MEAN 18

Last update 30th June 2003

Welcome to the Mean18 site. This site is aimed at preserving game files, courses and utilities for Mean18, and includes the Y2K bug fix (see the utilities section). I should like to hear from anyone who has files or utilities to share, or who has any comments or suggestions. Please write to me at stephen@merton33.freeserve.co.uk Alternatively if you are aware of any copyright material here tell me so that it can be removed.

Please let me know if you want to be put on the mailing list for the next amendment to the site.

Steve Taylor

Latest changes

Another new course, BETHPAGE BLACK from Steve Schultz. Total number of courses on the site is now 396.

I have amended another course, MUNK'S REVENGE, mainly to reduce the pars on some holes. Apologies to the original designer if he is reading this, but the original with the higher pars is also uploaded.

Website contents:

COURSES

Courses for downloading and a complete list of the ones I have.

I have noted that some of the files have become corrupted over the years, and others have strange features. There are some which I have edited, and to these I have added a short text file explaining what I have done. I have also renamed a couple of courses or files to avoid having two with the same name, left the the file date and time the same.

List of courses where the author is known. Additions welcomed.

The original versions of the course files that I have amended.

The Mean18 programs, the course architect, and notes on the various fixes.

Various programs and a review of the game dating from the mid eighties.

Other sites that feature Mean18, possible other sources for getting course files and useful sources for freeware and shareware.


Recent site history

21st November 2002

Just a few changes this time.

1) A course from Jörgen Ekroth, called THE PROJECT. Visit Jörgen's computer golf site at http://w1.854.telia.com/~u85417550/index.htm Total number of courses on the site is now 395.

2) Changes to a couple of others, ROUGHING IT and SAND MOUNTAIN 

3) One extra version of the program files.

7th November 2002

Big changes at last, with 73 new courses and two amended ones, making a total of 394.

1) Thanks to Steve the librarian from the Apple II public domain file archive for suggesting a program that could unzip Apple II files. A batch of files intended for the Apple are now on this site.

2) RIVERBBS, a site in Australia, has provided me with several.

3) Jim Hill, who provided the Y2K bug fix and who has designed several courses, has come up with GRIEF.M18 - the latest in a distinguished line of hard ones.

4) Thanks to Paul Primak for providing VENISE.M18 

5) One of my own, a variation on HELL.M18


4th January 2002

Another new course - MISERY.M18 - from Jim Hill. Make sure you note his warning about difficulty! Total courses on site now 321.

One course has been amended, Briar Creek, which had a couple of odd pars.


14th October 2000

1) Four new courses and six amended ones. The total is now 320.
2) The links page has changed slightly.
3) A new page has been added to give the originals of the courses I have amended (total so far 27).


23rd August 2000

New links and another fix from Jim Hill. This one will align the columns on the Hall of Fame. The programs now have a page of their own.


13th August 2000

Thanks to Jim Hill for identifying the area of the program that restricts the year to the range 86 to 99 when making an entry to the Hall of Fame. I have provided Y2K bug free versions of the programs, together with notes for anyone who has versions of the programs that I have not listed.