HandiGolf is a Palm Pilot program which allows you to play golf on your
Palm III or better handheld. You play from an overhead view on the fairways
and a view from the green when putting. The program has fairways, greens,
sand traps, water, and trees. HandiGolf keeps track of your score and up
to 3 other players, and saves any games which are interrupted.
HandiGolf comes with a separate program to build the courses called HandiEdit.
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This program is shareware, until you register the program
you will be nagged when you start up to register. Also,
when you register the program you will get notified of any updates or new
courses. You will also have access to other courses that we have
made, or that other registered users have made. Finally, this program
will time out eventually, and then only all you to play 3 holes.
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Installation</h3>
Follow the standard PalmPilot installation procedure for HandiGolf:
<p>First, unzip HANDI.ZIP somewhere on your PC or Mac. Then from Windows,
run the PALMPILOT INSTALL TOOL program which will be in the same group
as your PalmPilot Desktop application. When the install dialog comes up,
click on the BROWSE button and navigate to the directory where you unzipped
the PRC files. Select HANDI.PRC, TheLinks.PDB, StNasty.PDB,
Duffers.PDB, and HEDIT.PRC
by double-clicking it in the FILE OPEN dialog and then click on the
INSTALL button. On the next HotSync, the HandiGolf application will appear
in your list of applications.
<p>The 5 files you installed are: HANDI.PRC - the actual golf program,
TheLinks.PDB - a 9 hole course, Duffers.PDB - an 18 hole course,
StNasty.PDB - a difficult 18 hole course,
and HEDIT.PRC which is the course
editor. HandiGolf uses databases of type PGlf (I was going to call
the program a different name and registered PGlf) as courses, which is
what HEDIT will make, so over time you will have databases of this type
on your Palm device for each course that you have installed or created.
HandiGolf also creates a small database on your Palm Pilot with registration
information, and the status of the last game played.
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WARNING: This game occasionally does not work with HackMaster installed. It
runs in a timing loop to do the golf club swings, and HackMaster slows
down the loop to the point of where the program dies. Uninstall hackmaster
or turn it off before running HandiGolf. Or, if you feel daring,
please
try it out and let me know if it works now. I made a fix that might
have fixed the problem.
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Shareware Registration</h3>
There are several ways to register this shareware program:
<p>1) Go to www.palmgear.com and register on-line, where they can take
the usual credit cards and such. They also handle phone orders at 800 741-9070 or fax at 817 640-6614. They can handle getting you the registration code.
<p>2) Send a check or money order for $15 US to:
<p>Rick Eesley
<br>1804 Middle Road
<br>Martinsville, NJ 08836 (USA)
<p>Include an email address or return address so I can mail you the code
to enter in the shareware screen. If there are problems contact me via
Email at: reesley@eclipse.net.
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Operation</h3>
The program operates similarly to most Palm applications, most of the major
