Copyright: WiniGolf v1.0


WiniGolf

WiniGolf is a free three-dimentional miniature golf game.

Play tournaments of 6, 12, 18 or 36 holes, or your own selected holes. Play with up to 8 players. Fun for all the family!

The top 10 lists from tournaments and individual holes are stored on your PC.
You may register your best 36-holes tournament score on the Internet top 100 list.

Enjoy the game!

Installation

How to play

Menus

Start Tournament

Stop Tournament

Players

Course

Sound

Music

Scoreboard

Hole of Fame

WWWhole.of.fame

Credits


Installation

Requirements: WiniGolf may be installed on any PC running Windows 95/98/NT with CPU 80386, 80486 or Pentium...

The game will run directly on the desktop, no DirectX- or multimedia drivers required.

WiniGolf is distributed in a self-extracting ZIP archive; wgolfsez.exe including the following files:

winigolf.exe

winigolf.mid

winigolf.hlp

When starting the self-extracting ZIP archive, the files are (by default) installed into the directory c:\athreex\winigolf

The files may be stored in any other location by changing this path during the unzip process. Unexisting directories will be created.

Start the game from the installation directory, or create a shortcut to the executable file onto the desktop, the Start-button menues or the task bar.


How to play

The names of the players must be entered before the tournament can be started.

The course should also be setup before starting. The default is 36 holes.

Hit the ball into the hole with as few shots as possible!

The player with less number of total hits wins the tournament.

You have maximum 7 shots on each hole. If you do not get the ball into the hole, 2 penalty shots are added to your score.

To hit the ball, move the pointer onto the ball and press one of the mouse buttons. Move the mouse while holding down the button. A line is streching out from the ball. When releasing the button, the ball moves in the opposite direction of the line. The power of the shot is reflected by the length of the line.

The left button is default and gives normal power. The right button gives a more powerful shot, and should be used in cases when you have less space to stretch the pointer.

Join the club!

Each time the ball is played the course rotates a random angle of 20° - 360°. This makes the game more unpredictable and fun to play.


Menus

File	Game	Options	Score	Help

New	Start Tournament	Players	Scoreboard	Content

Open	Stop Tournament	Course	Hole of Fame	Index

Save	Sound	WWWhole.of.fame	About

Save As	Music

Print

Exit


Start Tournament

Starts the tournament.


Stop Tournament

Stops the tournament.


Players

Insert 1 to 8 players by name and select between the following start order strategies:

- Sequence	Player 1 to 8 in sequence. Player 1 starts each hole.

- Random	Random start order for each hole.

- Last first	The player with the highest number of total hits starts the hole.

Maximum length for player name is 16 characters.

Shortcut: F2


Course

Select the number of holes for the course, or a selection of single holes:

- 6 holes

- 12 holes

- 18 holes

- 36 holes

- Selected holes

Select between the following hole order strategies:

- Sequence	Hole 1, hole 2, hole 3...

- Random	Random hole order.

- Backward	Hole 36, hole 35, hole 34...

Use Selected holes to preview the three-dimentional models of the holes.

Shortcut: F3


Sound

This check-menu turns the sound effects on/off.


Music

This check-menu turns the music on/off. The menu is disabled if the MIDI-file winigolf.mid is not found.

You may replace the default soundtrack with your own favourite song. The new MIDI-file must then replace the file winigolf.mid located in the installation directory.


Scoreboard

The scoreboard can be displayed by selecting it from the menu or by pressing F4.

Use OK, Close or press the Escape key to remove the scoreboard window.

Keep the scoreboard window open during the game to monitor score and positions. The information will be updated automatically while playing.

The scoreboard shows ranking, player name, number of hits for each hole, total number of hits and total par.

The result (number of hits for current hole) is grayed out for the hole in play.

Shortcut: F4


Hole of Fame

High-score lists for tournaments and single holes.

The Hole of Fame high-score lists can be viewed by selecting it from the menu or by pressing F5.

The top 10 results for tournaments and single holes are stored on the PC.

Use the arrows to scroll through the lists.

Shotcut: F5


WWWhole.of.fame

Connects to the Internet top 100 list for the 36-holes tournament.

An encrypted scorecode to register your high-score is displayed before you are connected to the Internet. Copy this string into the clipboard before you continue in order to paste it directly into the input field on the Internet page.

You will be connected to an HTML internet page. Internet access is required.


Credits

WiniGolf is a free three-dimentional miniature golf game.

WiniGolf version 1.0

A dot.dot.dot production by Athreex development

Created by Ola Lisboa

Freeware 01.10.2000 - All rights reversed!

Thanks to everybody that have been testing the game during the development.

Note: The author takes no responsibility for any problems that may occur by using this software! :-/


Athreex - @3x


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