Full Documentation to World Golf / Apex Systems 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 ------------------------------------------- I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I_I_I________I________I________I________I_I 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. _________________________________________________ I I __________________________________I I I I I I Ball LieIPlayer & IPlayer scores I Club Choice I Ihole info I I I ________I__________I______________I_____________I "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 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. Typed by iGGY/HF! 6/4/96