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(sim development) Qooty - The application, now available
Ok a couple of folks have asked me if I could send them the program that I use to run the fake footy.
I'm glad to see that I have now created a sendable copy (zipped). It doesn't take a lot of room, probably about half a meg when full of leagues and stuff. It also runs ok, though there are some points to make clear.
You need to have QBasic on your computer, and your computer needs to KNOW that QBasic exists. You can download it off the net for nix, though I'm not sure about telling your PC it exists, it was probably in the 'Paths'.
The game is far from faultless. Some things break it, eg pressing enter to play a game when a league has been chosen which doesn't have any teams in it. Try not to make the game do things which make it wonder what the hell you're asking. If the blue screen comes up, hold down Alt while pressing 'F', then let go of alt and press 'E', that quits from the application and starts it again.
About once every 100 goes, a match decides that one of its quarters will be endless. If you see the time go into negative figures, hold down ctrl and press Pause/Break, then quit it as explained above, and try again.
As we've seen, sometimes the stats are a bit hard to comprehend.
There's no real graphics, its a boring text-based spectator-sport.
The 'Voice-com' won't work, it was based on a VERY outdated synthesiser. Even if it did, it slows the game down, as can the 'print-out' option in gameplay (see the setup screen)
Cursor movement is navigated using the numeric keyboard, with NUMLOCK ON!
The game might run too fast or two slow, depending on your computer. If so, get my attention and I'll send a fixed 'game.bas' file, with a changed line to hopefully fix that.
That's most of the faults. Here's the plug for the decent parts :
* You can make and play as many leagues as you want.
* You can swap players, even between leagues.
* The latest played game can be viewed in a graph format, score by score. Game archives can also be graphed, but I'd need to explain a manual thing to do in this case.
* There is a best and fairest count option available.
* All game stats can be saved, also highest scores, and ladders for all rounds. (There is an error in the ladders which can fixed manually, just ask me).
* Every stat can be listed in a 'top 20', 'top 40' or 'top 60' format.
* You can add, change, delete your own commentary, as long as you don't add more than there are available slots.
* Debuts and milestones are highlighted.
* You can see player scores for a match as the game plays (press Spacebar to toggle).
If anyone wants a copy, please let me know your eMail addy, or eMail me to request one.
Just remember, its a bit fiddly to get going for a start, it has a few faults, and it is not by any means a high-quality application.
Mind you, one bloke I sent it to reckoned it was one of the best things he'd ever run across, of course I was chuffed when I heard this!
Cheers,
Kev
kjcourt@lexicon.net
PS : Yes, I will be your helpdesk for a while, until you've got it up and running.
Ok a couple of folks have asked me if I could send them the program that I use to run the fake footy.
I'm glad to see that I have now created a sendable copy (zipped). It doesn't take a lot of room, probably about half a meg when full of leagues and stuff. It also runs ok, though there are some points to make clear.
You need to have QBasic on your computer, and your computer needs to KNOW that QBasic exists. You can download it off the net for nix, though I'm not sure about telling your PC it exists, it was probably in the 'Paths'.
The game is far from faultless. Some things break it, eg pressing enter to play a game when a league has been chosen which doesn't have any teams in it. Try not to make the game do things which make it wonder what the hell you're asking. If the blue screen comes up, hold down Alt while pressing 'F', then let go of alt and press 'E', that quits from the application and starts it again.
About once every 100 goes, a match decides that one of its quarters will be endless. If you see the time go into negative figures, hold down ctrl and press Pause/Break, then quit it as explained above, and try again.
As we've seen, sometimes the stats are a bit hard to comprehend.
There's no real graphics, its a boring text-based spectator-sport.
The 'Voice-com' won't work, it was based on a VERY outdated synthesiser. Even if it did, it slows the game down, as can the 'print-out' option in gameplay (see the setup screen)
Cursor movement is navigated using the numeric keyboard, with NUMLOCK ON!
The game might run too fast or two slow, depending on your computer. If so, get my attention and I'll send a fixed 'game.bas' file, with a changed line to hopefully fix that.
That's most of the faults. Here's the plug for the decent parts :
* You can make and play as many leagues as you want.
* You can swap players, even between leagues.
* The latest played game can be viewed in a graph format, score by score. Game archives can also be graphed, but I'd need to explain a manual thing to do in this case.
* There is a best and fairest count option available.
* All game stats can be saved, also highest scores, and ladders for all rounds. (There is an error in the ladders which can fixed manually, just ask me).
* Every stat can be listed in a 'top 20', 'top 40' or 'top 60' format.
* You can add, change, delete your own commentary, as long as you don't add more than there are available slots.
* Debuts and milestones are highlighted.
* You can see player scores for a match as the game plays (press Spacebar to toggle).
If anyone wants a copy, please let me know your eMail addy, or eMail me to request one.
Just remember, its a bit fiddly to get going for a start, it has a few faults, and it is not by any means a high-quality application.
Mind you, one bloke I sent it to reckoned it was one of the best things he'd ever run across, of course I was chuffed when I heard this!
Cheers,
Kev
kjcourt@lexicon.net
PS : Yes, I will be your helpdesk for a while, until you've got it up and running.
