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101 Computers (Bowl101) 250 Annahy Dr, Fortuna, CA 95540 (707)-725-9750 BBS (707)-725-9745 Fax (707)-725-1334 ==========================[ Bowl101r ver 15.0 ]============================ If you have any questions or problems using Bowl101, please use any of the above numbers, just remember it is Pacific time. Bowl101 is a user friendly bowling league management program for the IBM compatible computers. This is a quick overview on how the program functions, you can get by without reading the manual if you wish, as the program will lead you though the setup, step by step, Pressing the F1 key will answer most of your questions when you start using the program. The registered version comes with a printed manual, no opening screens and a few additional features such as individual recap sheets, prize fund and the ability to write the individual recap data to a delimited file. Although these programs are not necessary to Bowl101, they are nice routines. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do for you or additional features you may need. Bowl101 is in its 10th release, so we are doing anything we can to improve Bowl101 by listning to you, the end users. The program may seem like a simple, enter data, get a printout program, but nothing is farther from the truth. Bowl101 will handle odd situations that always arise when you least expect them, such as a bowler, bowling 1 or two games and then must leave and a sub take their place. Just enter the scores as they appear on the score sheet, adding the extra bowler and giving the scores to the games they bowl and 0 to the ones they don't, the computer will handle all of the handicps properly. You may swap bowlers around, cause we all know they never want to keep the same lineup, that would be too easy for you. Editing... If you have tried some programs that you must complete the data entry and then edit your mistakes, then you will appreciat the edit features in Bowl101. Simply press up arrow to back up, page up will take you to a previous bowler if editing teams or bowlers and the escape key will get you back to the main menu at almost any time. The only time you can't backup is when entering data and you said Y this is correct, the program won't let you back up to the previous team. This is because many calculations are done after you complete a team and these calculations can't be recalculated easily, so select Y only if you mean it. DEFINITION OF SHAREWARE Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue using it, you are expected to register. Individual programs differ on details -- some request registration while others require it, some specify a maximum trial period. With registration, you get anything from the simple right to continue using the software to an updated program with printed manual. Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are good programs and bad ones!) The main difference is in the method of distribution. The author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their Shareware. Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or Shareware. The Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because you can try before you buy. And because the overhead is low, prices are low also. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee -- if you don't use the product, you don't pay for it. DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT Users of BOWL101 must accept this disclaimer of warranty: "BOWL101" is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or conse- quential, which may result from the use of BOWL101." BOWL101 is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and find that you are using BOWL101 and continue to use BOWL101 after a reasonable trial period, you must make a reg- istration payment of $49.95 to 101 Computers. The $49.95 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time. Commercial users of BOWL101 must register and pay for their copies of BOWL101 within 30 days of first use or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting 101 Computers. "This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442- 9427 or send a Compuserve message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536" You are encouraged to pass a copy of BOWL101 along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a copy of the latest version of the BOWL101 system. Installing Bowl101.....................................................1 Basic Startup......................................................2 - 4 Custom Startup.....................................................4 - 8 Entering Scores........................................................9 Main Menu Options.....................................................10 Files..............................................................10 Load Data......................................................10 Save Data......................................................11 Do Another League..............................................11 Change Drive...................................................11 Change Directory...............................................11 Delete Files...................................................11 Remove League..................................................11 Start League Over..............................................11 Shell to Dos...................................................11 Backup Data Files..............................................11 Restore Data Files.............................................12 Quit...........................................................12 Input..............................................................12 Weekly Scores.............................................12 - 14 Makeup Games..............................................15 - 16 Startup Data................................................2 - 8 Edit..........................................................15 - 16 Teams..........................................................15 Bowlers........................................................15 Subs...........................................................16 High Games.....................................................16 Startup.....................................................2 - 4 Swap Sub Team Bowler...........................................16 Zero All Scores................................................16 Add/Remove a Sub...............................................16 Add New Team...................................................16 Remove Unwanted Team...........................................16 Arrange Team Order.............................................16 Split Season...................................................16 Edit Date/Starting Lane........................................16 Print...........................................................17-18 Standing Sheet.................................................17 Recap Sheet....................................................17 Alternate Standings............................................17 Defined Alt Standings..........................................17 Score Sheets...................................................18 Print Readme File..............................................18 Skip Perforations..............................................18 Print Screen.txt...............................................18 Options........................................................18.-19 Change Main Menu Colors........................................18 Change Sub Menu Colors.........................................18 Change Help Colors.............................................18 Check For Snow.................................................18 Formfeed Printouts.............................................18 Convert To Proper case.........................................18 Convert To UPPER case..........................................18 Leave Text As typed............................................19 Add Mild Sound.................................................19 Help Screen and Flashing.......................................19 Utilities.....................................................20 - 21 Bowl101 Utilities.........................................20 - 20 Hot Keys and Typs..................................................22 Questions and Answers.........................................23 - 25 ============================================================================== Quick installation. For installing over existing program. Hard Drive. A: <ENTER> INSTALL C: <ENTER> This creates a directory called BOWL and installs Bowl101 files to that directory. Existing Data will remain and now load in the last weeks data and edit Startup and make any additions or corrections (if needed). ============================================================================== Bowl101r documentation. Bowl101 is a powerfull but easy to use bowling league management program. It will run you through the steps almost by itself. This document will be short and as complete as I can make them in the amount of disk space available. To start the program, just install in onto your hard drive by typing... A: or B: and pressing Enter. Now type... BOWL101 and press ENTER again. After a short screen show, you will be asked to name a league name. This is actually a directory name, so use any valid filename you choose. Some suggestions.... THUPM for thursday evening. JUNIORS for the junior league. MIXED for the mixed league. You can create as many leagues as you wish, there are no limits other than disk space. Once you have created the league or directory, you will be taken to the STARTUP. This is where you enter the league name, secretary etc. ╔══════════════════════════[ Startup Menu ]═══[ Bowl101r ver 15.00 ]═╗ ║ League name & sanction #:Wednesday Night Ladies 112096 :║ ║ League president's name......................:Terri Sommers :║ ║ League vice president's name.................: :║ ║ League secretary's name......................:Sue Stowe :║ ║ League treasurer's name......................: :║ ║ League association...........................:Humboldt :║ ║ President's phone number............................:764-3846 :║ ║ Secretary's phone number............................:725-9750 :║ ║ Treasurer's phone number............................: :║ ║ What was the date bowl Last Week..........(MM-DD-YYYY).:02-09-1994:║ ║ Days Beteen Dates Bowled, Usually 7............................: 7:║ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Enter the data it calls for, League Name sanction number phone numbers etc. The next screen will be the type of scoring system you use, there are many supported but most use the NO SPECIAL SCORING SYSTEM. Pressing F1 here will explain the functions better than I can in this short space, so feel free to press it at any time. If you are using an individual handicap, select 0 for team handicaps as the individual handicaps are what you will be using. -1- ╔══════════════════════════[ Startup Menu ]═══[ Bowl101r ver 15.00 ]═╗ ║ Scoring system (N/p/c/d/s/t/m/b/a/o/i)......................... :N:║ ║ Does your league use the field system Usually this option is N..:N:║ ║ Is this a mixed league ........(y/N)............................:N:║ ║ Is this a scratch league ......(y/N)........................... :N:║ ║ Print total pins for the team on standings without hndcp (Y/n)..:Y:║ ║ Number of teams in this League (1-40)..........................: 6:║ ║ Number of bowlers on each team (1-10)..........................: 4:║ ║ Number of bowlers that actually bowl on one team each night(1-6):4:║ ║ Keep average and hndcp from last year for how many games (0-24): 0:║ ║ How many weeks have the teams bowled counting position rounds..:17:║ ║ How many position rounds have the teams bowled so far.........: 0:║ ║ How many games does a team bowl each night (1 - 4)..............:3:║ ║ How many points does a team receive if they win one game.......: 1:║ ║ How many points does a team receive if they win the series.....: 0:║ ║ What is the highest score an individual can bowl? usually 300.:300:║ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ ╔═══════════════[ Type of scoring system used ]═══════════════╗ ║ No Special Options, Scratch or inividual handicaps. ║ ║ Difference Between Team Averages. Only one team gets Hndcp. ║ ║ Team Handicap. Both teams get handicap from bowlers average ║ ║ Match Point, Bowlers are Paired and Bowl Head to Head. ║ ╠═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣ ║ Same as above but use Bowlers Handicap for High Team Game. ║ ║ Combine Match and Peterson Points. ║ ║ Match And Team Handicaps, Use Both ║ ║ Both Match point and Difference between Team averages. ║ ║ Peterson Points, 1 Point for every x point (50) default. ║ ║ Option M, and Diff Between Bowlers Averages for Handicap. ║ ║ Most Pins Over Average Gets Individual Points. ║ ╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Let me go over some of the scoring systems. NO SPECIAL SCORING SYSTEM This is how we started, just the scores of the bowlers and maybe a handicap for the individual bowlers, no team handicaps, or Peterson points etc. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TEAM AVERAGES. The low combined averages of the bowlers on one team are subtracted from the combined averages on the opposing team. Only one team is awarded a handicap. This amount multiplied by the Team Handicap, this amount is entered later. TEAM HANDICAP. The combined averages of the bowlers on each team is subtracted from the Subtracted from Team option (later in startup) and multiplied by the Team Handicap. Also entered later in the startup. If you have more bowlers on a team than actually bowl, then Bowl101 will ask which bowlers bowl when entering scores to calculate the handicaps properly. MATCH POINT. Bowlers are paired before bowling and each bowler is awarded a point or points for each game and/or series won. The points for games and series are determined by the amount entered in the -2- NUMBER OF TEAMS, this is how many teams you have for this league, if using an odd number, you must select the next highest number. In this case you may select F for forfiet when entering scores for this team and the program will supply the wins and losses and may be edited if special circumstanses arise. NUMBER OF BOWLERS on a team. Some leagues wish to have the subs on the team and this can be up to 10 bowlers. If you will have subs come in from the sub list as well, the select a lesser amount than 10 as this is the maximum allowed counting subs. Subs on the team are elegable for high games, subs on the sub list are not, so you can swap the subs up to the team while entering scores if you wish them to be elegible. ACTUAL BOWLERS, this how many bowlers bowl on the team at one time. KEEP AVERAGES FOR HOW MANY GAMES. This will allow you to keep the same average that you came in with for several weeks, if you enter 9 here then the computer will keep that average for 9 games and then calculate it from then on. You will be asked if you wish to calculate or keep this person's average and you will supply the correct answer. The program will change this value for you when the limit is reached. WEEK NUMBER, leave this 0 if this is the first week, this will allow you to print the score sheets for the first week. Otherwise it is the actual week of the scores bowled. POSITION ROUNDS TO DATE. Enter 0 here if you don't use or haven't bowled a position round yet. This option adjusts the auto lane assignment by subtracting the number entered here from the week number to return to the proper lane assignment. It must always be less than the week number Lane assignment = Week number - Position rounds to date. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 7 3 1 6 2 9 510 8 4 4 5 9 810 1 3 2 6 7 Schedule for week 4. ---> 9 1 5 3 4 7 8 610 2 10 7 6 2 8 3 4 1 5 9 Schedule for week 7 with one position round. ---> 5 8 410 7 2 6 9 1 3 6 4 7 9 1 510 3 2 8 This option is used to adjust the lane schedule. The formula for the lane schedule is Week number minus the position rounds to date. So if you are in week 20 and have 2 position rounds to date then the schedule will print for week 18. If you enter a -1 then the schedule will be week 21. This option was added for the leagues that must miss a week or two for some reason. NUMBER OF GAMES BOWLED. Usually 3, but can be from 1 to 4 POINTS IF A TEAM WINS 1 GAME, usually 1 but can be 2 or more. Entering 1 will give you 3 points if the team wins 3 games. -3- Same for series, enter 0 here if not used, or 1 if they recieve 1 point for total wood, can be 1 or more. If 1 point per game and 2 for series you would receive 5 points if you win all 3 games and total pins. HIGHEST SCORE IS 300 unless you bowl candle pin or a different scoring system than 10 pin bowling. Custom Startup SAME AS ABOVE BUT USE BOWLERS HANDICAPS FOR HIGH GAMES. This is a small variation of the difference between team averages, where the high games for the teams are calculated by using the individual bowlers handicaps. COMBINE MATCH POINTS AND PETERSON POINTS. Points are awarded for match points in addition to Peterson points. MATCH AND TEAM HANDICAPS. This combines match points and team handicaps. BOTH MATCH AND DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TEAM AVERAGES. Combine match and the difference between team averages. PETERSON POINTS. Each team gets one or more points for every 50 pins bowled. This point is determined by PETERSON POINTS entered later. Example..... Team 1 bowls a 1967 game, their Peterson points are 1967 divided by 50 = 39.34 50 times 39 = 1950. 1967 minus 1950 = 17 or 39.17 Peterson points. A -50 in the Peterson points field works the same but drops the decimal except for ties. There is no rounding, the decimal numbers are dropped. INDIVIDUAL POINT and INDIVIDUAL SERIES fields later in the STARTUP function. OPTION B, AND DIFF BETWEEN BOWLERS AVERAGES FOR HANDICAP. This option will allow you to use the difference between team averages for the team wins and use the difference between bowlers averages for the individual handicaps. Select scratch League and the handicaps will only determine wins/losses MOST PINS OVER AVERAGE GETS MATCH POINTS This option awards bowlers with the most pins over their average the points designated in the individual points field. Similar to Match points. If a tie occurs, then the points are split. If average is not beaten then closest gets points FIELD OR PYRAMID SCORING SYSTEM. This will allow you to have the teams compete against all teams in the league and not just the ones they bowl against. If you have an eight team league, you can enter 8 and be allowed to have 8 points for the highest game 7 for the second highest, 6, for the third, etc. The number used for the highest game and amount separating first and second is entered later in the startup. Press F1 to get additional help on the other scoring systems available. -4- IS THIS A MIXED LEAGUE (Y/N). Enter Y if you must separate male and female. If it is not a mixed league, enter everyone as a male bowler. If you have a handicap league, then enter N for is this a scratch league. IS THIS AN ADULT JUNIOR LEAGUE. (y/N) Enter Y here only if you wish to have a separate class for high games. High adult bowler, high adult female, high junion male and high junior male. Select N here if your league doesn't have adults and juniors bowling together. SCRATCH LEAGUE (Y/N)... Press <F1>, this will bring up a help screen. If it is a scratch league, then answer Y. If it is a handicap league and you wish to show team standings without handicap then press P for Partial handicap. PRINT STANDING SCRATCH... If you enter Y, then the teams standings will be scratch and the handicaps will still show for the high games. If you use team handicaps, you may also enter Y for scratch league and the bowlers will bowl scratch while the teams bowl with a handicap. Standing sheets will print high handicap games if it is a handicap league. Most of the items here are already set for default, and if you use no special scoring system, then leave them as they are. For individual handicaps, use the male handicap if it is not a mixed league. if your handicap is .80 of 200, then enter that next for the handicap for male and subtracted from. As for manually entering anything, you would only use this if your scoring system is really unique, Bowl101 handles most of them automatic. TRACK 175 200 GAMES, this is a variable and can be modified for junior or senior leagues. The program will print the number of 175 200 games in the alternate standing sheets and print a heading using the supplied numbers. ╔══════════════════════════[ Startup Menu ]═══[ Bowl101r ver 15.00 ]═╗ ║ Manually enter wins and losses (y/N)............................:N:║ ║ Manually enter team handicap (y/N)..............................:N:║ ║ Print the standing sheets and place teams in lane order (Y/n)...:Y:║ ║ Do you wish to zero high games and series every week (y/N)......:N:║ ║ Teams receive points for scratch and handicap games won (y/N)...:N:║ ║ Sort standings sheets on percentage rather than games won (y/N).:N:║ ║ Sort standings sheets on divisions rather than percentage (y/N).:N:║ ║ Track first high game if >= (Default 175)Press F1 for options.:175:║ ║ Track and print the Number of (Default 200) Games Bowled......:200:║ ║ Track and print the number of (Default 450) Series bowled.....:450:║ ║ Track and print the number of (Default 500) Series bowled.....:500:║ ║ Track and print the number of (Default 600) Series bowled.....:600:║ ║ Track and print the number of (Default 700) Series bowled.....:700:║ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ -5- MANUALLY ENTER WINS AND LOSSES. If you enter Y here, the computer will ask for the number of wins and losses for the teams. Enter N here unless you know the program doesn't support your scoring system. MANUALLY ENTER TEAM HANDICAPS. Bowl101 handles almost all scoring systems so enter N here. If your scoring system is not handled by this program, you may choose to manually enter team handicaps, enter Y. PRINT STANDING SHEETS AND PLACE TEAMS IN LANE ORDER. This prints the teams as they would bowl on opposite sides of the standing sheets so you can easily see who bowles who. Entering N here prints them in team number order. ZERO HIGH GAMES WEEKLY, this can be done if you don't track high games for x nunumber of games, the computer will zero high games before entering scores and new scores will show up each week. This can be changed at any time and the scores will carry over each week. POINTS FOR SCRATCH AND HANDICAP GAMES. This will give points for the scratch games as well as the handicap games, so if you have 1 point for each game, you will get 2 if the team wins both scratch and handicap game, not normally used. SORT ON PERCENTAGES If you would rather sort on percentages than games won then select Y here. SORT ON DIVISIONS This will allow you to place teams in divisions using Edit Team. If you select this option the teams will sort by divisions first, then games won and then total pins. ╔══════════════════════════[ Startup Menu ]═══[ Bowl101r ver 15.00 ]═╗ ║ Maximum handicp a male is allowed. Enter 999 if not used....:999:║ ║ Maximum handicp a female is allowed. Enter 999 if not used....:999:║ ║ Minimum handicap. Usually 0. -99 Means 100% of negative Hndcp: 0:║ ║ Number of pins to drop for blind Male. 10=10 pins .10=10%...: 10:║ ║ Number of pins to drop for blind Female. 10=10 pins .10=10%:..: 10:║ ║ Number of games for before tracking most pins over average (21):21:║ ║ Print subs phone numbers on standing sheets (Y/n)...............:Y:║ ║ Averages can't drop below x pins of ent. avg (0 if not Used)...: 0:║ ║ Total individual hndcp for teams can't exceed (0 if not used).: 0:║ ║ Name of editor EDIT if dos 5 or above........:Edit :║ ║ Number of places to show and pay for high games (0-12) Norm=3 .: 3:║ ║ Set a precedence for tracking the high games and series (A-F)...:A:║ ║ Y=Sort on precedence always. N=Only after entering scores (Y/n).:N:║ ║ Number of decimal places in avg (0-3) 3=carryover 2 decimals....:0:║ ║ Number of lane schedules to print on the printouts. Normally: 1.:1:║ ║ Our league must split the teams at lanes (0 if not split)......: 0:║ ║ We start the second half on lane (0 if not used)...............: 0:║ ║ Points for high team game.......................................:0:║ ║ The team that wins the game gets the blind MATCH POINT (Y/n)....:N:║ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ -6- If this is not a mixed league, then all bowlers use the male information. You can limit the handicap for male and female bowlers. Example... You wish to limit the male bowlers to a handicap of 40 and the female bowlers to 60, Enter 40 for male and 60 for female. If a male bowler exceeds 40 for handicap, the their handicap will be dropped back to 40, likewise for female. IE. If their handicap calculates to 65, the computer will convert it to 60. MAXIMUM HANDICAP, leave this at 999 unless you do have a max. if you enter 45 here then any handicap over 45 will become 45. Minumum handicaps, same thing. There are some special options available for these options as follows. Entering a negative number for the teams, subtracted from option will use this number as the largest handicap allowed. Example... -775 with a team average of 833 will return a -58 handicap (775 - 833 = -58) 775 will give you a -40 handicap, if you use a .70 handicap. (-58 * .70 = 40) Negative handicap feature... The last option in the startup function allows a minimum handicap. If you enter -99 in this option, and a 210 in the subtracted from option, the computer calculates the individual handicap as follows.... Any average over 210 (Subtracted from) will be converted to a minus handicap. 218 average would be a -8 handicap, 210 - 218 = -8, a 225 ave = -15 handicap. So use a minimum of -98 if you don't use any of these options. BLIND DROP, usually 10 pins but can be any number, a .10 will give a 10% drop. NUMBER OF GAMES BEFORE TRACKING MOST PINS OVER AVERAGE. this is used for the most improved bowler only, enter 21 if using the standard setup. This option works like this. If a bowler comes in with no average, the computer will wait until he or she bowls 21 games and then it will calculate the average and plug it into the entering average field for you, (You can check this in EDIT BOWLERS.) Those with entering averages won't be effected, as that average will be the one placed in the entering average field. Now the program has two averages, the entering average and the current average, in the most improved bowler, the entering average is subtracted from the current average to give improvement. PRINT SUBS PHONE NUMBER. This can be turned on and off at any time, and if you enter Y here, then the subs phone number will appear below their names in the standing sheets. AVERAGES CAN'T DROP BELOW x PINS. This will allow you to keep an persons average from dropping below a certain amount. If you enter 10 here and their entering average is 130 then their average won't drop below 120. -7- TOTAL INDIVIDUAL HANDICAPS CAN'T EXCEED THIS AMOUNT. This will allow you to set a cap on the team handicap so it won't exceed this amount, if it does, it will be reduced to this amount. EDITOR USED. This is asking for and editor that you prefer to use, if using WP51 you can use this editor to edit the last item printed to a file or screen. If you don't have a favorite editor and you are using DOS 5 or above then you can use the editor in dos, just select EDIT here, if using another editor, enter the path and filename for the editor, for example... C:\WP51 WP. This is handy for editing the lane schedule and adding dates and position rounds. NUMBER OF PLACES TO SHOW AND PAY FOR HIGH GAMES AND SERIES. This is usually set to 3, so only the top three places will show for high games and series, this can be set up to 12. SET PRECEDENCE. This will keep a high score from showing up more than once. You can set it up several different ways including no precedence. DECIMAL PLACES Usually 0, but can be up to two places, scores are calculated with no dicimal place, this is just for show. NUMBER OF SCHEDULES will print the lane assignment on the standing sheets for next week or several weeks ahead depending on what you enter here. SPLITTING THE TEAMS UP. Sometimes the house splits the teams up and some of the team bowles from lane 1 - 6 and the rest bowl on 21 to 30, this is how this is handled. Enter 6 for the split and 21 for the start of the second half. This can be used a different way if you don't split your team, but rotate the league on position night, if you bowl on lanes 1 through 12 and on position night you like to start the first place team on lane 3 the second position round the enter 12 for the split and 1 for the start of the second half. Nothing out of the ordinary will happen most of the time, but on position night enter 3 for the starting lane and the teams will bowl on 3-12 and wrap back to lane 1 again. POINTS FOR HIGH TEAM GAME, usually 0 but can have 1 or more if you do support this option. NUMBER OF PETERSON POINTS. If using Peterson points, then enter 50 here and you will receive 1 point for every 50 pins bowled + the fraction if any. INDIVIDUAL POINTS is if you selected Match point or combination of match and another type of scoreing system. Bowlers are paired head to head and the winners receive the points entered here if they win or split them for a tie. Same for series. Now all that is left is to enter the team names and bowlers names, save the information as START.BWL and you are ready to enter your scores. -8- ENTER SCORES is next. If you wish to quit now and return later, just quit as your data has been saved and at your leisure, run the program and load in the last weeks data, in this case it is 00START.BWL, which contains the names and scoring system only. Now select ENTER WEEKLY SCORES from the INPUT MENU. Just enter the correct date, the computer will supply the system date, so if you enter the scores the same day, you won't have to change it, but always make it the date bowled. If this is a position round, then enter P for Positin and the teams will arrange themselves in position round order and add one to the number of position rounds to date to adjust the lane schedule. Next it will ask for the starting lane, usually one, but can be any number as long as it is an odd number. Now it will ask for the number of subs, It will default to zero, but if you have a sub, enter one or two however many you have. Now the program will have you enter the subs name and phone number. Don't add anything to the phone numbers, as the program will do this for you when you print them out in the standing sheets. All you have to do now is to enter the scores. If the averages or handicap don't show, or are zero, just enter the scores and the program will re calculate them for you and put them in. You must match the score sheets before saying this is correct, as the program will only compute what it has in this screen. If there is an incorrect handicap, say No this is not correct and use the up arrow to step to this and correct it. It will remain as you enter it and not recalculate it. This is done so if you entered the wrong average, you can correct it without the computer recalculating it again. When all of the teams are entered, save your data using the default names, they should be the first 3 characters of the month and then the date. Use a name that contains the date and month, Example, to save to disk with the date JUNE 10th, enter JUN10 and the computer will save all the names and scores to the disk. Replace the program disk now if necessary. Using this format for the date, will simplify the individual recap sheets as the dates won't have to be entered manually. You may shut down the machine if you wish; all data will be on the disk waiting your return. After several weeks, you should have one file for each week bowled. You should have files starting with 00START.BWL, 01JAN07.BWL, 02JAN14.BWL. The filename is important, the first two digits │└─┬─┘ └┬┘ are the week number. The second three are the │ │ └──── Extension month, the next two are the date and the last, │ └───────── Month And Date supplied by BOWL101 is the extension, .BWL. └──────────── Week Number. The dates will be the dates you supply. -9- Start the program as usual. You should see this screen. ╔═══════════════════[ Choose Filename ]═══════════════════╗ ║ >> 01JAN07.BWL << 02JAN14.BWL 03JAN21.BWL 00START.BWL ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Just press Enter and load in 01JAN07.BWL or move cursor to file you wish to load and press <ENTER> Menu Options ╔══════════════════════════[ B O W L 1 0 1 ]════════════════════════════╗ ║ Files Input Edit Print Options Utilities Documentation ║ ╚═╔══════════════════════╗═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ ║ Load ║ ║ Save ║ ║ Do Another League ║ ║ Change Drive ║ ║ Change Directory ║ ║ Create a New League ║ ║ Delete Files ║ ║ Remove League ║ ║ Start League Over ║ ╠══════════════════════╣ ║ Shell to Dos ║ * * ║ Backup *.BWL Files ║ ║ Restore *.BWL Files ║ ╠══════════════════════╣ ║ Quit. ║ ╚══════════════════════╝ This is the main menu. Here is a brief description of each selection. Pressing the F1 key anywhere in the program will bring up a help screen related to the menu option or the input field you are on. Use the arrow keys to get around in the menu, LEFT/RIGHT moves along the top of the menu, down arrow or <ENTER> opens up the highlighted menu selection to show more options. UP/DOWN arrow changes selections. Press <ENTER> to select an option or press selector letter and ENTER. LOAD. Loads previous week into memory, new data is added to this each week by selecting INPUT and then WEEKLY SCORES. Place the cursor over last weeks filename and press <ENTER> This will load previous week into memory. New data is added to this each week by selecting INPUT and then WEEKLY SCORES. You may load in any week's score to print data for that week. Selecting this option also opens up the menu selections that were disabled. -10- SAVE. This option saves the data in memory to disk. This will be the data you will load in next week and append to. If you fail to save data and try to exit, the computer will issue a warning reminding you to save your data. Use a filename to help you remember the date such as JUL07 for July 7. Don't use spaces in the filename. The computer will place the week number in front of this filename and add the extension .BWL to make it 01JUL07.BWL You must load this data in next week and then use INPUT WEEKLY SCORES. This will load in all names and scores from last week and now you will add to these scores. DO ANOTHER LEAGUE This lets you select another league if you are doing multiple leagues. Select this option and a list of leagues will appear in a pick list. CHANGE DRIVE This will allow you to change to another drive to store or retrive data. CHANGE DIRECTORY Lets you change drive or directory to load or save data to another drive or directory or lets you create a new directory to store files. To change to a new drive, just enter the drive letter such as B: or A: Place the cursor on this option and press <ENTER>. You will now be asked for a new directory or drive. DELETE FILES This is to remove duplicate or practice files only, all files are needed for the individual recap sheets. Select files to delete and press ENTER to delete that file. Press ESC to exit this function. You must have one file per week. REMOVE LEAGUE This will allow you to remove a league that has been completed and the directory will also be removed. Use at the end of a season. START LEAGUE OVER If your league is going to be close to the same as last year, you can select this option. After loading the last weeks data, select this option and it will erase all of the data files, zero all scores and save the data in memory to 00START.BWL to let you begin a new league using last years names. SHELL TO DOS This option will allow you to exit temporarily to dos if you have enough memory. You can format a disk, do a directory or other dos functions. Type EXIT <ENTER> and you will be returned to BOWL101. BACKUP DATA FILES This will allow you to back up your data to a floppy drive, it will load files from the hard drive and save them to a floppy of your choice. -11- RESTORE DATA FILES Works in reverse of the above command, it restores data to you hard drive from a floppy disk of your choice. QUIT This option is the only way out of the program. QUIT lets you end the program, and checks to see that you have saved your data. If not, it will issue a warning to that effect. INPUT WEEKLY SCORES. This is where you enter each week's data. Startup or Load data must be used before this option. If you went into edit before this option, the computer will issue a warning that your data has not been saved. It is not necessary to save the data unless you plan to quit. It is just a warning letting you know that you have been in the edit mode. All data will be carried over to the INPUT scores routine, you may save them when you are done. Press the right arrow key and Highlight INPUT and below that, WEEKLY SCORES. A little calendar pops up to help you with the date. Check the date they bowled, the starting lane and the week number. You should only have to change this once as the program will remember the date and proper lane numbers. Now, depending on several variables here is what will happen. If you have the data files on the disk called lanes.asn with the number of teams on preceding the filename such as 6LANES.ASN and you are within the 36 weeks, the auto lane assignment routine will automatically engage and you will be asked to check that the teams are paired properly then press <ENTER>. If this is a position round, press P and the teams will be paired as they should be for position rounds. This will add one to the position rounds to date variable for you so next week you will use the lane schedule we just skipped. Lane assignment schedual found by subtracting the position rounds from week#. If this is not the case, you will be asked to pair the teams by entering the lanes each team bowled on manually. Now you will receive a list of the bowlers for the first team and the computer wants to know how many subs. If you don't have any for that team (no sub bowled), then press <ENTER> to accept the default of 0 subs. If you did have a sub or two, then enter the number of subs here. Several things may happen here. You may be asked for the sub's name if you don't have any subs in the computer yet, or you will receive a list of subs the computer is keeping for you. -12- The list may be larger than the window, and if so, just move the cursor down and the window will scroll up. Highlight the sub's name and press <ENTER>. If the sub isn't on the list, then highlight New Sub and press <ENTER>. This will prompt you to enter the name of the sub and add him or her to the list. It may ask you if it is a male or female and whether you calculate of keep the average. If it asks you 1=Calculate 2=Keep, then enter 1 if you wish to have the computer calculate the average or 2 if you wish to keep the average until the number of games you entered in Number of games to keep average has been reached. If you entered "2" then you will be asked for the subs average. If you entered Y for Match or Peterson points, then you will move the position of bowlers to match the position they bowled in. Select bowlers and subs in the order they bowl by using the up down arrow keys to highlight the first bowler and press ENTER. Highlight the second, etc. Select only the number of bowlers bowling. Press ESC after the last bowler. You only have to do this if you are using one or more subs. Next you will be taken to the input screen. Here you enter the handicap if any, and scores for the 3 games. You will only be asked for the handicap for the first week if the computer doesn't know it yet. Enter the bowlers scores next. If a bowler didn't bowl or just bowled one or two games, enter the scores that they bowled. If they didn't bowl, then give them a zero or a blind score. The computer can figure things out if a bowler bowled one game and a sub bowled two. Just enter the scores as they are on the recap sheet. If you have to use a blind score, just enter B for BLIND and the computer will convert it to their average - 10 pins and insert it as a negative number. That is for a bowler with a 165 average and you drop it ten pins for his or her blind score, simply enter B or -155 etc. Now the computer will know that this is a blind score and give the team the proper scores and leave the bowlers scores alone. If you don't use a 10 pin drop in the average for a blind, then you will just enter the proper score manually as a negative number. ie a 15 pin drop on a 150 average should be entered as a -135. To enter a zero score that was actually bowled, enter a Z and the bowler will be credited with a game bowled and retain his or her handicap. You may back up with the UP ARROW, you may press ESC wherever you are in the data entry field and the computer will drop to the bottom and calculate all scores for you. If on game 1, the up arrow will take you to the handicaps. -13- If you made a mistake and need to ask for subs or the team handicap again, just press PAGE UP and the computer will ask for the number of subs and team handicap again. If you wish to abort, you can press ESC and will be allowed to abort and re run the program again loosing only the information just entered. If you wish to suspend entering data at any time, you may. Just press ESC when it asks is this correct for the team and you will be asked to abort. This function will allow you to save your data and resume later. When your data is saved, you may load it back in again, Just select input weekly scores and the program will ask you if you wish to resume data entry. The program will take you to the team after you selected suspend data entry. Just enter the scores for the remaining teams and the program will update all of the teams scores, including the ones entered before you suspended. Now do the same for the rest of the teams and bowlers. When the last team and bowler are entered, you will be taken back to the MAIN MENU again. Select FILES again and SAVE DATA. This time choose a filename that reflects the date. If the date is September 4th, then enter SEP04 and the computer will supply the .BWL extension. Be sure to save to the data disk if using one. The computer will add the filename to the week number and make it 01SEP04.BWL. This is used to print the individual recap sheets. Now that everything is safe on the disk, move over to the PRINT function and print the standing sheet and the recap sheet. Make two copies of the standing sheet if you wish and you will have one for your records and one for the bowling alley. You have room for 10 lines of comments at the end of the printouts. Pressing <ENTER> with no text, or Page down, will terminate this function. If you see a problem with any score. you may edit any team, bowler, subs name, or score with the edit option. If you find an error with an individual game bowled, it may be better to re-enter the scores again. This will keep the high games correct. Just load in the previous weeks data and enter the data again. While editing a bowler or sub, you may page forward and back with PG UP and PG DN to edit more than one bowler on the team. This keeps you from having to go back to the menu if you have more than one score to edit. You could also run MAKEUP GAMES if you have to change individual scores, this will preserve the scores and you just have to step over the proper scores and change the scores that are not correct and the computer will re calculate high games, wins and losses etc. You will notice you will have the option for the handicap, but it is calculated for you when you edit scores. Just change games bowled or number of games and the handicap will re-calculate for you. Note: If you change the average and the option calculate keep = 1 then the computer will recalculate the average. If keep = 2 and the number of games bowled is smaller than the number games to keep the average. Then it will keep the average you enter. -14- MAKEUP GAMES. You may now makeup games without having to enter all the data for each week. Simply select makeup and supply the makeup week and the team to make up. Now enter the scores for the makeup team or just correct any incorrect scores for the teams or bowlers for that week. This routine is exactly like the input scores, but you only have to enter the scores for the team that wasn't there that week. When you enter all of the scores, you will be asked for the wins and losses. You will be prompted to update all scores from the makeup week to the last week, the program will simply compute the difference between the scores before the makeup week and add this amount to the makeup week and all weeks after until it runs out of files to process, in which case it will compute the average and handicap and save your data. It might be a good idea to backup your data files before using this function. STARTUP DATA. This will be the first option you will use to enter the team names and other data for the league. You may use this option at any time to step through all of the teams, bowlers and subs to make changes, such as increase the number of bowlers. (See the tutorial for more information.) EDIT TEAMS. This option will let you edit any team score. Just pick the team you wish to edit and press <ENTER> and change the scores needed. Pressing PG up or Pg down will let you go to the next or previous team. EDIT BOWLERS. Select the team by pressing <ENTER> on it and then select the bowler by highlighting the name and pressing <ENTER>. Now you are in the edit screen. Use up and down arrow to select what you wish to edit, Page Down or UP will move you to the next or previous bowl on this team. The handicap is re calculated after changing the number of games or average. The option 1=Calculate 2=Keep is if you have chosen more than 0 weeks to keep the averages in Startup. If you entered more than 0 then you must tell the computer if the bowlers average will be calculated or kept. If you choose to keep this bowlers average, then enter 2 here if not, enter 1 and the computer will calculate the averages from now on. Enter the entering average if one is available. If the bowler does not have one, the program will supply the entering average after the bowler bowls their 21st game or what ever you entered in the Legal average in the Startup, by calculating the average and placing this into the entering average. Input all scores asked for such as entering average, number of 175, 200 games, 450 500 600 series. The computer will continue to add to these numbers as the bowlers bowl them. -15- If you starting at week 1, then you may leave them as 0. EDIT SUBS. This is almost identical to the editing the bowlers. EDIT HIGH GAMES. This is where you may edit HIGH GAMES. All HIGH GAMES may be edited here, team or bowlers. EDIT HIGH GAMES You can edit high games with this option and edit team or bowlers high games. EDIT STARTUP. Sometimes you need to edit the number of teams or bowlers or things like that. You can change the startup values here if you want add another team bowler or just you know the program won't handle the wins losses properly because of special circumstances and you want to manually enter team wins and losses for this week only. You may also select Forfeit if you want to be asked for wins and losses for one team after entering the scores. SWAP SUB/BOWLER. If a bowler quits and is replaced with a sub, you can use this option to drop the bowler down to a sub and move the sub up into his or her place. This util can be used to trade bowlers from one team to another or to change the lineup. You may also swap bowers while entering scores by asking for 1 sub and the last option in the list is to SWAP SUB BOWLER. ZERO ALL SCORES. You may use this option to start a new league or start over. This will zero all scores but leave team and bowlers names and optionally entering averages. ADD/REMOVE SUB/BOWLER. You may add or remove a sub with this option. Just remember Subs that have been removed will not be part of the final average sheets. This option is mainly to add a sub. They will be included in the individual recap sheets. You can bring in a new bowler this way and swap them for a vacant bowler on the team or swap them for a bowler to bring the old bowler to the sub list. If you removed a sub and wish them included in the final average, then edit them in the last week. ARRANGE TEAM ORDER. Allows you to change the order of the teams. SPLIT SEASON This will zero the team standings or just wins and losses or wins losses and high games to allow you to bowl a split season. If you wish to have a different set of scores zeroed, you may just edit the teams and page down after each team and modify just the selected scores you desire. Select this option when you have a split season and before entering scores for the week. You will have to maintain the records for the first half and combine them at the last half if you want the combined total. EDIT DATE/STARTING LANE This will allow you to edit the date bowled and the starting lane. These will be updated automaticaly by Bowl101. -16- PRINT TO SCREEN FILE OR PRINTER. All of the print functions may now be directed to the screen the printer LPT1, LPT2 or a file. This will allow you to preview the printouts or load the file created into a word processor for additional modifications. Using the file function, it is possible to write to a device such as COM1, COM2, SCRN: by substituting a devicename for a filename. See your dos manual for details on device names. Writing to screen, creates a file called SCREEN.TXT. PRINT STANDING SHEET Print standing sheets with this option. Print two, one for your records. PRINT RECAP SHEET. Shows all scores for bowlers and subs that bowled that night. Prints most pins over average or series at the bottom of the sheet. You can now select the handicap to print, the Prior Handicap, or the current handicap. The Prior handicap is the handicap used when bowling the scores shown. The current handicap is the same as on the standing sheet and used for next weeks handicap. ALTERNATE STANDINGS You can selectively print headings, standings, number of 175 games, 200 games 450 series, 500 series 600 and 700 series, Subs, high games, bowler standings, When you select the items by pressing ENTER while they are highlighted, they will be printed, this will place a check mark next to the item. Select the items you wish printed in the order you want them printed. The program will move the items selected to the next available position on the menu, allowing you to have the printouts in any order you wish. To select an item, Highlight it and press ENTER. To de select and item, do the same. If you don't Check them then they won't be printed. To move an item to the top after selecting several options first, de select all items and select that item first. The selections you make here will be saved and you will just have to select print selected items next time. Print top averages, or combine many printouts into one to make a custom printout using any combination. The last selections you make will be stored and the menu will retain the check marks as you last saw them, the next time you select Alternate standings, then you will be setup like the last time. SEND PRINTER CODES. This is an advansed feature that will allow you to insert printer codes before and after printing anything to the printer. This works great for changing paper sizes, fonts, or to letter quality print. The second printer code is to set the printer back to normal when complete. Consult your printer manual for the codes needed, Bowl101 provides the ESC Code, you just supply the codes to make the changes desired. -17- SCORE SHEETS. Score sheets can be printed on a master form. Prices are included. Now the program will print score sheets on plain paper. You must set your printer to print the standard IBM graphic set. If your printer prints garbage while trying to print these score sheets, consult your printer manual on setting it for the IBM graphic set. Due to limited disk space this routine has been left out of the Shareware version. Samples are included to show the output. PRINT README FILE This will give you additional information about Bowl101. SKIP PERFORATIONS This will allow you to set a page break to give you better control over where the pages will break, count is from page 1 and you have three pages to set a formfeed. Remember to count the lines from page 1. PRINT AVERAGES. This will allow you to print a sheet containg averages for certain series. PRINT HANDICAPS This will print two sheets with handicaps for certain averages, you can select the percentage and amount to subtract from. PRINT SCHEDULE This will print a schedue for the year for the number of teams on your league. If you print this to the screen an select editor from the Utility menu, you can insert position rounds or insert dates before printing to the printer. CHANGE MAIN COLORS. This will let you change colors of the main and input screens in the program. Foreground has 15 colors, background has 7 CHANGE HELP COLORS. This will change the colors of the help screens within the program, not the ones called up with the F1 key. CHECK FOR SNOW. Some older color monitors flicker when the screen updates. If you see snow or the screen flickers, try using this option. Just press <ENTER> on this option, it will toggle the snow on or off. FORMFEED. Places a CHR$(12) at the end of the printouts and ejects the paper after each printout. PCASE. This converts the text you type in to PROPER CASE. When the text is entered and you press <ENTER> the text will be converted. If you press <UP OR DOWN ARROW> then the text will remain as you typed it in. UCASE. Converts all text entered to UPPER CASE. -18- LEAVE TEXT AS TYPED. Leaves the text as typed, no conversions are made SOUND. Toggles a small SOUND on and off and changes the chirp to a mellow beep HELP SCREEN. This will remove the HELP SCREEN from the main menu. TOGGLE HELP SCREEN. You may turn off the help screen that appears at the main menu. Doing this will also turn of the blinking messages at the bottom of the screen. UTILITIES. These routines have been moved from the main program to a separate program. This allows the program greater speed and allows for future expansion. Data must be saved before running the utility option as the variables are not passed. The program will prompt you if the data has not been saved. -19- UTILITY MENU ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │Files Utilities Team Sorts Bowler Sorts Yearly Sorts │ ├──────────┬──────────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────┬────────────┤ │Load │ Final Average│ Scratch Series │ Scratch Series │Team Sorts │ │Change Dir│ Ind Recap │ Handicap Series │ Handicap Series │Bowler Sorts│ │Shell │ Prize Fund │ Scratch Game │ Scratch Game │Sub Sorts │ │Bowl101 │ Most Improved│ Handicap Game │ Handicap Game ├────────────┘ ├──────────┤ Delimited │ Total Pins+Hndcp │ Average │ │Quit │ Hndcp Sheet │ Hi Team Game │ Total Pins │ └──────────┤ Average Sheet│ Hi Team Series │ High Games │ │ Print Sched. ├──────────────────┤ High Series │ │ Name Address │ └──────────────────┘ └──────────────┘ These extra routines are included in the registered version. FINAL AVERAGE. Lets you print the averages in sorted order by last name first. This is turned in at the end of year, you can print this anytime for your own reference. INDIVIDUAL RECAP SHEET. A complete listing of all team, bowler and subs activity will be generated with this option. Follow the prompts to create the datafile and print the recaps. If your data spans two disks or more, complete the recap using disk 1, but press ESC when it asks print to screen, lpt1 or file. Now replace data disk with the next disk and select append to recap. Continue until all the datafiles have been loaded and then print the recaps. PRIZE FUND. Enter the amount of wins and amount per win and the computer will print out a sheet showing each bowler and amount received. It will also tell you how much money to withdraw, and what denominations needed, a real time saver. You may print labels with the amount each bowler gets for prize money or pin money with this option, it will also determine the number of 20's 10's 5's 1's etc needed to fill the envelopes for each bowler. MOST IMPROVED. This option will find the most improved bowler, male and female based on the entering average and the current average. It will print the top 10, male and female. DELIMITED FILE. This is a routine to print each team, bowler and sub in a delimited file for processing information yourself. Included on the disk is a file called RECAP.DBF which is the structure you can use if you use Dbase III. HANDICAP SHEETS. This was moved to the main program and available in the Shareware version. This will print out a handicap sheet using user defined parameters. AVERAGE SHEETS. This is also included. This will print out two sheets with averages based on 3 game series. -20- NAME ADDRESS. ╔══[ Bowlers Database ]══╗ ╔════════════[ Record Number = 1 ]═════════════╗ ║ Add Name ║ ║ Name.....................:Randy Stowe :║ ║ Search for Name ║ ║ Address........:250 Annahy :║ ║ Print one Label ║ ║ City.....................:Fortuna :║ ║ Print all Labels ║ ║ State............................:Ca :║ ║ Print Records ║ ║ Zip..............................:95540 :║ ║ Print Charges ║ ║ Phone Number.....................:707-725-9750:║ ║ Create Database ║ ║ S.S. Number......................:555-555-5555:║ ║ Return to Main Menu ║ ║ WIBC/ABC Number..................:123456 :║ ╚════════════════════════╝ ║ Date Paid............................:09/12/92:║ ║ Birthday.............................:11/09/92:║ ║ Number of Charges...........................:1:║ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ This will allow you to create a database of all of the bowlers in this league and track the number of charges. When using it for the first time, select Create Database and it will import all the names of the bowlers from the *.bwl files if you have one loaded. Once the database is created, just add the information needed. Pressing PG up and PG down will allow you to scroll though the database. To search for a name, just select Search and enter all of part of the name and the search will find that bowler, or you can continue the search if it picks the wrong one. You may print one label if you desire for the found bowler. To print label for everyone, select Print Labels. To print all the information for the bowlers, select Print Records. To track charges, select print Charges. In the near future, I will try to link this datafile with the main program so you can enter the charges as you enter the scores. SORT ROUTINES. Sort bowlers and teams, series, averages and games in a number of ways. This data is created each week for this weeks data except for the year to date on the right. The year to date is games + handicap, if no handicap then it is scratch. YEARLY SORTS This will sort on high game/series scratch and handicap for the team, bowlers and subs. -21- SOME HOT KEYS AND TIPS...... F1...........Will always bring up a help screen, unless you are printing data. F2...........Brings up a calculator only when you can enter data. UP ARROW.....Takes you up in a menu selection or back on an input field. Using the UP or DOWN arrow will let you keep the text as you typed it into a field and you have selected UCASE to convert text to UPPER case, Pressing <ENTER> after entering Mcdonald will convert it to MCDONALD, UP or DOWN ARROW will keep it as Mcdonald. DOWN ARROW...Moves you down as the up arrow moves you back. PAGE UP......Scrolls to previous team, bowler, or sub while editing. For example... You are editing a team and need to edit another. Instead of returning to the menu and selecting that team, just press Page Up to scroll to the previous team. The computer will beep if you try to go below team 1. PAGE DOWN....Same as scroll up but moves to next team, bowler, or sub. It will not allow you to go beyond the last team, bowler, or sub. ESC..........The ESCAPE key will always return you from a function such as editing or any function where you don't want to be, or all done with. It will not let you escape from the Input scores routine but will exit from the Input routine and calculate the scores, then return you to the "Is this correct Y/N" prompt at the bottom of the screen. If you press ESC here, it will ask you if you wish to abort. In the data entry screen, pressing ESC will total scores for you. If you had to go back and edit any score. Press ENTER on the last score you changed then hit ESC, this will take the cursor through the rest of the scores and total them much faster than stepping over them with the enter key. CTRL U.......This key will restore a field as long as you remain on that field. If you accidentally erase a field, press Ctl U and it will restore it for you. Hold down the CTRL key and press U. CTRL Y.......This deletes the data in the field. Pressing any alphanumeric key at the start of a new field will also erase the contents of the field. The arrow keys will let you scroll in the field if you wish to edit just one character. -22- Questions and Answers. Question... Can I stop in the middle of entering scores and resume at a later time? Answer.... Yes, you can press ESC after entering any team and the program will allow you to save your data or use S for suspend. Just select Input weekly scores to continue entering the data, the program will start you where you left off. Question... I don't see a cursor on the menu selections. Answer.... If you have a mono monitor, the colors may be set so both colors are the same on your monitor, select change colors from the option menu. Question... When running Individual recap sheets, the computer refuses to load one week and the stops. Answer.... When using sequential files, the data must match the variables you are loading in. Sometimes this gets out of sync and it just won't load. Load the data into the bowling program as you were going to print it. Print the data for that week and look for anything out of the ordinary. Example a number with a % sign %987333 or a number larger than it should be, a score for a games 1-4 larger than 32767 will cause it to crash. Edit each bowler and or team. If you find the problem, then fix it and save it again, then try again. If nothing you try seems to work, re enter that week and save it again. Question... Total wins and losses don't compute properly. Answer..... You have not set the number of points per game and series properly Edit startup and enter the proper number of points for each game and series. If you enter 1 point per game and 1 for series, you will have a possible 4 wins, 1 for each game and 1 for series. Question... In the second week, I found an error in a bowlers score that wasn't caught when entering the data for week 1. How do I fix this. Answer..... The easiest way is to use the makeup function and redo the scores. This option will recalculate all scores after you complete the makeup. Question... My subs are not receiving recognition for high games bowled. Answer..... If your subs are eligible for high games and series, you must place them on the team as a member of the team before entering scores. Another option. If you have a 5 man team, and allow 2 subs for each team, enter 7 for number of bowlers. -23- Question... Lane assignments don't work or the teams don't match up correctly. Answer..... If the lane assignment is incorrect, then the problem lies in the week number and the position rounds to date. The proper lane assignment file is obtained by subtracting the week number from the position rounds to date. Question... I discovered an error after pressing ENTER while entering scores. Answer..... Easy, just press up arrow to back up. Press PG up if you want to change the sub information or manually re-enter team handicaps. If you found the error after you left that team and are on the next team, you can't back up you can continue and run makeup and correct it. Press ESC at the first bowlers scores and ESC when it asks is this correct. You may abort this function, but the program will re-run itself to clear any stray scores. Load in last weeks data again and reenter the scores. I found it quicker than trying to edit mistakes. Question... The menu doesn't show the cursor and I can't tell what option I'm on. Answer..... Select Colors from the Bowl Util menu or Options from BOWL101. Select change main colors. Press 1 15 times and watch the colors cycle. Press 7 times and see the background color change. Select the desired colors and then exit and save. Question... Not much disk space, what files do I have to have to run BOWL101 Answer..... The files you have to have on the disk are BOWL101.EXE, BOWL.MNU, BOWLHELP.HLP, and if you have 12 teams 12LANES.ASN. You should not save your data on the program disk, use an additional disk for the data. Question... It didn't ask for the average for a bowler I told the computer to calculate, but did for the ones I told to keep. Answer..... Right, the computer needs to know the average of the bowlers you wish to keep the average for. It will calculate the average for the others. It will ask you for the handicap for the bowlers that don't keep their average only for the first game, after this the computer knows the average and can calculate the handicaps for you. Question... All subs are eligible for high games and series but they are also allowed to bowl on other teams, they are on the team roster, how can they bowl for another team. Answer..... For this you need to move this bowler to that team before entering the scores. Use the swap sub/ bowler option to move the bowler to the sub roster and then up to the other team. See docs for a better description. -24- Question... I have several blank positions on the teams, is there any way to keep from having to give them the same scores each week? Answer.... Yes, just list these bowlers as Blind. When the program zeros out the scores before entering this weeks scores it will look for every bowler called BLIND. If a bowler is found, it will keep the score you gave it the last week. Question... I have some that are not handled properly when I have proper case set. Answer.... When the text is entered and you press <ENTER> the text will be converted to proper case or upper case which ever you have selected. If you press <DOWN ARROW> then the text will remain as you typed it in. Question... Out of memory error, is there any way to get more memory space? Answer.... Remove any memory resident programs that may be installed. Install more memory. Call me and let me know how many teams and bowlers you have and I will send you a modified copy that uses less memory. Question... I have to manually enter the lanes the teams bowl on, I thought I had auto lane assignments. Answer.... You will have to copy the lane assignment file to your working disk. If you have 12 teams the copy 12LANES.ASN to your working disk and the lane assignment will work for you. If you have a problem and wish to contact me, please include a printout of the startup data so I can see how you have the program set up. Question... We have Bantam leagues and sometimes a bowler bowls a zero score. The computer doesn't give him credit for his game bowled. Answer..... The program uses zero to determine if a bowler actually bowled. You can place a z for zero in place of the zero and the computer will treat it as a zero score but credit the bowler with a game bowled and retain the bowlers handicap for the team. There isn't a week go by that I don't add or change something to improve the program to better suit your needs. When I get a collection of routines complete, I send out an update. This is free if you have just registered and I have already sent you a registered version within 6 months or less. Otherwise a small fee is required usually $20.00 but is subject to change. If you have special request and I think others may be able to use it, I will make the modification at no charge and send you that modification when complete and include this in a future update. I am going to try to complete an update every 6 months. -25-