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Full Documentation to World Golf / Apex Systems
Typed by iGGY/HF! 6/4/96
Health Warning
For your health, take a break of approximately 15 minutes in every hours
play. Avoid playing when you are tired or suffering from lack of sleep.
Play in a well lit environment, and sit as far away from the television as
your computer equipment will allow. Some people experience epileptic
seizures when viewing flashing lights or patterns. These persons may
experience seizures while watching a TV picture or playing video games.
Even players who have never had seizures may nonetheless have an undetected
epileptic condition. Consult your doctor before playing video games if you
have an epileptic condition, or immediately should you experience any of
the symptoms described below during play: dizziness, altered vision,
muscular twitching, other involuntary movement, loss of awareness of your
surroundings, mental confusion and/or convulsions.
Technical Support
Should you experience any difficulties with this product, contact us
directly at the address at the back of this package. Remember that you are
only entitled to technical support if you have filled in and returned your
registration card to us.
If this product is faulty, you may return it to us for immediate
replacement. Due to the nature of this product, a refund will not be given.
Before you start
Make a back up of your program and course disks. Keep your original disks
in a safe place (i.e NOT on top of a loud speaker, monitor or any other
product that emits a magnetic field), and use your backup disks for general
playing.
You workbench manual will tell you how to make a backup.
Loading Instructions
1. Switch off your computer for at least two minutes.
2. If you only have 1Mb of RAM, you may need to disconnect and external
disk drives and other peripherals.
3. Connect a joystick to your computer, and also a mouse, if you have one.
4. Insert the World Golf program disk.
5. Switch on your computer.
World Golf should then load automatically.
Game Options
General Settings
Throughout the option and information screens, you can use the joystick or
mouse to move the cursor, and the fire button or left mouse key to select.
The main features of the options screen are detailed below.
Game Mode
There are three types of game mode for you to choose from.
Tournament - 64 players take part in a tournament, up to four of them can
be human players.
Practice - Consists of 1-4 human players only.
Skins - 2 human players only. In a skins game, you play for money, rather
than trying to improve your score. The player who holes out in the least
number of strokes wins the purse for that hole. If both players hole out in
the same number of strokes, the purse is carried forward to the next hole.
Number Of Players
Click to select the number of human players to take part in the next game.
Course name
This option selects the course wheer the next game will be played. Five
courses are available at any one time.
Computer skill level
Shown as "pathetic", "novice", "average", "good" or "pro". This setting is
effective for tournament games only and has no effect on human players.
Number of rounds
Select 1,2 or 4 rounds to be played for the next game. A round is a complete
18 hole circuit of the course, so 4 rounds would mean you playa total of
72 holes. Defaults to one round in skins mode.
Auto-caddy
A very useful option for beginners! When this is activated, your club is
chosen for you, and the computer points you in the general direction of the
hole automatically. If, however, you fancy your chances ans wish to do
everything on your own, set this option to "inactive".
Start
Begin a new game using the current settings.
Load
Loads a previously saved game from disk, and automatically continues from
where you left off last time.
Ambience
No, it`s not one of those white vans they take people to hospital in! It
is, in fact, the background noise (birds and so on).
Exit to DOS
Exit from the game completely.
Player Details
This area shows the current player settings. Click on the player`s name to
change it (see" Character entry", below), or click on colours beside the
player`s name to change his appearance (see "Player Colours").
Player Colours
To change the player`s colours couldn`t be simpler. Just click on "Hair",
"Shirt", "Skin" and "Trousers" until you are happy with his appearance. An
example of your setting is shown on the righ hand side of the screen.
Select "OK" to confirm and return to the main options screen.
Character Entry
To enter a players name, you can either click on the letters displayed on
the screen or use the keyboard to type your name as normal. Up to 8 letters
are allowed. Click on "OK" to confirm.
If you wish to save your player`s details, click on "Save", rather than
"OK" whilst in the character entry section. You`ll be presented with a new
screen, showing the names of all previously saved players. Click on the box
where you want to store your player details, or select "Cancel" if you
change your mind. If you select a box which is already occupied, the
previous data will be overwritten with the new data. Make sure your program
disk is write enabled before attempting to to save data to it. Data for up
to 40 players can be stored at any one time.
If, however, you want to load a previously saved player, click on "load" in
the character entry section, and select the player from the list shown.
Select "Cancel" if you change your mind.
NOTE: Character entry is only possible when the character entry buttons are
shown in white.
Playing the game
When the main game loads, you will see the main playing area, which
occupies most of the screen and an information panel right at the bottom of
the screen (we`ll take a closer look at the information panel later).
Use the joystick to play the game. Push up/down to selct your club, and use
left/right to aim. holding down the fire button for one second calsl up the
map screen which shows the entire hole, as well as the flag and current
player positions. Press fire again to leave the map screen.
Taking a shot
Tap the fire button and a small marker will appear on the power bar, which
is located at the top of the information panel. Move the joystick in any
direction to cancel the shot.
HOOK/SLICE ABORT SHOT
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0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
The yellow are on the power meter is used for setting the shot power (0% to
100%), while the red aree at the bottom of the scale is used for setting
hook and slice (curve).
The smallest red block at the top of the scale will cancel the shot if you
allow the power marker to enter it.
press fire once more to start the power marker. Once it enters the yellow
area, you may press fire to set the power level. The further the marker is
allowed to travel to the right, the harder the player will hit the ball.
Once the power has been set, another marker will begin to move back down
the scale. This is the curve marker. You should try to stop it inside the
red block at the bottom of the scale, as close to the centre line as
possible in order to ensure a straight shot. If the marker is stopped on
either the left or the right side of the centre line, the ball will hook
(left), or slice (right) in flight. The severity of the curve depends on
how far away the marker is from the centre line.
NOTE: You don`t have to set hook and slice while using a putter.
Information panel
Across the top of the panel is the power bar, described above.
The rest of the panelis divided into four parts.
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"Ball Lie" indicates the condition of the ground where the ball is sitting.
Certain conditions will restrict your club choice. For example, the maximum
club you can use on the fairway is a 3 Wood, while the maximum for heavy
rough is a 7 Iron.
"Player and Hole Information" shows the current player`s name, hole nuber,
stroke number, hole par (in brackets) and the distance from the ball to the
hole.
"Player Scores" shows the scores for human players only. player scores are
updated after each hole, when every human player has holed out. Scores are
not shown in Skins mode.
"Club Choice" shows our (or the autocaddy`s) choice of club. push the
joystick up/down if you wish to change this. The maximum club distance is
also shown.
After a hole has been played
You will firstly be shown the human player scores, or cash won - depending
on the type of game you are playing.
If you are playing a tournament, the leaderboard will also be shown, with
the name and scores of the human players highlighted in green. Use the
up/down arrows on the screen to scroll through the leaderboard.
Saving a game
This is acheived by clicking "Save Game". This option is only available
while the player scored or leaderboard is being displayed after a hole has
been completed. Make sure that your program disk is write enabled before
selecting this option.
General notes
If the ball leaves the playing area, or lands in water, a one stroke
penalty is incurred. The screen border will flash red to indicate this.
While playing a game, you can press the ESCAPE key to leave the current
game and return to the options page.
Credits
Dave Kirk... Design
Programming
Graphics
Sound effects
Shaun Jackson... Original golfer animation (end sequence)
Paul Nichols... Play-testing
Andy Gibson
Dave Kirk
World Golf is Copyright (c) 1996 Apex Systems. It may not be copied,
reptroduced, hired, resold or otherwise altered under any circumstances.