ÂOWL 'N' ÓCORE
ÂY ÒAPHAEL ÄIAZ

É LIKE TO BOWL, BUT LET ME DISPELL A FEW MYTHS RIGHT OFF: ÍY NAME'S NOT ÂUD, É DON'T DRIVE AN ÅL ÃAMINO, AND É DON'T USE PERSONALIZED SCORECARDS. ÁCTUALLY, STEREOTYPES ASIDE, BOWLERS ARE A PROGRESSIVE LOT. ÁLL OVER ÁMERICA BOWLERS WHO OWN ÃOMMODORES, LIKE ME, HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE RIGHT OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION. ÁND HERE IT IS: ÂOWLING ÓCOREKEEPER 64!

ÔHIS SLICK LITTLE PROGRAM IS MENU DRIVEN AND EASY TO USE. ÉT  KEEPS TRACK OF YOUR WEEKLY GAME SCORES, THE DATE, DAILY AVER-AGES, OVERALL AVERAGE, AND IT CALCULATES THE AVERAGE OF YOUR FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD GAMES THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. ÉT ALSO RECORDS KEY STATISTICS THAT WILL HELP YOU ANALYZE YOUR PERFORMANCE, INCLUDING YOUR HIGHEST GAME, YOUR HIGHEST WEEK, YOUR TOTAL NUMBER OF GAMES OVER 200, AND A SUMMARY OF THE ENTIRE SEASON'S SCORES.

ÕSING THE ÐROGRAM

ÂOWLING ÓCOREKEEPER CAN BE RUN FROM ÍENU 64. ÆOR BEST RESULTS, COPY IT TO A FORMATTED WORK DISK, AND THEN RUN IT. ×HEN YOU RUN THE PROGRAM, YOU MAY CHOOSE TO OPEN A PREVIOUSLY SAVED FILE, START A NEW FILE OR DISPLAY THE DISK DIRECTORY. ÔHE FIRST TIME YOU RUN THE PROGRAM, YOU WILL HAVE TO SET UP A NEW DATA FILE, SO CHOOSE THE SECOND OPTION. ÔHE PROGRAM PRESUMES THAT YOU BOWL THREE GAMES EACH NIGHT, ONE NIGHT A WEEK.

É SET UP EACH SEASON AS A SEPARATE FILE, SUCH AS ÒÁÆÁÅÌ91-92. ÙOU CAN HAVE MANY DATA FILES ON A SINGLE DISK, BUT É PREFER TO  KEEP EACH BOWLER ON A SEPARATE DISK, TO ENSURE ACCURATE RECORDING. ÂOWLING ÓCOREKEEPER LETS YOU VIEW DATA FROM ANY FILE, SO YOU CAN COMPARE YOUR SCORES FROM YEAR TO YEAR.

ÏNCE YOU'VE SET UP THE FILE, THE MAIN MENU APPEARS, OFFERING THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS:

ÓET ÕP ÓCREEN ÃOLORS. ÔHIS OPTION LETS YOU QUICKLY CHANGE THE SCREEN COLORS USING THE FUNCTION KEYS.

ÁDD ÎEW ÂOWLING ÓCORES. ÔHIS OPTION LETS YOU ADD SCORES TO YOUR DATA FILE ON A WEEKLY BASIS. ÁFTER DISPLAYING WHICH WEEK NUMBER THE GAMES WILL BE STORED UNDER, THE PROGRAM WILL ASK YOU FOR THE DATE. ÅNTER THE DATE AS A SIX-DIGIT NUMBER IN "MMDDYY" FORMAT WITH NO SPACES. ÆOR EXAMPLE, ÁUGUST 7, 1992 WOULD BE ENTERED AS 080792. ÔHE PROGRAM WILL THEN ASK YOU TO ENTER THE SCORES OF THE THREE GAMES YOU BOWLED THAT WEEK.

ÐRINT ÓEASON'S ÂOWLING ÓUMMARY. ÔHIS OPTION DISPLAYS STATISTICS FROM ALL OF THE GAMES YOU BOWLED DURING THE SEASON. ÔHE DATE, THE SCORE FOR EACH GAME, THE PIN TOTAL AND AVERAGE ARE DISPLAYED FOR EACH WEEK OF THE SEASON.

ÐRINT ÂOWLING ÓTATISTICS. ÔHIS OPTION DISPLAYS THE NUMBER OF GAMES BOWLED AND NOT BOWLED, THE NUMBER OF GAMES OVER 200, THE HIGHEST GAME, THE HIGHEST SERIES, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PINS, THE OVERALL SEASON AVERAGE, AND THE AVERAGES OF ALL YOUR FIRST GAMES, SECOND GAMES AND THIRD GAMES THROUGHOUT THE SEASON.

ÔHIS SET OF STATISTICS IS A POTENTIAL GOLD MINE. ÉT CAN HELP YOU RECOGNIZE TRENDS IN YOUR BOWLING HABITS. ÆOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU NOTICE THAT YOUR THIRD GAME AVERAGE IS CONSISTENTLY LOWER THAN THE OTHERS, IT MIGHT INDICATE FATIGUE, OR MAYBE THAT THE LANES BECOME DRY, CAUSING THE BALL TO HOOK MORE. ×HEN YOU FIGURE OUT THE PROBLEM, YOU CAN FIGURE OUT A SOLUTION AND IMPROVE YOUR PERFORMANCE.

ÓAVE ÂOWLING ÄATA. ÔHIS OPTION LETS YOU WRITE DATA TO A SPECIFIC FILE. ÂOWLING ÓCOREKEEPER WILL NOT ONLY KEEP YOUR RECORDS ACCURATELY AND EFFICIENTLY, IT WILL GIVE YOU THE SAME KIND OF INSIGHT INTO YOUR PERFORMANCE THAT THE PROS GET. ×HO KNOWS? ÍAYBE THIS WILL SHOOT YOUR TEAM INTO THE CHAMPIONSHIP!