MicroProse NFL Coaches Club Football README.TXT v1.1 10/18/93 Copyright 1993 MicroProse Software, INC. BUGS FIXED IN VERSION 1.1 ========================= Version 1.1 fixes all known bugs. The major bugs fixed were: - men running backwards. - safeties being scored when ball kicked out of endzone. - kickoff men catching the ball and then standing around - fieldgoals going through the uprights and being no good. - selecting some lineplays and coverages in editor. - joystick not working after playing any league game. - right mouse button clicks in league that trashed stats. - You can now edit defensive plays for the visiting team. - Quiting after saving a game in league will not lose save. The computer sometimes did a poor job of substituting for tired players. This has been improved. NEW FEATURES IN 1.1 =================== AUTO-SUBSTITUTION ----------------- you can now have the computer substitute for tired players. The default is off. Alt-A - Toggles the Home team autosub on/off Alt-B - Toggles the Visitors autosub on/off The computer player does his own substitution so these hotkeys will not affect the computer player NEW ACTION MODES ---------------- You can now play offense only, defense only, or Both(the default) in action mode. The modes are identical to action mode in version1 except you only play on the side of the ball you choose. On the Setup Screen the action button now defaults to ACTION BOTH. This is identical to the way version 1.0 worked. Clicking a second and third time on the action button will switch it to ACTION OFF and then ACTION DEF. SQUIB KICK ADDED ---------------- Now the kickoff menu has 3 buttons instead of 2. The SQUIB KICK button has been added. The squib kick will kick the ball about 40 yards downfield trying to get a strange bounce out of the ball. DOWN BALL COMMAND ADDED ----------------------- The play editor now has a DOWN BALL command. The player given this command will immediately throw the ball into the ground in front of himself. This will end the play and stop the clock. PRINTING OF LEAGUE STATS ------------------------ To print standings and all team stats be on the STANDINGS screen and type Alt-L. This will print the standings for both conferences and the team stats in all categories. To print the league leaders go to the LEAGUE LEADERS screen and type Alt-L. This will print all categories of leaders. HOTKEYS FOR PLAY SELECTION -------------------------- The number keys will now select the tens digit of the current play. If play 17 is visible in the play selection window and the 6 key is pressed then the play selection will display play number 67. In a two player game the number keys will change the home team and the Alt-# keys will change the visitors. In single player mode either way will change the play. ATTENTION TANDY OWNERS ====================== Due to a keyboard incompatibility, some Tandy machines may lock up if you use Alt-Q to end the game from the field. To avoid this problem, wait for the current play to end, go into the timeout menu (Alt-T), then use the Alt-Q key. We have not yet identified the problem, but hope to fix it in a future version. NOTE TO PRO AUDIO SPECTRUM OWNERS ================================= If you have a joystick port on your PAS card and do not load mvsound.sys in your config.sys file, the joystick port will not be initialized and NFLCC Football will not work correctly. Our boot- disk generation program attempts to find and load your mvsound.sys file automatically, but may not succeed in unusual system configur- ations. If this should happen then you will have to add the mvsound.sys device line to your config.sys youself. Consult your PAS manual on how to do this. MEMORY NOTES ============ As more EMS memory is made available, graphic and sound features are added to the game. The following is an approximate breakdown of EMS memory sizes and what features are present (memory values may vary from system to system): Sprite Running Kicking Other Playbooks Digital Mim EMS Level Sprites Sprites Sprites read from Sounds Memory ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 16 Angles 16 Angles 16 Angles EMS Yes 1504k 1 16 Angles 16 Angles 16 Angles EMS No 1376k 2 16 Angles 8 Angles 16 Angles EMS Yes 1312k 2 16 Angles 8 Angles 16 Angles Disk No 1188k 3 16 Angles 8 Angles 8 Angles Disk Yes 1024k 3 16 Angles 8 Angles 8 Angles Disk No 896k 4 16 Angles None 8 Angles Disk Yes 768k 4 16 Angles None 8 Angles Disk No 654k 5 8 Angles None 8 Angles Disk Yes 736k NOTES ON INSTANT REPLAY ======================= When viewing a instant replay with highlights on if you should click on the PREV button to view a previous play you will loose the current instant replay stored in memory. This can be averted by clicking on the SAVE button then viewing previously saved instant replays. NOTES ON MIXING ROLAND SOUND THROUGH SOUND BLASTER OR PAS BOARDS ================================================================ In Sound Blaster Pro and PAS sound cards, mixing levels for external sound sources (such as a Roland card) are usually set via a command in the autoexec.bat file. If you are using a boot- disk to run football, this command will not be present, so you may not be able to hear the Roland sound even though you have Roland music selected. FILE LOCATIONS ============== Team files can be found in the the FOOTBALL\TEAMS subdirectory Playbook files can be found in the FOOTBALL\PBKS subdirectory Game film files can be found in the FOOTBALL\FILMS subdirectory Savegame files can be found in the FOOTBALL\SAVEGAME subdirectory League files can be found in the FOOTBALL\LEAGUE subdirectory All league teams, game films, and save game files are kept in the LEAGUE subdirectory and will be deleted when a new league is created. PRINTER NOTES ============= If your system has a printer connected to the COM port and you have rerouted it though the MODE command then you must print to a file and then use the dos copy command to direct the output to the printer (ie copy stats.txt prn:). Refer to your DOS manual for more information. PRINTING TEAMS ============== To print a team you must press ALT-L when on the main team editor menu. PLAYER FATIGUE ============== When on the timeout screen viewing player fatigue the CTRL-F key will sort players by fatigue level rather than roster position. CTRL-N will sort by name. CTRL-P will sort by position. TEAM EDITOR =========== When editing a player ALT-U will raise each attribute by 1. ALT-D will decrease each attribute by 1. ALT-# (# meaning any number) will set all attributes to # value. PLAYER NAME NOTES ================= The Coaches Club, NFL, and NFLPA licenses give us the rights to use most coach and player names. There are a couple of names that we could not get permission to use. We had to scramble those few names. You are encouraged to edit the teams so all players have correct names. TEAM COLORS =========== For those interested we have included a utility called ADDCOLOR. This is a seperate file and is used outside the game. Addcolor will take an LBM type paint file and extract the colors from it, placing them into a team file. This will change the team colors used during the game. A sample LBM is also included (Redskin colors) to show you how the palette must be ordered. The palettes are not simple so it will take considerable work to get them looking good. But, if you really want your favorite non-NFL team to play then you can give it a try.