Rainbow Golf Version 1.00 User's Guide Conversion by Barry Hee to Digital Rainbow 100 Original program by Michael J. Campanella under VAX/VMS Modifications by Daryl Schroeder, Bob Cameron and Mike Raspuzzi Introduction Rainbow Golf is a graphics golf game. It requires a Rainbow 100 with Graphics option and Regis emulation software, (PolyRegis by Polygon Associates Inc) and approximately 140K bytes of free memory (includes memory required by PolyRegis). A colour monitor is optional. Installation The archive file contains the following files, golf.exe : The golf program. golf8087.exe : Also the golf program but makes use of the Intel 8087 maths coprocessor chip. golf.clb : Text file containing your clubs and yardages. *.cou : The golf course files, golf.cou is the default, an.cou is Augusta National, pb.cou is Pebble Beach, pv.cou is Pleasant Valley and wy.cou is Wyantneck the last four are representations of golf courses in the United States. golf.doc : This document. The golf.clb and *.cou must be loaded into your current directory. Playing Golf Type GOLF at the DOS prompt to start Rainbow Golf. Rainbow Golf will ask you firstly about whether you have a colour monitor, and then whether you are restoring a previous game. A total of four players can play during the same round, and each is asked to be identified. The golf club file can be customised, but I see little benefit in doing this. So if you are playing by yourself, type 1 and enter your name. You can specify the initial angle yourself before each shot but the default is usually the best, so just type return to the the angle question and then the course you wish to play, enter the filename excluding the filetype i.e enter PB for Pebble Beach not PB.COU. For each shot, you must first specify the direction of the shot. For all shots you can change the angle by using the left and the right arrow keys. The up and down arrows returns you to the default angle. Once you are satisfied with the angle, type the SPACE bar to move on. Next you choose the club you are going to use. A list of the clubs and their approximate distances is below. Club Yards ------------- 1W 250 3W 220 5W 190 2 210 3 200 4 185 5 175 6 160 7 150 8 135 9 120 PW 100 SW 75 After you have choosen your club, you can specify how hard you would like to hit the ball. This is given as a percentage (0 - 100). For woods and low irons, you probably always want 100% (don't type the percent symbol when typing the value!). For pitching onto the green, you'll probably want to specify a smaller number. Rainbow Golf will compute the actual angle and distance of your shot, taking the wind into account which is displayed by the wind indicator, the velocity is shown by the length of the line from the centre of the wind indicator. The program will then plot the path of your ball. If you shoot out of bounds you are penalised and you must shoot again from the same spot. If you go into the water, you are put onto the shore, near where you entered the water. If you land in a trap, your next shot will not go as far as usual, and you may even catch the lip of the trap! Putting When you finally make it on to the green, and if you didn't chip it in from the fairway, you'll see a new screen with the green on it. There will be an indicator in the lower left-hand corner indicating the amount of slope and direction of the break on the green. The longer the line in the indicator, the stronger the break on the green. Choose the direction as we did before, and what strength you would like to hit your putter with (0 - 100). The path of the ball is displayed as before. You must land exactly within the hole. If you go over the hole, you'll have to shoot again. Once all players have played that hole, you will be asked if you wish to continue playing, if there are no more holes left in the course this question is not asked. If you wish to save this game and continue at a later time you can respond by typing 'Y' to the save game question. At the end of the game, the screen is cleared and statistics for each golfer are displayed on the screen. Golf prints the par, score and difference for each hole played. Golf will tell you how much above or below par you were, and also give you a rating! Happy Golfing. This document contained excepts from Michael J. Campanella's V4.0 User's Guide. The Rainbow Golf program was converted from Golf Version 6.1 by Michael J. Campanella and modified by Daryl Schroeder, Bob Cameron and Mike Raspuzzi running under VAX/VMS.