Mean 18 DOS Running Through the 35-Year-Old GMS Frontend - Gameplay of The Olympic Club Lake Course

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Published on May 12, 2023 3:28:01 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRAWOk0udoU

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Mean 18 (1986)

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Mean 18 is a golf simulation video game developed by Accolade and released in 1986 for the Commodore 64, DOS and Amiga platforms. The game was published by Accolade. The game's main goal is to complete a series of golf holes in as few strokes as possible. Mean 18 features a variety of golf courses, each with its own unique layout and challenges. Mean 18 was well-received upon release and was praised for its realistic gameplay and challenging course design. It's a classic game that still holds up well today and is a must-try for fans of golf simulation games.

Here are excerpts from the GMS doc files:

WHAT IS GMS 1.0?

GMS displays MEAN 18 course, saved games, and Hall of Fame
files in scrollable windows. Course and saved game files
may be selected for play/replay, and Hall Of Fame file
contents may be displayed directly on the screen. The
maximum number of course files supported by GMS is only
limited by available memory and the Microsoft QuickBasic
64K string space maximum. A rough estimate is that on a
640K machine, GMS will support a total of 2100 directory
entries (course+saved games+Hall Of Fame files). Future
versions of GMS will eliminate this limitation by using
either EMS memory if available or store string data into
numeric arrays (this would approximately triple the limit
to about 6,400 files).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank the following people who provided me
a lot of constructive feedback on GMS and GMSUTIL:

Mark McHolland, a golf addict, co-worker, and all-around
nice guy. Not long after he installed his new, shiny AT
computer with the fast 40-meg hard disk, it was 30% full
with MEAN 18 course files. It was with Mark in mind that I
wrote GMSUTIL. By far, Mark provided me with the best
feedback and constructive criticism on all these programs.
Armed with GMSUTIL, ARCH.EXE, and a Microsoft mouse, Mark
has also been a very prolific MEAN 18 course Architect.

Dave Lacey, a friend of Mark and also co-worker, whom I
sent into tailspins when I made a small, insignificant
change to GMS which prevented it from working on CGA
systems. With his overfilled 20meg HD, Dave needed GMSUTIL
a lot worse than Mark or I.

Phil Stults, Sysop of the LANS BBS in Gary, IN., friend,
attorney, golfer, gentleman, and scholar. Phil is the only
man in the civilized world with a true blue IBM 64K EGA
card. Please send in these contributions so I can buy Phil
a real EGA with 256K for his next birthday, which I will
deliver in the Lamborghini, of course.

Jim Collinge, Sysop of the Lestershire Country Club BBS in
Turnersville, NJ, another golfer, gentleman and scholar.
Jim got hooked on MEAN 18 very quickly and he may well be
the first sysop to have produced a course (LCCMEAN) with
the same name as his bulletin board (a darn good course).

As it should be, LANS and LCC will be the first two BBSs
with the production release of GMS.

GMS - Mean 18 (tm) Golf Management System - Release 1.0

GMS and its companion programs are Shareware. They may be
copied and distributed freely and if you find the programs
useful, consider sending the author a contribution. Please
refer to the LICENSE.DOC file, distributed in this ARChive.

GMS COPYRIGHT 1988 Dan Moore

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