2006 All-time Greatest Players Disk Patch
Last updated: August 17, 2006
Using the link at the bottom of this page, you can download a patch for
the 2006 All-time Greatest Players Season Disk. The patch is not a complete copy of the disk;
it is a program that applies the changes to a copy of the AGP disk
that you have already installed on your computer.
Please read this page to learn more about what the patch does, how to
know whether you already have the corrections, and how to download and
install the patch.
Scope of the changes
On August 17, 2006, we updated our master copy of the 2006 All-time Greatest Players Disk to
correct some error and passed ball ratings, the short names for two players (Parrish,Ln and Parrish,Lr were reversed), and the roles for four dual-role players (Buffinton, Radbourn, Stivetts, Jim Whitney).
The incorrect error and passed ball ratings belong to some of the players who appeared on the 2003 edition of this disk and were still active after the 2002 season. Their ratings were left unchanged from the values on the 2003 disk instead of being updated to reflect that additional playing time. Only a handful of these changes will have any meaningful effect on game play; the vast majority changed by such a small amount -- less than one error or passed ball per season -- as to be almost unnoticeable.
You may not need to do anything. The best way to find out is to
check the date of the agp2006 file on the CD or email message we sent you. If the date of your file
is 8/17/2006 or later, you already have the corrected version.
If you received the previous version, you have two options:
(a) request a free update,
(b) download and apply the patch (see below)
The free update option makes sense if you haven't already started any
projects using the original version of the season disk. The patch is the
best option if you have drafted a league or started a season and wish
to preserve those results.
Downloading the patch
When you download the patch, it is saved on your hard drive in the location
that you specify. Before you apply it, you'll need to make sure it
is stored in the folder into which you installed Diamond Mind Baseball
-- that's c:\dmb8 or c:\dmb9 if you accepted the default
location, something else if you chose to install the game elsewhere. It
doesn't matter whether you download the file directly into that folder
or download it somewhere else and move/copy it there later.
Before you apply the patch
If you plan to apply the patch to a DMB database in which you have invested
a lot of time -- playing games, migrating a league, making roster moves,
running a draft -- we recommend that you take the precautionary step of
using the Backup command on DMB's File menu to save your database. It's
always a good idea to back up your files from time to time, and it's an
especially good idea when you are about to run a program that makes changes
to those files.
Applying the patch
To apply the patch, find the downloaded file -- it's called agpfix06v8.exe
or agpfix06v9.exe -- using Windows Explorer (or some other tool
for browsing your hard drive). Make sure this file is in the same folder
into which you previously installed the Diamond Mind Baseball game.
If it's not there already, move or copy it there now.
NOTE: If you try
to run the program from a location other than the DMB game folder, you'll
get an error message indicating that a DLL couldn't be loaded or a different
message indicating that it was unable to find the BASEBALL.INI file.
When you are ready to apply the patch, use Windows Explorer or My Computer
to find the DMB game folder and then double-click on the agpfix06v8.exe or agpfix06v9.exe file to start the process.
You'll see a
window that displays a list of all of the DMB databases that are in version
8 format. (The version 9 edition of the patch lists databases in version
9 format.) To make the corrections, select the database from the list
and click on the "Make corrections" button. If you have installed
the 2006 All-time Greatest Players Disk more than once, do this for each of those databases,
one at a time.
We built some important safeguards into this patch program:
- if you select a database that has nothing to do with
the 2006 All-time Greatest Players Disk, it will tell you that it couldn't find any matching
players and therefore did not apply any changes
- if you accidentally apply the patch to the same DMB database more than
once, no harm will be done
It takes only a second or two to make the corrections, and the patch
program displays a "successful completion" message when it is
done.
Download links
Version 8 edition (agpfix06v8.exe,
92 KB, posted 8/17/2006)
Version 9 edition (agpfix06v9.exe,
148 KB, posted 8/17/2006)
Free updates available on request
To request a free update, call us at 800-400-4803 (9am-5pm Pacific time,
Mon-Fri) or send email to info@diamond-mind.com.
We apologize for these errors and for the inconvenience.
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