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Styles Make Fights If you are a boxing fan, you have undoubtedly heard that saying, which serves as the foundation of this game. There is a great deal of truth in those three words and Legends of Boxing is designed to bring that fistic chemistry to life. Designer's Notes One aspect that I wanted to capture in this boxing simulation was a feel for a fighter's style - his tendencies from round to round. With Legends of Boxing, I wanted fighter's styles to merge into certain types of action. That is the single biggest difference in this game and any that have come before it. The fighter's strategies, or modes, are an integral part of a his ratings in this game, reflecting his tendency to be defensive, fight from the outside, brawl on the inside, or "walk down" and pressure his opponent. I have played many hundreds of bouts with LOB since 2000 and I still enjoy it as much today as any other sports game I own. Perhaps even better, is that I have enjoyed sharing my hobby with hundreds of other gamers all over the world. Legends of Boxing is available free via download as my expression of gratitude to the sports gaming community. Several fellow gamers have contributed greatly toward making LOB better than I had even anticipated, see the list of contributors below. Feel free to contact me with questions or comments about this game. Enjoy the game! Gary
Brown
LOB Contributors: Programming for LOB for Windows - Bill
Salm Fighter Ratings - Bill Salm, Rocco Del Sesto (Cardmaker), Ron Arnst, Jim Chaffin, Mike Schnepp, Tom Gerbasi, Keith Higdon Web Hosting - Jeff Downey Playtesters: Career Campaign Supplement - Nigel Ward Getting Started You will need to following :
Downloads: Click on the links below to begin downloading
game files. The contents of each download is
described. Fighter ratings are provided as a seperate
download, because they are occasionally revised and
expanded. Legal Notice: Legends of Boxing is
protected by copyright law and is made available
for personal entertainment purposes only. Any sale
or redistribution of this work without the author's
expressed written consent is strictly
forbidden. Legends of Boxing for Windows 2005 This download is a compressed installation executable which will self-extract and install LOB 2005 on your PC. The download is 3.3 MB and after installation, the game is nearly 15MB. This new version is completely up-to-date with the table top game, including Career Mode options, built-in ratings editor and much more. Many new fighters have been rated as well. This has got to be the best free PC game you are likely to find anywhere. NEW! LOB for Windows Fighter Ratings Update (05/15/05) These self-extracting data files will be installed to the LOB-2005 folder by default. When prompted for the destination folder, you can designate a different folder (temp) to install them to. This way they won't be installed to the LOB-2005 folder and they won't overwite the current data files (in case someone added their own fighters to these files). In order to use any of these data files, they must eventually be placed in the LOB-2005 folder. Recommendation: Do not add any fighters to the all-time data files because if any changes are made to the ratings (in the all-time files) and new data files are posted, they will overwrite the original (all-time) files and you'll lose any fighters that you added or edited.
LOB for Windows 2005-Patch and Upgrade (Updated 05/16/05) This download fixes all the known problems and expands the game with a number of improvements too. Tremendous job by Bill to address all of this with a single upgrade! Here's a list of what's been done in the patch: 1. All buttons are disabled except for
the "active" button. a) The mode for each fighter is
selected All of these options can still be set manually. 15. There was a conflict with the Save Commentary feature that caused the following error when trying to open a data file: "Unable to find database all_time_XXX.mdb" By eliminating that error, I had to make a slight change to the procedure to save the commentary. While viewing the Commentary Log, choose save from the menu. A pop-up box will prompt you to type in a name to save the log file as. Once you hit Save, the log will be stored in the "Com Log" folder which is located where LOB is installed to. The Com Log folder is included (in the patch) and will be installed when the patch is installed. All saved commentary logs will be stored in the "Com Log" folder. Thanks to all of the LOB gamers who provided helpful feedback and suggestions!
Legends of Boxing - Table Top Game (v2.5) This compressed folder contains the following PDF documents:
LOB
Cardmaker Workbook
(5/18/05) New! (6/4/05)
New
Fighters June 2005 by Jim
Chaffin LOB Fighter Ratings Wookbook (Updated 05/15/05) An 18-page Excel Workbook containing ratings for nearly 1000 fighters. Several fighters are rated in more than one weight class. This file remains in spreadsheet format so that you are free to edit the ratings as you desire. Career
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