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I would like to announce the first release of a computer football simulation based on Big Play Football.
At the moment, this is a console/text/"DOS" style game that produces a play-by-play commentary and an end-of-game statistical summary. It's available by going to <http://bigplay.sourceforge.net/> and following the download links.

If you are running Windows, simply download the binary package (i.e. the .zip file), and extract all the files to a new directory. This was built and tested on NT 4.0; I expect it should work on any 32-bit version of Windows. To run it, bring up a console window, go to the subdirectory called 'bpfbin' and type 'BPFConsole'. You should see a list of teams. Pick one as home, one as away, and the game will rush past...hopefully you've set a big enough buffer to scroll back and look at what happened. :-) ... read more