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Requirements and installation..............2,3 Starting BOWL101 and Tutorial..............2,3 Main Menu..................................10 FILES: Load.......................................7,11 Save.......................................11 Change Directory...........................12 Delete files...............................12 Make Directory.............................12 Shell......................................12 Quit.......................................12 INPUT: Weekly Scores..............................12 Makeup Games...............................13 Startup Data...............................13 EDIT: Teams......................................13 Bowlers....................................13 Subs.......................................14 High Games.................................14 Startup....................................13,14 Swap Sub/Bowler............................14 Zero all Scores............................14 Add or Remove a Sub........................14 Split Season...............................14 PRINT: Standing Sheet.(Screen printer or file)....14,15 Recap Sheet....(Screen printer or file)....15 Score Sheets...............................11,12,15 Register Bowl101...........................11,14 Not Register...............................11,14 OPTIONS: Change Main Color..........................11,15 Change Help Color..........................11,15 Check For Snow.............................11,15 FormFeed Printout..........................11,15 Convert To Proper Case.....................11,15 Convert To Upper Case......................11,15 Leave Text As Typed........................11,15 Add Mild Sound.............................11,16 Toggle Help Screen.........................11,16 UTILITIES: Prize fund.................................15 Sort Routines..............................15 Individual Recap Sheets....................15 Delimited file.............................15,16 Final average..............................16 MISC: Tips.......................................19 One Disk Systems...........................20 Add or remove teams or bowlers.............20 Lane assignments...........................21 Questions And Answers......................22,23,24 NEW FEATURES: New additions to Bowl101 & In the works....25,26,27 -1- Requirements *************************************** * IBM compatible computer. * * Any printer. * * One or more disk drives. * * Any monitor, color, mono, Ega, Vga. * * and 512k of ram * *************************************** Make a backup disk of the original and place the backup in drive A. Run the install program (INSTALL.BAT). A: <ENTER> INSTALL C: <ENTER>. This creates a directory called BOWL and installs Bowl101 files to that directory. If you have problems with the install program, you can install bowl101 manually by entering the following commands.... C: <ENTER> Note!!! The executible file is called CD\ <ENTER> BOWL101.EXE, the "L" in BOWL101L is to MD BOWL <ENTER> distinguish between different versions. CD BOWL <ENTER> if it is to be placed on a bbs. BOWL101L.ZIP COPY A:*.* <ENTER> This will copy all files from drive A: MD THUPM <ENTER> This is where the data will be stored, you may use any directory name here. This one represents Thursday P.M. You may have more than one directory. Now that you have the program installed on the hard disk or have the working copy in drive A: if you don't have a hard disk, lets run BOWL101. You may enter a path name following BOWL101 if you want to store data on another directory. BOWL101 C:\BOWL\TUEAM The computer will now run BOWL101 and change to \BOWL\TUEAM Another example.. BOWL101 B:\ This will load and save data on the B drive. If you try to run BOWL101 from another directory, i.e. A:\BOWL101, you will get an error: "Insert disk with BOWL.MNU". The program is looking for BOWL.MNU and can't find it. The first thing you will see is a screen that says No files, Select Startup or change directory. Press ENTER. Let's enter STARTUP data now. Place the cursor over INPUT and press <ENTER> or down arrow. You can also just press <I> and you will open up the input menu. Now select STARTUP Data and press down arrow and <ENTER> or S and <ENTER> If you have any problems or need help along the way, just press the <F1> Function Key, and you will get a help screen relating to the option you are working on. -2- Enter the data it calls for, League Name sanction number phone numbers etc. TYPE OF SCORING SYSTEM. NONE OF THE ABOVE. It is a standard scoring system. PETERSON POINTS. Each team gets one or more points for every 50 pins bowled. This point is determined by PETERSON POINTS entered later. Example..... Team 1 bowls a 1967 game, their Peterson points are 1967 divided by 50 = 39.34 This amount is converted to 39 Peterson points and a remainder of 17. 50 times 39 = 1950. 1967 minus 1950 = 17 or 39.17 Peterson points. A -50 in the Peterson points field works the same but drops the decimal except for ties. There is no rounding, the decimal decimal numbers are dropped. COMBINE MATCH POINTS AND PETERSON POINTS. Points are awarded for match points in addition to Peterson points. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TEAM AVERAGES. The low combined averages of the bowlers on one team are subtracted from the combined averages on the opposing team. Only one team is awarded a handicap. This amount multiplied by the Team Handicap, this amount isentered later. SAME AS ABOVE BUT USE BOWLERS HANDICAPS FOR HIGH GAMES. This is a small variation of the difference between team averages, where the high games for the teams are calculated by using the individual bowlers handicaps. TEAM HANDICAP. The combined averages of the bowlers on each team is subtracted from the Subtracted from Team option (later in startup) and multiplied by the Team Handicap. Also entered later in the startup. MATCH POINT. Bowlers are paired before bowling and each bowler is awarded a point or points for each game and/or seires won. The points for games and series are determined by the amount entered in the INDIVIDUAL POINT and INDIVIDUAL SERIES fields later in the STARTUP function. BOTH MATCH AND DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TEAM AVERAGES. Combine match and the difference between team averages. MATCH AND TEAM HANDICAPS. This combines match points and team handicaps. Is this a mixed league (Y/N). Enter Y if you must separate male and female. If it is not a mixed league, enter everyone as a male bowler. SCRATCH LEAGUE (Y/N/P)... Press <F1>, this will bring up a help screen. If it is a scratch league, then answer Y. If it is a handicap league and you wish to show team standings without handicap then press P for Partial handicap. If you use team handicaps, you may also enter Y for scratch league and the bowlers will bowl scratch while the teams bowl with a handicap. Printouts will vary depending on your answer here. -3- MANUALLY ENTER WINS AND LOSSES. Some type of leagues are not supported by this program (YET!!). After entering the scores, the computer will ask for the number of wins and losses for the teams. Enter N here unless you know the program doesn't support your scoring system. MANUALLY ENTER TEAM HANDICAPS. Bowl101 handles almost all scoring systems so enter N here. If your scoring system is not handled by this program, you may choose to manually enter team handicaps, enter Y. ZERO HIGH GAMES WEEKLY. If you would like to have the high team, scratch/ hndcp bowlers scratch/hndcp scores zeroed each week, then select Y here. If you enter N, then the computer will keep the high games and adjust them as higher scores are bowled. STANDING SHEETS IN LANE ORDER. If you wish, you can have the standing sheets print with the opposing teams matched as they will bowl the next week. If you elect not to print this way, the teams will print in columns first half on the left and second half on the right. USE SCRATCH and HANDICAP POINTS. Gives separate points (Points Per Team Game). These points are awarded for scratch games as well as handicap games. TEAM HANDICAP. This option is for the teams that use the difference between team averages. The low team average is subtracted from the high team average and multiplied by the Percentage. It will only let you enter data here if you have use a team handicap. If your handicap is 80% of 600, enter .80 here. SUBTRACTED from TEAM. This is the base amount you would use for the team handicap. If your handicap is 80% of 600, you would enter 600 here. ENTER HANDICAP FOR MALE OR FEMALE. If the handicap is 80% of 180 then enter .80 here and 180 for subtracted from. Next enter 180 for female <ENTER> and 180 for Male, unless you allow a different handicap for each, then enter the appropriate amount for each. If this is not a mixed league, then all bowlers use the male information. You can limit the handicap for male and female bowlers. Example... You wish to limit the male bowlers to a handicap of 40 and the female bowlers to 60, Enter 40 for male and 60 for female. If a male bowler exceeds 40 for handicap, the their handicap will be dropped back to 40, likewise for female. IE. If their handicap calculates to 65, the the computer will convert it to 60. MINIMUM HANDICAP. This will normally be 0, but in rare instances the handicap is allowed to drop below 0. If this is the case then enter the smallest amount the handicap can be. If there is no limit then enter -98. If you decide of -20 for a minimum handicap, anything under -20 will be converted to -20. If you enter 0 here, anything from 0 to -98 will be converted to 0. If you enter -99 then then the computer will subtract the average from the subtracted from variable to give you the difference for the handicap. -4- Example.. If you use a 80% of 180, entered a -99 in this option and your average is 190 then your handicap will be calculated to -10. DECIMAL PLACES IN AVERAGES. This will allow up to two decimal places in the averages. All numbers beyond the decimal are dropped, no rounding is done. You may select 0 for no decimal, 1 for one and 2 for 2 178 178.1 or 178.19. POINTS FOR HIGH TEAM GAME. This will allow an additional point if your team gets the highest game for the two teams. Remember Pressing F1 will explain each function a little better. NUMBER OF TEAMS. (1-36). You can have up to 36 teams with this program. For this tutorial, it may be wise to enter 4 here just to get a feel for the program. Once you have a feel for the program, you can enter the proper data for your teams. This way you can make adjustments without having to deal with a large number of teams until the program is configured to your type of league. NUMBER OF BOWLERS (1-10). You can have more bowlers than actually bowl. These can be rotated in as needed and are elegible for high games. For now just enter 2 to keep things simple. NUMBER OF ACTUAL BOWLERS (1-5). You can have more bowlers than actually bowl. This option will aid the program knowing how many bowlers are actually used. Just enter the number bowlers that will actually bowl on one team. NUMBER OF GAMES TO KEEP AVERAGES. If you must keep the average for a certain number of weeks, then this option will allow you to keep the average for up to 99 games. If you keep the average, you keep the handicap also. Enter 0 if you wish the computer to calculate the averages from the start. WEEK NUMBER. This normally 1 is for the first week 2 for the second, etc. this will load the proper lane assignment schedule. Lane assignment scheduals are calculated from week number minus position rounds to date. POSITION ROUNDS TO DATE. Enter 0 here if you don't use or haven't bowled a position round yet. This option adjusts the auto lane assignment by subtracting the number entered here from the week number to return to the proper lane assignment. It must always be less than the week number Lane assignment = Week number - Position rounds to date. NUMBER OF GAMES BOWLED. Enter the number of physical games bowled, 1, 2, 3 or 4 and the computer will do what is necessary to enter those number of games. POINTS PER GAME. Normally this is 1. If you allow 1 point per win then you can have a possible 4 wins, if you bowl 4 games or 3 wins if you bowl only 3 games. POINTS PER SERIES. Some leagues allow points for high series. If this is the case, enter the number of points allowed for series. If you allow 1 point for game and 2 for series, then you will have a possible 5 wins, one for each game and two for series. 1+1+1+2. MAXIMUM SCORE. Making this program as flexible as possible, I have included a function to allow a score higher then the standard 300. FivePin bowling for example allows you to bowl a 450 game. This option only effects the data entry. If you exceed the amount entered here, the computer will beep and make you re-enter the score. -5- SPLIT TEAMS AT LANE. If you have a league that bowls on lanes not adjoining, then enter the lane the first team ends on for this option. START SECOND HALF ON LANE. Enter the starting lane for the second half of the league in this option. If you start on lanes other than lane 1 for the first half, just enter the actual lane the teams start on. NUMBER OF LANE SCHEDULES(1-9). Prints from 1 to 9 weeks of lane schedules on the standing sheets, or the recap sheets. PETERSON POINTS (50). This is the default, any number may be entered here. This option will only open up if you select P or C in Match/Peterson/Combine option above. If you elect 50 then the teams will receive 1 point for every pin bowled that day. If you elect -50, then you will receive the same points, but the decimal will be dropped execpt for ties. Any negative number will work. INDIVIDUAL GAME POINTS. This is only for match points. If you have a 5 man team, bowl 3 games and allow 1 individual point, then you can have a possible 15 points if all 5 bowlers won their game. INDIVIDUAL SERIES POINTS. If you use the match point system then the bowlers will get points for beating their opponents series. (Individual game points). Now, press <ENTER>. Do you wish to start in mid season? That is so you won't have to enter all the scores up to this point, just enter the total pins and number of games and you are ready to start. If you start in mid season, then at a later date, you might want to go back and enter all of the scores from week 1. This will allow you to print an individual recap sheet at the end of the season. Load any week, select zero scores, remove any subs and then save as START.BWL. Now select enter scrores from week 1 up to the week you started in mid season. Next you will be asked for the team names. If you elected mid season then after you enter each team, you will be asked for some scores. Just follow the computer's lead. Press <F1> if you need help. Now you will be asked for the bowlers name and scores. Remember if you elected to keep the averages for a number of games you will have to answer "1" to calculate average and "2" if you wish to keep this bowlers average. The computer will automatically change this 2 to a 1 as soon as the bowler bowled the number of games you told it to keep the average and start calculating the average after this. If you don't have a bowler just enter Blind for his name, this way the program will keep using the score you entered for him the first week. If you started in mid season, you will be asked for the high team games, hi team series and the individual bowlers high game and series. You only have to answer the questions for the scores that apply to your scoring system. If you have a scratch league, you won't have to fill in the scores for the handicap bowlers and teams. The same applies if you are not a mixed league, just enter the scores for the male bowlers even if it is an all female team. -6- When you are all done, you will be asked if you wish to save as START.BWL. Do not save data to the program disk as there is little room for data files. If you are on drive A: and are going to save it to drive A: then place a blank formatted disk in drive A: and save the data. Answer YES here and supply the filename. Use a name that contains the date and month, this will be used later for the ind recap. Example, to save to disk with the date September 20th, enter SEP20 and the computer will save all the names and scores to the disk. Replace the program disk now if necessary. Using this format for the date, will simplify the individual recap sheets as the dates won't have to be entered manually. You may shut down the machine if you wish; all data will be on the disk waiting your return. Okay, you are back. Good. If you are using a hard disk. C: <ENTER> CD\BOWL BOWL101 C:\bowl\thupm <ENTER> if not on a hard disk the just enter... BOWL101 <ENTER> or BOWL101 B:\ <ENTER>. <ENTER> You are on Files. <ENTER> You are on Load. <ENTER> There is one file called 00START.BWL and the cursor is on it. If not, just use the arrow keys to move over it and press <ENTER>. Now the data is loaded and you are ready to start. Press the right arrow key and Highlight INPUT and WEEKLY SCORES. A little calander pops up to help you with the date. Enter the date they bowled. You can use any format for the date, it is just for display on your printouts. Next is the week number. This will start at 1 and continue unless this is not the first week. STARTING LANE: If you start on lane 1, then press <ENTER>. If you start on another set of lanes, enter the lowest lane you bowl on. Now, depending on several variables here is what will happen. If you have the data files on the disk called lanes.asn with the number of teams on preceding the filename such as 6LANES.ASN and you are within the 36 weeks, the auto lane assignment routine will automatically engage and you will be asked to check that the teams are paired properly then press <ENTER>. If this is a postion round, press P and the teams will be paired as they should be for position rounds. This will also add one to the position rounds to date so the lane assignments will always be correct. If this is not the case, you will be asked to pair the teams by entering the lanes each team bowled on manually. -7- Now you will receive a list of the bowlers for the first team and the computer wants to know how many subs. If you don't have any for that team (no sub bowled), then press <ENTER> to accept the default of 0 subs. If you did have a sub or two, then enter the number of subs here. Several things may happen here. You may be asked for the sub's name if you don't have any subs in the computer yet, or you will receive a list of subs the computer is keeping for you. The list may be larger than the window, and if so, just move the cursor down and the window will scoll up. Highlight the sub's name and press <ENTER>. If the sub isn't on the list, then highlight New Sub and press <ENTER>. This will prompt you to enter the name of the sub and add him or her to the list. It may ask you if it is a male or female and whether you calculate of keep the average. If it asks you 1=Calculate 2=Keep, then enter 1 if you wish to have the computer calculate the average or 2 if you wish to keep the average until the number of games you entered in Number of games to keep average has been reached. If you entered "2" then you will be asked for the bowlers average. If you entered Y for Match or Peterson points, then you will move the position of bowlers to match the position they bowled in. Select bowlers and subs in the order they bowl by using the up down arrow keys to highlight the first bowler and press ENTER. Highlight the second, etc. Select only the number of bowlers bowling. Press ESC after the last bowler. You only have to do this if you are using one or more subs. Next you will be taken to the input screen. Here you enter the handicap if any and scores for the 3 games. You will only be asked for the handicap for the first week if the computer doesn't know it yet. Enter the bowlers scores next. If a bowler didn't bowl or just bowled one or two games, enter the scores that they bowled. If they didn't bowl, then give them a zero or a blind score. Blind scores can be entered two ways. Precede their scores by a - sign, ie (-145) for a 150 average minus 10 pins, or you may enter B for BLIND and let the computer convert the score to their average minus 10 pins. The computer can figure things out if a bowler bowled one game and a sub bowled two. Just enter the scores as they are on the sheet. If you have to use a blind score, just enter B for BLIND and the computer will convert it to their average - 10 pins and insert it as a negative number. That is for a bowler with a 165 average and you drop it ten pins for his or her blind score, simply enter B or -155 etc. Now the computer will know that this is a blind score and give the team the proper scores and leave the bowlers scores alone. To enter a zero score that was actually bowled, enter a z and the bowler will be credited with a game bowled and retain his handicap. -8- You may back up with the UP ARROW, you may press ESC wherever you are in the data entry field and the computer will drop to the bottom and calculate all scores for you. If you made a mistake and need to ask for subs or the team handicap again, just press PAGE UP and the computer will ask for the number of subs and team handicap again. If you wish to abort, you can press ESC and will be allowed to abort and re run the program again loosing only the information just entered. If you wish to suspend entering data at any time, you may. Just press ESC when it asks is this correct for the team and you will be asked to abort. This new function will allow you to save your data and resume later. When your data is saved, you may load it back in again, but must select makeup load in the weeks data prior to the makeup, select the makeup week for the last week to make up and then select it once more. Now the program will supply all the scores you have entered previously and once you get to the end of the teams already entered, simply enter the remaining scores as usual. Now do the same for the rest of the teams and bowlers. When the last team and bowler are entered, you will be taken back to the MAIN MENU again. Select FILES again and SAVE DATA. This time choose a filename that reflects the date. If the date is September 4th, then enter SEP04 and the computer will supply the .BWL extention. Be sure to save to the data disk if using one. The computer will add the filename to the week number and make it 01SEP04.BWL. This is used to print the individual recap sheets. Now that everything is safe on the disk, move over to the PRINT function and print the standing sheet and the recap sheet. Make two copies of the standing sheet if you wish and you will have one for your records and one for the bowling alley. You have room for 5 lines of comments at the end of the printouts. Pressing <ENTER> with no text will terminate this function. If you see a problem with any score. you may edit any team, bowler, subs name, or score with the edit option. If you find an error with an individual game bowled, it may be better to re-enter the scores again. This will keep the high games correct. Just load in the previous weeks data and enter the data again. While editing a bowler or sub, you may page forward and back with PG UP and PG DN to edit more than one bowler. This keeps you from having to go back to the menu if you have more than one score to edit. You could also run MAKEUP GAMES if you want, this will preserve the scores and you just have to step over the proper scores and change the scores that are not correct and the computer will re calculate high games, wins and losses etc. You will notice you don't have any option for the handicap. This is because it is calculated for you when you edit scores. Just change games bowled or number of games and the handicap will re-calculate for you. Note: If you change the average and the option calculate keep = 1 then the computer will recalculate the average. If keep = 2 and the number of games bowled is smaller than the number games to keep the average. Then it will keep the average you enter. -9- I would like to make this program do everything, but we know that this is impossible. I wrote it so it will easy to use and easy to expand. I know it won't do everyting now, but I plan to keep adding to it with your help. If you want something added, drop me a line, please be thorough in your explanation. Include copies of printouts or anything else you think may help me. -10- Menu Options ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │Files Input Edit Print Options Utilities │ ├──────────┬──────────────┬──────────┬───────────────┬─────────────┬──────────┤ │Load │ Weekly scores│ Team │ Standing sheet│ Main colors │Utilities │ │Save │ Makeup Games │ Bowlers │ Recap Sheet │ Help colors ├──────────┘ │Change dir│ Startup Data │ Subs │ Score Sheets │ Formfeed │ │Delete fil├──────────────┤ High Game│ Print Docsnd │ Pcase │ │Make Dir │ │ Startup │ Register │ Ucase │ │Shell dos │ │ Swap Sub/└ Don't Register│ Leave │ ├──────────┤ │ Zero all scores ┌────────┤ Sound │ │Quit │ │ Add/Remove a sub│ │ Help Screen │ └──────────┘ │ Split Season │ └─────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ This is the main menu. Here is a brief description of each selection. Pressing the F1 key anywhere in the program will bring up a help screen related to the menu option or the input field you are on. Use the arrow keys to get around in the menu, LEFT/RIGHT moves along the top of the menu, down arrow or <ENTER> opens up the highlighted menu selection to show more options. UP/DOWN arrow changes selections. Press <ENTER> to select an option or press selector letter and ENTER. LOAD. Loads previous week into memory, new data is added to this each week by selecting INPUT and then WEEKLY SCORES. Place the cursor over last weeks filename and press <ENTER> This will load previous week into memory. New data is added to this each week by selecting INPUT and then WEEKLY SCORES. You may load in any week's score to print data for that week. data is saved making it possible to print standing sheets or final average sheet for any week that has been saved. Selecting this option also opens up the menu selections that were disabled. SAVE. This option saves the data in memory to disk. This will be the data you will load in next week and append to. If you fail to save data and try to exit, the computer will issue a warning reminding you to save your data. Use a filename to help you remember the date such as JUL07 for July 7. Don't use spaces in the filename. The computer will place the week number in front of this filename and add the extention .BWL to make it 01JUL07.BWL -11- You must load this data in next week and then use INPUT WEEKLY SCORES. This will load in all names and scores from last week and now you will add to these scores. CHANGE DIRECTORY and MAKE DIRECTORY Lets you change drive or directory to load or save data to another drive or directory or lets you create a new directory to store files. Place the cursor on this option and press <ENTER>. You will now be asked for a new directory or drive. To change to a new drive, just enter the drive letter such as B: or A: A one drive computer, you may insert the data disk before pressing ENTER. You will be prompted to return the program disk when data is loaded or saved. Just follow the prompts with your program disk and data disk. DELETE FILES: This is to remove duplicate or practice files only, all files are needed for the individual recap sheets. Select files to delete and press ENTER to delete that file. Press ESC to exit this function. SHELL TO DOS: This option will allow you to exit temporarily to dos if you have enough memory. You can format a disk, do a directory or other dos functions. Type EXIT <ENTER> and you will be returned to BOWL101. QUIT. This option is the only way out of the program. QUIT lets you end the program, and checks to see that you have saved your data. If not, it will issue a warning to that effect. INPUT WEEKLY SCORES. This is where you enter each week's data. Startup or Load data must be used before this option. If you have made some changes prior to entering the data, the computer will issue a warning that your data has not been saved. It is not necessary to save the data unless you plan to quit. It is just a warning letting you know that you have been in the edit mode. All data will be carried over to the INPUT scores routine, you may save them when you are done. -12- MAKEUP GAMES. You may now makeup games without having to enter all the data for each week. Simply load the data prior to the makeup week to load in all the bowlers and scores. Tell the computer the week before the makeup, and the last week to make up. Now load in the makeup week. This will load in only the scores of all bowlers but not over write the games won and total pins. To makeup week 5 while in week 7, load week 4, week 7 and then week 5. Continue through that week and week 6 then through week 7 saving your data as you go. Now select the week number and lane assignment. The scores for all bowlers bowling that week will be plugged in for you. It will even tell you the number of Subs you had. You will have to supply the subs names but the computer will supply the scores except for the makeup teams. Be sure the subs are in the proper order as they bowled. This routine is exactly like the input scores, but most scores are provided for you, use the score sheets to check your progress. You may press ESC to total the scores instead of stepping over them. You will be prompted to save the data again when each week is completed. Filenames will be provided. It will ask you if next week is position round and adjust the lane assignments accordingly. Enter each week until you have completed the final week. The computer will terminate this function and return you to the main menu. It might not be a bad idea to backup your data files before using this function. STARTUP DATA. This will be the first option you will use to enter the team names and other data for the league. You may use this option at any time to step through all of the teams, bowlers and subs to make changes, such as increase the number of bowlers. (See the tutorial on page 2 for more information.) EDIT TEAMS. This option will let you edit any team score. Just pick the team you wish to edit and change the scores needed. Pressing PG up or Pg down will let you go to the next or previous team. EDIT BOWLERS. Select the team the bowler is on and then select the bowler. The handicap is calculated for you after changing the number of games or the average. The option 1=Calculate 2=Keep is if you have chosen more than 0 weeks to keep the averages in Startup. If you entered more than 0 then you must tell the computer if the bowlers average will be calculated or kept. If you choose to keep this bowlers average, then enter 2 here if not, enter 1 and the computer will calculate the averages from now on. -13- EDIT SUBS. This is almost identical to the editing the bowlers. EDIT HIGH GAMES. This is where you may edit HIGH GAMES. All HIGH GAMES may be edited here, team or bowlers. EDIT STARTUP. Sometimes you need to edit the number of teams or bowlers or things like that. EDIT HIGH GAMES You can edit high games with this option and edit team or bowlers high games. EDIT STARTUP You can change the startup values here if you want add another team bowler or just you know the program won't handle the wins losses properly because of special circumstances and you want to manually enter team wins and losses for this week only. SWAP SUB/BOWLER. If a bowler quits and is replaced with a sub, you can use this option to drop the bowler down to a sub and move the sub up into his or her place. This routine can be used to trade bowlers from one team to another or to change the lineup. ZERO ALL SCORES. You may use this option to start a new league or start over. This will zero all scores but leave team and bowlers names. ADD/REMOVE SUB. You may add or remove a sub with this option. Just remember Subs that have been removed will not be part of the final average sheets. This option is mainly to add a sub. They will be included in the individual recap sheets. SPLIT SEASON This will zero the team standings or just wins and losses or wins losses and high games to allow you to bowl a split season. If you wish to have a different set of scores zeroed, you may just edit the teams and page down after each team and modify just the selected scores you desire. You will have to maintain the records for the first half and combine them at the last half if you want the combined total. PRINT TO SCREEN FILE OR PRINTER. All of the print functions may now be directed to the screen the printer LPT1, LPT2 or a file. This will allow you to preview the printouts or load the file created into a word processor for additional modifications. Using the file function, it is possible to write to a device such as COM1, COM2, SCRN: by substituting a devicename for a filename. See your dos manual for details on device names. Writing to screen, creates a file called SCREEN.TXT. -14- PRINT STANDING SHEET Print standing sheets with this option. Print two, one for your records. PRINT RECAP SHEET. Shows all scores for bowlers and subs that bowled that night. Prints most pins over average or series at the bottom of the sheet. SCORE SHEETS. You can print score sheets on a master form. Prices are included. REGISTER AND DON'T REGISTER. This will let you print the register form, so you may obtain the complete and most recent version of Bowl101, or let the author know what is missing and have your name and address added to the mailing list so anouncements of new features and/or when your requests are met may be forwarded to you. No fee is charged if you don't register to have your name placed on the mailing list, but all requests are considered. CHANGE MAIN COLORS. This will let you change colors of the main and input screens in the program. CHANGE HELP COLORS. This will change the colors of the help screens within the program, not the ones called up with the F1 key. CHECK FOR SNOW. Some older color monitors flicker when the screen updates. If you see snow or the screen flickers, try using this option. Just press <ENTER> on this option, it will toggle the snow on or off. FORMFEED. Places a CHR$(12) at the end of the printouts and ejects the paper after each printout. PCASE. This converts the text you type in to PROPER CASE. When the text is entered and you press <ENTER> the text will be converted. If you press <UP OR DOWN ARROW> then the text will remain as you typed it in. UCASE. Converts all text entered to UPPER CASE. LEAVE TEXT AS TYPED. Leaves the text as typed, no conversions are made -15- SOUND. Toggles a small SOUND on and off and changes the chirp to a mellow beep HELP SCREEN. This will remove the HELP SCREEN from the main menu. TOGGLE HELP SCREEN. You may turn off the help screen that appears at the main menu. Doing this will also turn of the blinking messages at the bottom of the screen. UTILITIES. These routines have been moved from the main program to a separate program. This allows the program greater speed and allows for future expansion. Data must be saved before running the utility option as the variables are not passed. The program will prompt you if the data has not been saved. Although these routines are in the registered version, text files will allow you to view the output that the program generates. UTILITY MENU ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │Files Utilities Team Sorts Bowler Sorts Colors │ ├──────────┬──────────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────┬─────────────┤ │Load │ Final Average│ Scratch Series │ Scratch Series │ Main Colors │ │Change Dir│ Ind Recap │ Handicap Series │ Handicap Series │ Help Colors │ │Shell │ Prize Fund │ Scratch Game │ Scratch Game ├─────────────┘ │Bowl101 │ Delimited │ Handicap Game │ Handicap Game │ ├──────────┤ Hndcp Sheet │ Total Pins+Hndcp │ Average │ │Quit │ Average Sheet│ Hi Team Game │ Total Pins │ └──────────┴──────────────┤ Hi Team Series │ High Games │ └──────────────────┤ High Series │ └──────────────────┘ FINAL AVERAGE. Lets you print the averages in sorted order by last name first. This is turned in at the end of year, you can print this anytime for your own reference. INDIVIDUAL RECAP SHEET. A complete listing of all team, bowler and subs activity will be generated with this option. Follow the prompts to create the datafile and print the recaps. If your data spans two disks or more, complete the recap using disk 1, but press ESC when it asks print to screen, lpt1 or file. Now replace data disk with the next disk and select append to recap. Continue until all the datafiles have been loaded and then print the recaps. PRIZE FUND. Enter the amount of wins and amount per win and the computer will print out a sheet showing each bowler and amount received. It will also tell you how much money to withdraw, and what denominations needed, a real time saver. You may print labels with the amount each bowler gets for prize money or pin money with this option, it will also determine the number of 20's 10's 5's 1's etc needed to fill the envelopes for each bowler. -16- DELIMITED FILE. This is a routine to print each team, bowler and sub in a delimited file for processing information yourself. Included on the disk is a file called RECAP.DBF which is the structure you can use if you use Dbase III. HANDICAP SHEETS. This will print out a handicap sheet using user defined parameters. AVERAGE SHEETS. This will print out two sheets with averages based on 3 game series. SORT ROUTINES. Sort bowlers and teams, series, averages and games in a number of ways. Change menu or help colors. Same as the color options in Bowl101 -17- IN THE WORKS..... The following are some routines I am working on now and will inform you when they are complete. Additional printouts. Most pins over average after x number of games. Number of 200, 250, 300 games. Number of 600, 700 series. More sort routines. Add numlock status. Add printer codes for customized printouts. Popup window to show any bowlers stats. Scoring system for teams which allow 18 points for an 18 team league with the highest game, 17 for the second hi, etc. Awards. Most improved bowler, high game, high series, all of the ABC, WIBC and junior awards. -18- SOME HOT KEYS AND TIPS...... F1...........Will always bring up a help screen, unless you are printing data. F2...........Brings up a calculator only when you can enter data. UP ARROW.....Takes you up in a menu selection or back on an input field. Using the UP or DOWN arrow will let you keep the text as you typed it into a field and you have selected UCASE to convert text to UPPER case, Pressing <ENTER> after entering McDonnald will convert it to MCDONNALD, UP or DOWN ARROW will keep it as McDonnald. DOWN ARROW...Moves you down as the up arrow moves you back. PAGE UP......Scrolls to previous team, bowler, or sub while editing. For example... You are editing a team and need to edit another. Instead of returning to the menu and selecting that team, just press Page Up to scroll to the previous team. The computer will beep if you try to go below team 1. PAGE DOWN....Same as scroll up but moves to next team, bowler, or sub. It will not allow you to go beyond the last team, bowler, or sub. ESC..........The ESCAPE key will always return you from a function such as editing or any function where you don't want to be, or all done with. It will not let you escape from the Input scores routine but will exit from the Input routine and caluclate the scores, then return you to the "Is this correct Y/N" prompt at the bottom of the screen. If you press ESC here, it will ask you if you wish to abort. In the data entry screen, pressing ESC will total scores for you. If you had to go back and edit any score. Press ENTER on the last score you changed then hit ESC, this will take the cursor through the rest of the scores and total them much faster than stepping over them with the enter key. CTRL U.......This key will restore a field as long as you remain on that field. If you accidentally erase a field, press Ctl U and it will restore it for you. Hold down the CTRL key and press U. CTRL Y.......This deletes the data in the field. Pressing any alphanumeric key at the start of a new field will also erase the contents of the field. The arrow keys will let you scoll in the field if you wish to edit just one character. Hold down the CTRL key and press Y. -19- ADDING OR REMOVING TEAMS OR BOWLERS. You may add teams or delete teams if you wish. Just edit the startup and routine and enter the number of teams or bowlers. If you enter less than the number of teams now in memory, you will lose the last two teams so swap the team or teams you wish to drop with the last teams, then drop the last two teams. You can add them back at the end of year manually if you wish to include the bowlers in the final average sheets after you print the individual recap sheets. The individual recap will still pick up the deleted teams up to the point you removed them. Entering additional teams will open up new team spaces and allow for new teams. You may enter the startup and step over the teams that are valid and enter the new team names when you reach the proper team number. Pressing Page Dn on the team name will bypass the input score routines if you don't need to change the scores. You may press escape at any time and be returned to the main menu. ONE DRIVE COMPUTERS You may swap a data disk for the program disk if you only have one drive. The only problem you will have is that you will need the program disk in the drive too. The menu and help files are needed while the program runs but you can select SAVE or LOAD data and before pressing enter, replace your program disk with your data disk. Now press <ENTER>. Your data will be saved and when the program tries to load the menu again it won't find it on the data disk and ask you to place your program disk back in the drive. You will have 3 tries before the program aborts. Just replace the program disk back in the drive and press <ENTER>. Easier done than said. You may even trick the computer into thinking you have two drives, depending on which Dos version you have. Tell the computer to change to drive B: If it does what I think it will do, it will prompt you to insert your data disk in drive B. and prompt you again to put the program in drive A:. This may mess up the display. I don't have one drive to test this theory on but I would be interested in hearing your response on this. -20- AUTO LANE ASSIGNMENTS Auto lane assignment even allows for position rounds. Position rounds will be entered, just answer P to is this correct when the teams are paired. This will also adjust the lane assignment by subtracting the number of position rounds from the week number to give you the proper lane assignment. Files on the disk with the number of teams and the LANES.ASN are the files the computer uses to assign the lanes. If you are bowling with a 12 team league then the only file you will need is the file 12LANES.ASN. If for some reason of another your lane assignment is different than this one, you may edit the file to match your needs or delete the file and the computer will have you manually enter the lanes the teams bowl on when you enter Weekly Scores. -21- Questions and answers. Question... Can I stop in the middle of entering scores and resume at a later time? Answer.... Yes, you can press ESC after entering any team and the program will allow you to save your data. Just select Makeup when you wish to continue, the data you have entered will be there and you will just have to enter the remaining data. Question... I don't see a cursor on the menu selections. Answer.... If you have a mono monitor, the colors may be set so both colors are the same on your monitor, select change colors from the option menu. Question... When running Individual recap sheets, the computer refuses to load one week and the stops. Answer.... When using sequential files, the data must match the variables you are loading in. Sometimes this gets out of sync and it just won't load. Load the data into the bowling program as you were going to print it. Print the data for that week and look for anything out of the ordinary. Example a number with a % sign %987333 or a number larger than it should be, a score for a games 1-4 larger than 32767 will cause it to crash. Edit each bowler and or team. If you find the problem, then fix it and save it again, then try again. If nothing you try seems to work, re enter that week and save it again. Question... Total wins and losses don't compute properly. Answer..... You have not set the number of points per game and series properly Edit startup and enter the proper number of points for each game and series. If you enter 1 point per game and 1 for series, you will have a possible 4 wins, 1 for each game and 1 for series. Question... In the second week, I found an error in a bowlers score that wasn't caught when entering the data for week 1. How do I fix this. Answer..... The easiest way is to use the makeup function and redo the scores. This option will recalculate all scores after you complete the makeup. Question... My subs are not receiving recognition for high games bowled. Answer..... If your subs are eligible for high games and series, you must place them on the team as a member of the team before entering scores. Another option. If you have a 5 man team, and allow 2 subs for each team, enter 7 for number of bowlers. Question... I discovered an error after pressing ENTER while entering scores. Answer..... Easy, just press up arrow to back up. Press PG up if you want to change the sub information or manually re-enter team handicaps. If you found the error after you left that team and are on the next team, you can't back up you can continue and run makeup and correct it. Press ESC at the first bowlers scores and ESC when it asks is this correct. You may abort this function, but the program will re-run itself to clear out any stray scores. Load in last weeks data again and reenter the scores. I found it quicker than trying to edit mistakes. -22- Question... Lane assingments don't work or the teams don't match up correctly. Answer..... If the lane assignment is incorrect, then the problem lies in the week number and the position rounds to date. The proper lane assignment file is obtained by subtracting the week number from the position rounds to date. Question... The menu doesn't show the cursor and I can't tell what option I'm on. Answer..... Select Colors from the Bowl Util menu or Options from BOWL101. Select change main colors. Press F3 and F4 until the sample text appears in the box. Question... Not much disk space, what files do I have to have to run BOWL101 Answer..... The files you have to have on the disk are BOWL101.EXE, BOWL.MNU, BOWLHELP.HLP, and if you have 12 teams 12LANES.ASN. You should not save your data on the program disk, use an additional disk for the data. Question... It didn't ask for the average for a bowler I told the computer to calculate, but did for the ones I told to keep. Answer..... Right, the computer needs to know the average of the bowlers you wish to keep the average for. It will calculate the average for the others. It will ask you for the handicap for the bowlers that don't keep their average only for the first game, after this the computer knows the average and can calculate the handicaps for you. Question... All subs are eligible for high games and series but they are also allowed to bowl on other teams, they are on the team roster, how can they bowl for another team. Answer..... For this you need to move this bowler to that team before entering the scores. Use the swap sub/ bowler option to move the bowler to the sub roster and then up to the other team. See docs for a better description. Question... I have several blank positions on the teams, is there any way to keep from having to give them the same scores each week? Answer.... Yes, just list these bowlers as Blind. When the program zeros out the scores before entering this weeks scores it will look for every bowler called BLIND. If such a bowler is found, it will keep the score you gave it the last week. Question... I have some that are not handled properly when I have proper case set. Answer.... When the text is entered and you press <ENTER> the text will be converted to proper case or upper case which ever you have selected. If you press <DOWN ARROW> then the text will remain as you typed it in. -23- Question... Out of memory error, is there any way to get more string or memory space? Answer.... Remove any memory resident programs that may be installed. Install more memory. Call me and let me know how many teams and bowlers you have and I will send you a modified copy that uses less memory. Question... I have to manually enter the lanes the teams bowl on, I thought I had auto lane assignments. Answer.... You will have to copy the lane assignment file to your working disk. If you have 12 teams the copy 12LANES.ASN to your working disk and the lane assignment will work for you. If you have a problem and wish to contact me, please include a printout of the startup data so I can see how you have the program set up. I am very interested in your comments and welcome any suggestions no matter how small or large. There isn't a week go by that I don't add or change something to improve the program to better suit your needs. When I get a collection of routines complete, I send out an update. This is free if you have just registered and I have already sent you a registered version within 3 months or less. Otherwise a small fee is required usually $20.00 but is subject to change. If you have special request and I think others may be able to use it, I will make the modification at no charge and send you that modification when complete and include this in a future update. I am going to try to complete an update every 6 months. Question... We have Bantom leagues and sometimes a bowler bowls a zero score. The computer doesn't give him credit for his game bowled. Answer..... The program uses zero to determine if a bowler actually bowled. You can place a z for zero in place of the zero and the computer will treat it as a zero score but credit the bowler with a game bowled and retain the bowlers handicap for the team. -24- New additions and enhancements. * Some of these are only in the Registered version. 1 or 2 game capability for Bantam leagues. 4th game capability. Prebowl and makeup games. * Score sheets or Recap sheets. (Forms available) Zero high games weekly or leave for all year. Match Point, Peterson Points, Difference between team averages. Combine match and Peterson or difference between team averages. Combine Match and team handicap. Team averages. Combine Peterson and match point. Position rounds at any time. Assign points for team game/series, individual series/game Peterson. Print to Lpt1: Lpt2: Screen or file. Swap bowlers from team to team or with subs. Print teams in lane order on standing sheets option. Additional options for split season. Up to 100 subs Swap teams. Up to 9 schedules may be printed instead of 1 Split lane schedule. Use Scratch and Handicap scores to award points. Allow Individual series points as well as game points. * Sort on high games scratch and handicap. Show bowlers elegible for awards as scores are entered. Games, series, over average game and over average series. Enter number of lines before issuing a form feed. Better working Individual recap sheets. * Write the individual recap information to a delimited file. Two programs, one for entering data and printouts, other for utilities. * Append individual recap data, for those using floppy drives and all *.BWL data doesn't fit on one disk. Allow 0 1 or 2 decimal places in the averages. Swap Sub and bowlers while entering data. SUSPENDING DATA ENTRY. You may now press ESC while the computer is asking "is this correct?" and you will be allowed to save your data and resume by using the makeup feature. * SORT ROUTINE. The utility module now includes sorts by high game scratch and handicap for teams and bowlers. Constant comment for the Standing Sheets. Bowl101 looks for a file called COMMENT1.TXT in the directory that contains your league data (03MAR.BWL). If it finds this file in that directory, its contents will be printed at the end of the standing sheets. -25- This file can be created with any word processor that can save data in straight ascii such as edlin included with your DOS. You can also use the copy command to create this file. COPY CON COMMENT1.TXT <ENTER> I am the text that will print at the bottom of the recap sheet just as it is typed in here. <F6> <ENTER> Press the F6 key and then Enter to copy the file from the keyboard to the disk. To remove this file enter the command... DEL COMMENT1.TXT while in the same directory. SWAP TWO TEAMS. This option is to allow dropping two teams. Swap the two teams with the last two teams. Edit startup for this week and change the number of teams. The last teams are the ones that get dropped. * In the Utility program, you can now save all the data to a delimited file. This file can be loaded into a database for further sorts. Recap.dbf is provided. You can now print a handicap sheet or an average sheet. This is the structure for the delimited file. Team Bowler or sub. (TBS) T = Team, B = Bowler, S = Sub... TBS,Date,Bowler's name, Game 1 ,Game 2, Game 3, Game 4, Total Pins,_ Average, Grand Total, Number of games, Sex, High Game, High Series,_ Handicap, Games Won, Games Lost Hi games are now looked for while entering data. If a bowler bowls a high series or game then the computer will let you know after entering the scores for the week. Pins over average are also displayed. Many other options have been either added or modified in the program. Data between 101c and current release are not compatible, but all versions after 101c are fully compatible. (00START.BWL) Please!! when you request a modification include as much information you think necessary for me to understand your request. Include printouts, the startup screen and examples. -26-