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- PUNTER V1.0 PUBLIC DOMAIN (C)1994 Steve & Belinda Bye
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- * See the end of this doc for a special message *
-
- Most of the options in Punter are self-explanatory, but I will give you a
- breif run-down of each option just in case any non-racing people are
- having a go.
-
- On booting you should get a short intro showing the credits. Click the mouse
- when it tells you and the main game will load.
-
- Once loaded a text screen will appear. Click the mouse after you have read
- the screen and the game will start proper.
-
- The first screen will offer you a choice of 1-4 players, only select more
- than one player if you have that amount of human equivelents available, as
- the computer does no play as such. You can also select Easy, Hard or Pro.
- Select Easy if this is your first try at Punter. A selection is made by
- clicking on the preferred option which will then be highligted, click on OK
- when ready.
-
- If you selected more than 1 player you will be presented with a game type
- option screen. Click on your preferred gametype (They are all
- self-explanatory) then click on OK.
-
- You should now be on the main menu screen. At the top right of the screen
- will be the season counter and RN (Race Number) counter. Directly below will
- be the details of the next race, here is a typicle example:
-
- Race 1 Doncaster £27000+ 7 Run 7F Going:Hard Draw:Low best
- | | | | | | |
- | | | runners | | Draw advantage
- 1st of 6 races | Total in race | State of
- at meeting | prize money | the turf
- Venue Distance of
- race, in
- Furlongs
-
-
- Each meeting has six races, there are 15 different venues. The total prize
- money is split between the winner, second and third horses. Runners range
- from 4 to 8. The race distances range from 5 Furlongs to 16F (2 miles)
- There are 4 differing going conditions Heavy, Soft, Firm and Hard. The
- advantage differs with course going, and distance.
- The only features here that may need closer inspection are:
-
- Distance: Each horse has it's own optimum distance, it's part of your job to
- discover what it is by studying previous form (results) and listening to
- the expert form man's comments (see later) A horse may be head and shoulders
- above the opposition in a race but if it can make the distance it will more
- than likely lose.
-
- Going: The same applies here, each horse has a preferred going, not quite as
- important as the distance but could effect the outcome of a close race.
-
- Draw: The draw is only relevent over distances up to 8F. If the draw is,
- "Best Low", and your horse is drawn 8 of 8 then your horse is running with a
- distinct dis-advantage. A good horse and jockey however may overcome this
- against weak opposition.
-
- Just below the race info are the horses themselves:
-
- 000000 17 BIT BOY A.FOSTER 6-9-02 G.CARTER 3/1
- | | | | | | |
- | Horses Trainer | Weight to | Odds
- last six races name | carry, Jockey
- | (9 stone,
- | 2 lbs)
- |
- Age
-
- Form: gives the outcome of the last six races the thorse has run in.
- 0=hasn't run or was unplaced, 1=Won race, 2=Come 2nd, 3=3rd, 4=4th, L=Last
-
- Age: A 9 year old horses chance against a 4 year old with similar form would
- give the younger horse an advantage.
-
- Weight: Designed to stop long winning streaks, 2lb is added for a win, 1lb
- for 2nd place. 1lb is deducted for coming last. Obviously the less weight a
- horse has to carry the faster it can run. Just watch a heavy weighted horse
- in a real race to see the effect of weight.
-
- Jockey: Jocks get better the more they win and place. To get an idea of the
- jocks skill look at the jockeys list (later).
-
- Odds: If you put £10 on a horse to win at 3/1 you will get back £40.
- odds X Stake + your original stake back. Betting tax has not been implented
- in this version.
-
- The bottom part of the main screen contains the a menu, which consists of:
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- | Player | | look | Ask | Run | Next | Menu 2 |
- | cash+ | Place | at |tipster | the | players | go to |
- | bet | a | form |for info | race | turn if | next |
- | info | bet | book |costs £25| | applicable| menu |
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
-
- 1) Shows whose turn it is, how much cash you have to spend and any bets made.
-
- 2) Click here to go to the betting menu (see later)
-
- 3) Click here then on a horses name to view previous form. (see later)
-
- 4) Each time you select Tipster costs you £25, but it is well worth it if
- you intend to have a bet, especially in tricky races. The tipster will
- give you his expert opinion on the horses with the best chances and
- why. And may surmise on the race conditions itself.
-
- 5) Click here when all players have done, and watch the race unfold.
-
- 6) If more than 1 player is playing then as each player has finished his/her
- turn they must click this once.
-
- 7) Clicking this takes you to a second menu, which consists of:
-
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- | Player | | | | | | Menu 1 |
- | cash+ | Buy | sell | Loan | Jocks | Start a | go to |
- | bet | a | a | | | newgame | prev |
- | info | horse | horse | | | | menu |
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
-
- 8 ) See 1
-
- 9 ) Purchase a hore (see later)
-
- 10) Sell a previously purchased horse
-
- 11) Borrow some dosh (see later)
-
- 12) View/hire jockey (see later)
-
- 13) Restart a new game from scratch
-
- 14) Return to menu 1
-
-
- This is the SEE LATER part:
- ============================
-
- BETTING MENU:
- -------------
- You will be presented with four different types of bet to choose from, they
- are:
-
- WIN, The horse must WIN the race outright or you lose your bet.
-
- E/W, This is a two-part bet. Half your stake is a WIN bet, the other a place
- bet. If your selection wins you get paid on both the win and place
- parts of the bet. If your selection comes second or third then you
- recieve 1/4 of the odds of your placed horse. The place part has some
- restrictions on runners.
-
- 4 and 5 runner races are WIN only (E/W bets not accepted)
- 6 and 7 runner races are Win and second place only
- 8 runner races are Win, second and third place for E/W bets.
-
- SFC, (Straight Forcast) This bet entails you picking the winner AND the
- the second placed horse in the correct order. You are paid out on
- a formula pertaining to the chances of each, so for example if you
- picked two outsiders with big prices and your bet came up you would
- be paid out a good odds.
-
- RFC, (Reversed Forcast) Exactly the same as the SFC except your selections
- can come in 1st/2nd or 2nd/1st , reversed! The drawback to this bet is
- it costs you twice as much as a SFC. Just like the E/W bet, the RFC is
- in fact two bets, so a £10 SFC costs £10, anda £10 RFC costs £20.
-
- When you have clicked on your choosen bet the mouse pointer will be
- automatically moved into the runners area. Here, depending on your bet, you
- must click on the horse or horses you wish to bet on. If you haveto choose
- two horses you will be prompted for the second, so don't worry ifyou are not
- sure. When finished selecting your horse click on OK. The pointer will now
- be moved to the STAKE part of the screen. Click on the + sign to add to your
- stake, - takes it back of course. Using the right mouse button lets you add
- or subtract from your stake in units of 10 where as the left mouse button
- moves in single units. The right mouse button feature is disabled in certain
- bets. When you are happy with your stake click on OK. If everything went
- well then click on the ACCEPT button, if you are not happy click on CANCEL.
- You will then be taken back to the racecard screen. If you have made your
- bet there is no going back. You can only make one bet per race. (In this
- version anyway) The bet you have made will be displayed in the left-hand box
- on the racecard screen to remind you.
-
- BUYING AND SELLING HORSES:
- =========================
- Click on BUY A HORSE, you will be presented with screen listing all the
- current horses for sale (If any!)You will be given all the usual data on each
- horse plus a few extra bits of useful info:
-
- Wins/Runs
-
- 6/9
- Means the horse has won 6 races from nine runs in it's racing life.
-
- PRIZEMONEY
- Is the total amount of win and place money won the horse in it's racing life.
-
- Click on a horse you wish to buy and if you have enough money it's yours.
- You are asked to confirm with a Y or a N when buying or selling a horse.
-
- VALUE
- This determines how much you will have to pay for a horse if buying it (or
- how much you will get if selling)
-
- The sell a horse menu is also used to keep an eye on your beasts. so take a
- look at their values etc. And make huge profits when you can.
-
- To leave the Buy or Sell horse screens just click on EXIT at the top left
- of the screen.
-
- GETTING A LOAN
- ==============
- Blimey! I wish it was this easy in real life. To get a loan, click on the
- LOAN icon and you will be presented with (you guessed it) the Loan menu.
- You can borrow £1000, £50,000 or £100,000. If you change your mind at this
- stage just click on CANCEL, otherwise click on thesum required then click on
- OK. The money is now in your account. You have to pay it back of course,
- with 10% interest. Payments are debited automatically. You can only have one
- loan at a time.
-
- JOCKS:
- ======
- On entering the Jocks screen you will see the following info:
-
- NAME RIDES WINS RACE SEASON STATUS EXIT
-
- Name and wins/rides are obvious. The race column tells you how much
- that jockey charges to ride in one race for you. They are pretty competitive
- these dudes and to start with they all charge the same, but their fee is
- linked to their current form. This is where getting a retainer on a jockey
- for a whole season can be a good deal, the SEASON column tells you how much
- it will cost to have a jock ride all your horses. If you have more than one
- horse in the race the jockey will choose which he wants to ride.
- The STATUS column just let's you know which jocks are currently available.
-
- FORM BOOK:
- ==========
- Use this to check up on any horse about to race. Click on FORM BOOK then on
- the horse you wish to look at. The form of each of the horses races
- (up to a maximum of 15) will be displayed.
-
-
- Name Distance Weight Jockey Runners
- | | | | |
- 010032 FRONTLINE DONCASTER 8F HARD 9-00 7/1 PIGGOTT 2nd of 8
- | | | | |
- Last 6 Course Going Odds Finished
- runs
-
-
- You can use the information here to determine the horses favoured
- conditions. But remember, horses are not machines. They have their good and
- bad days, just like us. Another racing adage is;
-
- THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A DEAD CERT!
-
- I am not going to go into detail of the mechanics of how I have made the
- horses react to race conditions, it's allpart of thr fun in sussing it out.
- You could buy the source code and find out I suppose....
-
- There are other nick-nacks and odds'n sods in the game. But the rest is all
- quite explanatory. So I will finish this here a bid you good luck.
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