Welcome to MakoJo Software!  This site contains MakoJo's Editors, Viewers and Utilities for APBA Computer Sports Simulation Games, as well as an assortment of unique data disks, stadiums and assorted other game add-ons.   The Football programs are distributed with the APBA Football Game.  Almost everything on this site is free for the download.  The shareware items are clearly marked as such.  Disclaimer: This site is not affiliated with the APBA Game Company or Miller Associates (or anybody else!). Serving the APBA community since 1996.

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What's New! 

  06/05/07   Skeetersoft's Merlin program has had a bug fix to correct the situation where the program attempted to print Ballpark error messages to the report file, but the user had not selected the report file to be printed.  The program now knows to skip the printing step if the report is not being printed.  You can download the update by clicking on the disk icon  Just extract the two files from the zip file and put them in the directory in which you have installed Merlin.  

 06/05/07  For the Vista Install issue with COMMDLG.DLL and the following installs (Baseball Bundle, Baseball Utilities Bundle, Merlin), there are alternate setup programs.  Try the regular install programs.  If they fail because of not being able to copy COMMDLG.DLL, then try the alternate setup programs.  They're in this zip file .   For some reason Vista does not display the icons for Advanced Draft, League Manager, Stat Master and Wizard for Windows.  Also in the zip file are Vista-compatible desktop icons for these programs.

 04/20/07  Update to installing under Vista:  Do not install my programs into C:\Program Files\... if you have User Access Control (UAC) turned on.  UAC aggressively protects C:\Program Files\ and my programs will not be able to write to their parameter (options) files.

04/15/07  This weekend I acquired a new laptop with Windows Vista on it.  I installed Baseball for Windows and some MakoJo software on it.  I thought I would document my installation process in case in might help someone who is experiencing difficulty with this.  Some of the steps were not intuitive and the Vista Help files were not very helpful.  But thanks to some nice folks who posted on the Internet about how to work with (or around) Vista, I was able to get the software installed.  You can read about it here.  Note that there is still an issue with COMMDLG.DLL.  There is a complicated workaround (which most people would not want to try).  I am working an easier solution.

These programs are all full featured Windows programs and will work under Windows 3.1, Windows '95, Windows '98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP and Windows Vista.  They feature point and click controls and have built in Help files.  You may have read about some of them in the APBA Journal.  The Football Programs were distributed by APBA on the Football for Windows CD.  The program "bundles" contain the programs as well as all of the other files needed to run the programs such as Help Files and .dll files (except for vbrun300.dll, see below).  The latest versions of programs are usually available separately for a short time after the update is released so that you don't have to download the whole bundle over and over again. vbrun300.dll  is required to run these programs but is not distributed with the programs because most people have it already.  If you need this file, click on it to download it. (225k)  Unzip vbrun300.zip and extract vbrun300.dll into your windows\system directory (folder).

It is okay to share these programs with your friends.  It is also okay to link to them from other sites.  But please link to the complete distribution bundles with all the included files, not just the latest .exe files.  You may want to consider, however, linking to the files here rather than reposting them so that your visitors always get the latest version.

All of the files have been zipped with PKZIP.  Just click on the icon or file name to download the zip file, unzip it, and then either run the included setup program (for bundles) or copy the new version of the files to the directory on your hard drive where the program currently resides.  If you need an unzipper program, you can download one from PKWare's Home Page, WinZip's Home Page, or InfoZip's Home Page.   A free, easy to use alternative is JustZipIt.
 

If you like to poke around in data files with a hex editor, then I recommend the MZap Hex Editor (11k).  I like it because it shows the file contents in hex and decimal and ascii all at the same time. This makes it easy to identify names, codes, stats, etc., all from one view.