of fun, too.


INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE
ddreams3.zip - the game files which includes:
	AUTOMAKE.EXE	BASEBALL.EXE
	BASEBALL.OPT	BBOPTS.EXE
	BBSCHED.EXE	BBV30.ERR
	BBV30.EXE	BC402RTL.DLL
	CAUSES.OPT	DDRMS.FRG
	DRAFT.EXE	DRAFT.OPT
	ENVIRON.OPT	MGRUNRPT.EXE
	POSTGAME.EXE	QSHOW.EXE
	RTM.EXE		SEED.BBG
	SERIES.OPT	STPOST.EXE
These files are the executables which run the game.
Also included:
	\reports - 140 report files
	ddmanual.htm - the instruction manual in HTML form
	ddmanula.txt - the instruction manual in text form
	ddreadme.txt - this file

FEATURES
All of the following features are included in the basic game:
Diamond Dreams Baseball enables you to play stat-based baseball simulations one of four ways:  face-to-face, computer vs. human, computer vs. computer, or a replay version which can replay all or part of a season in a short amount of time, depending of course on your machine speed and your operating system.

The statistics program enables you to keep track of the statistics for your league, including importing stats from other users so that leagues can be played around the country or around the world!

A report generator, which allows you to display or print league leaders and includes over 30 pre-defined reports.

The auto-manager, which can be used to play human vs. computer, computer vs. computer, or replay games.  The auto-manager can be used to create custom-made managers for use on your computer.  It can also be used to make managers for league use.  You can make up a manager which will behave just like you and mail it to other league members so that your team will run just the way you want it to!


INSTALLATION
If you are running any version of Windows, unzip the files using the appropriate version of WinZip for your machine.  A shareware version of WinZip can be found at:
http://www.winzip.com/winzip

If you are running Windows or DOS, appropriate shareware versions of PKZip can be found at:
http://www.pkware.com/download.html

When you unzip the files, make sure that you preserve the folder/directory structure (in WinZip make sure that the "Preserve folder names" button is checked; in PKZip make sure that the "Create Directories" button is checked in Unzip Preferences").  If you are using the DOS version of PKUNZIP, use the -d option (PKUNZIP DDREAMS3.ZIP -D).  The default directory to unzip the files to is C:\BASEBALL.  When you are done, you should have a directory structure that looks like:
C:\BASEBALL
	REPORTS
		

HOW TO REACH US
If you need help with any aspect of the game, we can be reached by the following ways:
PHONE:	In NJ: (732) 866-1881
   Outside NJ: (800) 288-5526

E-MAIL:	ldambrosa@compuserve.com
	cklug@earthlink.net
	ddnicholson@earthlink.net

INTERNET: http://www.diamonddreams.com
MAIL:	Diamond Dreams
	25 Broad Street Suite 248
	Freehold, NJ 07728
