Canadian Multimedia Golf Source/98RETAIL.ISO/readme.txt

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CANADIAN MULTIMEDIA GOLF SOURCET Version 2.1 1998
Visual Interactive Concepts Inc.
Multimedia Solutions
3800 Steeles Ave. West Suite 114
Woodbridge, Ontario
L4L 4G9

Topics Covered
1)    Minimum System Requirements
2)    Installation
3)    Re-Installation
4)    Score Manager
5)    Trivia Game
6)    Help Tour Guide
7)    General Information
        Navigation, Backing up of Files, Performance,
        Video Problems, Win3.x User Notes, Win95 User
        Notes,Our Internet Link, Technical Support
8)    License Agreement


Important:  Please take a few moments read the following
informationbefore running the program.  It would be to your
advantage to printout a copy of this document.

It is strongly recommended that before any installation or
re-installation, you should first restart your computer and
close down all other running applications.

1)  MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
This program has been designed for PC based running
Windows 95.  Any system with superior configurations
will ensure optimum performance of this program.  The
minimum system requirements are as follows;
    1) 486DX 66Mhz processor ( Pentium processor preferred)
    2) Windows 95
    3) 10 MB (min) to 85MB (max) of free disk space
    4) 16MB of RAM (32MB preferred)
    5) 4X spin CD-ROM ( 8x spin preferred)
    6) Sound card with speakers
    7) VGA with 256 colours - 640 x480
    ( 16-bit high colour preferred)
    8) Mouse or compatible pointing device
*To be able to link to the internet from our CD, a modem and
active Internet account is required.

2)  CD-ROM INSTALLATION

1) After inserting the CD-ROM into your CD drive,start Windows95.
Make sure that all other applications and TSR programs are not
running.
2) From the task bar choose RUN...
3) Type in the drive letter of your CD-ROM followed by a colon,
a \backslash and the word SETUP. (if your CD-ROM drive letter
is D, then you would type `D:\SETUP')
4) Hit ENTER... and follow the instructions on the screen.
To start the program, choose START...PROGRAMS..and click on
the Golf Program icon in the Canadian Golf Program group.

3) RE-INSTALLATION

If for any reason your Internet Connection Utility doesn't work
properly, or has stopped working we suggest that you follow the
methods listed below for re-installation.

We recommend that you restart your system if you are planning
to re-install the Golf program after un-installing it.
Failing to restart your system prior to this exercise may cause
an installation error message to appear.  If you do get this
message you can un-install the portion of the program that
has just been installed, restart your system, then begin the
re-installation exercise again.

First you must un-install the Golf program by clicking on the
un-install icon in the Canadian Golf program group.  This will
remove all files related to the initial installation of the
program.  You can now re-install the Golf program by following
the instructions above pertaining to 'CD-ROM Installation'.

Warning: The un-install operation will remove all Golf
program files. Therefore, it is especially important that you
backup the GOLFCD.LDB and GOLFCD.MDB (Golf Course, Player and
Score information) files in the c:\canglf98\scorcard directory
before attempting any un-install or re-install. Backing up
these files will allow you to re-instate all your course
records and game scores once you have completed a
re-installation.

(Please note the un-install routine will not remove MS
Explorer 4.0 once installed.  For procedures on how
to uninstall programs, consult your Windows 95
documentation)

When you run the Golf Program again, the first time you
click on the spinning globe you will then be prompted to
install/re-install the Internet Connection Utility.

If after re-installing the internet utility, you are still
experiencing problems connecting from the Golf CD to the
internet, the Internet Explorer program may need re-
installation.  To manually re-install this program you
must click on 'inst32.exe' in the root directory of the CD.


4) HELP TOUR GUIDE
At any time while running the Golf program you can
click on the spinning `H' at most main menus to find
out how to get the most out of this CD in terms of
what to look for and how to get there.

5)  TRIVIA GAME
To play the game, simply select one of the four possible answers
provided for each question.  If you answer correctly, get a
hole-in-one.  If your answer is incorrect, choose another until
the right answer is chosen.  Each attempt at an answer counts
as a stroke against your final score.  Water shots or lost balls
count as a penalty stroke.  All other rules shall comply with
those of the RCGA & CLGA.
At any time during the game, you can click on the leaderboard
button just above your scorecard to see how your score compares
to the top ten scores.  You can also look at your individual
statistics (bogeys, birdies, etc...) if you click on the
statistics button.  Your scorecard will keep a running total
of your shots on every hole.

Resetting the leaderboard

To reset the leaderboard you will have to delete the files
contained in the `DATA' directory created on your `C' drive.
The next time you play Trivia, a new leaderboard will be
created.

6)  GOLF CD SCORE MANAGER USER GUIDE
General Information
This document is intended to give you a general overview of how
to use the Score Card.  The more you use the Score Card you
will become comfortable with the interface and it's unique
functionality.The Score Card incorporates a friendly easy
to use interface with which you can record golf course infor-
mation and all of your scores.Golf CD Score Manager is an i
ntuitive and easy to use softwarethat will enable you to
record and manage your Golf games.

Main Screen Buttons Descriptions
Enter a New Game (golf club face) - click this button to enter a
new round of Golf game.

List all Games (sheet paper) - click this button to list games
played by the current player.

Enter a New Course (green&flag) - click this button to maintain
Golf Course information.

Save current Game (floppy disk) - click this button to save the
current game information.

Delete current Game (red X) - click this button to delete the
current game information.

Print current Game (printer) - click this button to print the
current game information.

Quit Scorecard (open door) - click this button to exit Score
Manager.

Other Buttons

Browser Button (binoculars) - this is normally located beside a
text box. Click on this button to select a valid entry to the
text box.
Close Button (close door)  - used to close pop-up windows
without selecting anything or saving changes.
Select Button(green check mark) - click this button to select
therecord pointed with the arrow on the browser grid.
New Button (sheet paper) - click this button to enter a
new item.Edit Button (paper&pencil) - click this button to
edit the current selected item.
Save Button (floppy disk) - click this button to save a new item
or changes to the current item.
Delete/Cancel Button (red X) - depending on the context of your
operation this button can either cancel the current operation
without saving the changes or delete the current selected item.
Print Setup Button (paper margins) - click this button to Setup
current printer or select printers to use.
Print Button (printer) - click this button to print current game
list or current game.

Getting Started
Golf CD Score Manager organizes game scores by associating each
game to a Player and a Golf course.  When the Score Manager is
first installed, its database contains neither Players nor Golf
Courses.  It is up to the user to add all this information.

Step 1 - Managing Golf Course Information
To Add/Display/Modify/Delete a Golf Course information click the
"Enter a new course" button from the Main screen. This will
display the Enter Course Information pop-up window. After
managing Golf Course,click on the Close button to close the
window.

Adding a New Golf Course
a) Click on the New button.
b) Click the Browser button beside the Province/State field and
selectthe correct Province/State of the course. (Note: Score
Manager is installed with Canadian Province/Territories. For
user outside Canada they need to enter their respective
Provinces/State that they might use.)
c) Enter the Course Name in the Course field. (Note: Once the
course is saved you cannot modify its Name and its
Province/State.)
d) Enter the Yardage for each holes of the course.
e) Enter the Par value for each holes of the course.
f) Click on the Save button to permanently save the course in-
formation. Click on the Cancel button to discard the informa-
tion without saving it.
g) To enter additional courses repeat the procedures starting
from the beginning of "Adding a New Golf course."

Displaying an Existing Golf Course
a) From the "Enter a new course" pop-up window, select the
Province/State of the golf course you want to display.
b) Then click on the Browser button beside the Course field to
select the Golf Course you want to display from the list.

Modifying Information of an Existing Course
a) Display the Golf Course you want to modify.
b) Click on the Edit button to start modifying course information
(Note: As indicated before you cannot change the Name and
Province / State of the course.)
c) When you are finish editing the course information, click on
the Save button to permanently save all your changes to the
database.
Deleting a Golf Course
a) Display the Golf Course you want to delete.
b) Click on the Delete button to delete the course. You will be
prompted to confirm that you really want to delete the currently
displayed Golf Course.  To confirm click on the OK button else
click on the NO button to cancel delete. (Note: You cannot
delete a Golf Course if a game is already played at this course.
You will need to
delete all the games before you are allowed to delete the
course.)

Step 2 - Managing Players
To Add/Select/Delete a Player, click on the Browser button beside
the Player field on the Main screen. This will display the
Players pop-up window that shows the players you entered before
and how many games they have in the database.

Adding a Player
a) To add a player simply click on the New button and enter the
player's name on the Name field. (Note: Once the player is saved,
you cannot modify its name.)
b) Click on the Save button to permanently save the player or
click the Cancel button to discard the new player.

Selecting a Player from the List
a) To select a Player from the list, click on the player's name.
The arrow on the side of the list will move to this player.
b) Then simply click on the Select button or double-click on
the arrow.

Deleting a Player
a) Select the player you want to delete.
c) Click on the Delete button to delete the player. You will be
prompted to confirm that you really want to delete the currently
selected player. To confirm click on the OK button else click on
the NO button to cancel delete.  (Note: You cannot delete a
Player if there is a game registered to him/her.  You will
need to delete all his/her games before you are allowed to
delete the player.)

Step 3 - Managing Games
Once you have entered all the Players and the Courses where you
normally play, everything you need to manage your scores is in
the Main Screen. Note that Score Manager will always display,
the last game entered of the last player you managed

Adding a New Game
a) To add a new game, click on the "Enter a New Game" button.
b) Select a Player from the list.
c) Select the location of the game by selecting the Province
/State and the Name of the course.
d) If needed, edit the Date when the game was played.
e) Enter the score for each hole. Scores below par will appear
in color Red.  Scores on par will appear on Black color and
scores above par will appear in Blue color.
f) Enter the rest of the game statistics if desired. You can
also enter some notes about the game.
g) Click the "Save current game" button to permanently save
all the game information. To discard all the entered informa-
tion youcan either click on the "Enter a New Game" button or
close Score Manager.
(Note:  If you forget to save the game before you close Score
Manager,then all the information you just entered will be lost.)

Displaying/Printing a list of previously saved game
a) First select the player of the game you want to display.
b) Then click on the "List all games" button to display all
the games played by the selected player.  Initially it will
list all the games played by the player.  You can further
narrow down the choices by entering specific criteria about
the list. For ex-ample, you can select a Province/State and
the list will only display the games played on that
Province/State.  You can also enter a specific Course and
also specify a range of play date.
c) When you found the game you want to recall, click on that
gameso that the arrow on the side of the list will point to
that specific game.
d) Click the Select button or double-click on the arrow to
select the game.  This will display all the saved information
about the
game on the Main Screen.
e)  To print the current lists of games, click on the Print
buttonand select OK to start printing. Select Cancel to abort
the printing process.

Modifying a Game
a) To modify a previously saved game, you need to first recall
the game as described in the previous procedure.
b) Once the game is displayed on the Main Screen you can start
editingthe displayed information. (Note: You can modify all the
game information except for its location, player name and the
game number.)
c) After all the modifications were done, click on the "Save
current game" button to save all the changes. You will be promp-
ted to confirm that you want to overwrite a previously saved
game. Click on OK to confirm else click on Cancel to abort
saving changes. To discard all the changes you can either close
Score Manager, click on the "Enter a New Game" button or recall
another previously saved game.

Deleting a Previously Saved Game
a) First recall the previously saved game you want to delete.
b) Then click on the "Delete current game" button to delete the
game. You will be prompted to confirm that you want to delete
the currently displayed game. Click on OK to confirm else click
on Cancel to abort delete.

Printing The Currently Displayed Game
a) You can only print the currently displayed game on the Main
Screen.To print a previously saved game, you need to recall
and display the game first.
b) Then click on the "Print current game" button to start
printing. A pop-up window will come up displaying the detail
of the game that you are about to print.
c) To check the current printer setup click on the "Print setup"
button.
d) To start printing the game score, click on the Print button.

Additional Topics - Managing Province/State List
When you are in the pop-up window "Enter Course Information" and
you click on the browser button beside the Province/State field,
the Province/State pop-up window will come up. From this window
you can Add/Select/Modify/Delete a Province/State. Click on the
Close button to close the window.

Adding a Province/State
a) Click on the New button to add a new Province/State to the
list.b) Enter a two character Province/State code. (Note: Once
the new Province/State is saved you cannot edit the Province/
State code anymore.)
c) Enter the Province/State name.
d) Click on the Save button to save the new Province/State. To
discardthe new Province/State click on the Cancel button.

Selecting a Province/State From The List
a) To select a Province/State from the list, click on the
Province/State name.
The arrow on the side of the list will move to this Province/
State.
b) Then simply click on the Select button or double-click on
thearrow.Modifying a Province/State From The List
a) Select a Province/State from the list that you want to
modify.b) Click on the Edit button to start modification of
Province/State.
c) Modify the Province/State name. (Note: As indicated earlier
you cannot modify the Province/State code once it is saved.)
d) After all the changed where done, click on the Save button
to commit all changes.
Deleting a Province/State From The List
a) Select a Province/State from the list that you want to
delete.Click on the Delete button to delete the Province/State.
You will be prompted to confirm that you want to delete the
currently select Province/State. Click on OK to confirm else
click on Cancel to abort delete.The Navigation buttons at the
bottom ofthe screen allow you to sort through golf course
records that you have entered.  TheClose button return you
to the previous menu in the program.

If you need to re-install the Golf program and Score Manager
at any time we recommend that you make a backup copy of the
Score Manager record files (Golf Course, Player and Score
information).  Thesefiles are 'golfcd.ldb & golfce.mdb' and
are located in thescorecard directory on your hard drive.


7)  GENERAL INFORMATION
Backing Up Files
Please be advised that as you enter golf course information in
the Scorecard section of this program the records will be
written to the hard disk.  These records are quite small in
terms of file size and will take up very little room on the
disk.  Please take care not to erase any of these records, as
you will have to re-enter all the information that is lost.
It is considered good computing to back up these files on a
regular basis for safe-keeping.  These files are ' golfcd.ldb '
and ' golfcd.mdb ' and are located at:
  c:\canglf98\scorcard (on your hard drive).If any of these
files are erased or become corrupt, you will have to run
setup.exe again.

Navigation

You can navigate to any part of this program based on your
interests. When your cursor pointer becomes a "hand pointer" you
can then click on that spot to navigate to the area of your
choice.  You will find
the navigation areas anywhere on the screen that changes your
cursor pointer into the hand.  To view our sponsors products
and services you can click on the company logos throughout this
presentation. A `BACK' button will take you back sequentially
through the presentation.You will also find that when you move
your mouse cursor over certainparts of the screen that text
and or images will appear.  These areasare called `hot-spots'.
Not every screen in this program has `hot-spots' but we en-
courage you to move the cursor around the screens in the
program to access all that are available to you.

Performance

To obtain optimum performance of this CD it is recommended
to close all Windows programs that may be open prior to
running the Golf program.  It is also recommended to close
all programs that may be running in the background ( anti-
virus, productivity tools, backup utilities etc.)  For
optimum viewing of the graphical, video, and animation
elements in this program we recommend you set your monitor
to a display setting of 800x600 and a resolution higher that
256 colours.  For information on how to accomplish this, con-
sult your Windows manual.

Prob-lems Playing Video
 If your system encounters problems when accessing the
video files in this presentation, you most likely do
not have the necessary video drivers required to play
video files(.AVI).  Included on the CD is a directory
called VFW, which contains the files your system
requires to play these video files.  Please read the
contents of the readme.txt file in the VFW directory prior
to installing the video files.


Internet and General Use

If you are are planning to connect to
the Internet from the Golf CD, please be advised that
the Internet  Connection Utility will require MS
Internet Explorer 4.0 or better. If you do not have
this version the system will install it on your hard
drive for you.  If you do have this version then only
the Internet Connection Utility will be installed.

NOTE: INSTALLATION OF MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER WILL TAKE
10 TO 15 MINUTES AND REQUIRES UP TO 60 Mb OF HARD DISK SPACE.

If you initially installed the Internet support utility and at
some future date you uninstall the Internet Explorer (IE) pro-
gram, you must also delete the Internet Support utility.
Failing to do so could cause the Golf program to become un-
stable if you click on any of the Internet links.If you need
to re-install the Golf program and Score Manager at any time,
your Score Manager records (Golf Course, Player and Score in-
formation) should not be over-written.  We recommend that you
do not delete the ScoreManager directory or files if you are
attempting a re-install.
If you do delete any of these files, you will also be required
to delete a
file in the Windows directory (c:\windows\vicsc.ini).  Fail-
ing to delete this file will cause you to get a database warn-
ing message when trying to run the Score Manager after the re-
installation.

Technical Support

We have thoroughly tested this product under various conditions,
we realize that some system configurations may cause need for
technical assistance.
We will provide technical support for the Golf Program, and the
Score Manager.  Technical assistance required for Internet
support in termsof connectivity problems should be directed
to your Internet ServiceProvider.

NOTE:  All of the suggestions in this readme file concerning
running/trouble-shooting this program are just that - sugges-
tions.  This presentation has been designed to run on most
PC based systems.We suggest you check the minimum system
requirements necessary to run this program (as mentioned
above and also found on the back of the CD case).  If you
are experiencing extreme performance prob-lems it may be
that your system does not meet the minimum re-quirements.
You should contact the manufacturer or the place of business
where the system was purchased to arrange necessary adjust-
ments to your system.

After viewing this program if you have any suggestion for our
next issue email us at [e-mail] or mail us at
3800 Steeles Ave W. Suite 114,
Woodbridge Ontario L4L 4G9.

8)  LICENSE AGREEMENT

CANADIAN MULTI-MEDIA GOLF SOURCET
VISUAL INTERACTIVE CONCEPTS INC. ("VIC") LICENSE AGREEMENT
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING
THIS PROGRAM:
This Agreement governs your use of the VIC product enclosed with
it including any manuals, compact disk, computer program, infor-
mation, content, forms,
diagrams, drawings and materials contained in or associated with
it, including the web site created by VIC (the "Software").
BY OPENING THE SEALED PACKAGE CONTAINING THE COMPACT DISK AND/
ORBY USING THE SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF
THIS AGREEMENT.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS
AGREEMENT, PROMPTLY RETURN THE UNUSED DISK PACKAGE WITH
YOUR RECEIPT TO VIC FOR A FULL REFUND OF THE PURCHASE PRICE
YOU PAID. In using the Software, you may be required to est-
ablish or access a connection for access to and use of the
online portions of the Software.

1.    Grant of License. This Agreement permits you to use
one copyof the Software, which is licensed as a single prod-
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