James Nixon - ARTICLES

January18

Deep Fine Leg

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Deep Fine Leg

Deep Fine Leg is based on a game John wrote for the Amstrad CPC 10 years ago which in turn is based upon a dice game he devised. At this stage it is definitely a work in progress. Currently there are no bowling figures, no extras and no strategy or skill in the game.

January18

Clash of the Titans

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Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans is a text based cricket game that has been written for the Micosoft Access platform. Now some of the debates that have captured the imaginations of cricket lovers down the generations can be answered as the great teams of the past face off. How would Don Bradman have handled the great […]

January18

Calypso Cricket

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Calypso Cricket

Calypso Cricket 98 is a shareware program for Windows 95 and is a fairly unique style program and once you get used to it is quite addictive. The author Mike Summers has designed the game as a simulation of batting. This is fine with me as I always prefer batting in games like EA Cricket […]

January18

World Cup Cricket

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World Cup Cricket

World Cup Cricket (not to be confused with World Cup Cricket – a different game with the same name) is now a Freeware (originally released as Shareware) cricket game for DOS by Mark Carter.

January18

Win Cricket

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Win Cricket

WinCricket is a freeware program for Windows 95/98/NT written by Makarand Gadre. It is the follow up program to Cricket Simulator. This is a work in progress. The latest version of WinCricket was released March 2000.

January18

Virtual Cricket

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Virtual Cricket

Virtual Cricket is a freeware program for Windows 95/98/NT written by John Cole. The latest version v4 was released on 9 September 2001. Virtual Cricket is a statistics based cricket simulator and is great for simulating Tests, First Class or One Day Internationals and is the perfect program for anyone running a PBeM or who […]

January18

The Cricket Simulator

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The Cricket Simulator

The Cricket Simulator is yet another freeware cricket game in text mode. It’s a one-man game, designed and programmed in QuickBASIC by Syedur Rahman, who is an A Level student of computing science. There are two executables included in the zip file – 1daycric.exe (for the one-day version) and testcric.exe (the test cricket version).

January18

Test Cricket Simulator

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Test Cricket Simulator

This program simulates Test matches between the then seven cricketing nations of the world. The simulation is run as a series of cricketing tours between 1989 and 1993. Not all of these tours actually took place and some additional ones were made up to make more teams play each other. There is no user interaction […]