@echo off echo  cls :menu cls echo  ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»ÿ echo  º SEASON FOOTBALL GUIDE  ºÿ echo  º ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ºÿ echo  º 1. Getting Started ºÿ echo  º 2. Starting Prompts ºÿ echo  º 3. Game Prompts ºÿ echo  º 4. The Screen Areas ºÿ echo  º 5. The Play Card ºÿ echo  º 6. Use of F Keys ºÿ echo  º 7. Screen Prompts ºÿ echo  º 8. Statisics ºÿ echo  º 9. Weekly Season Games ºÿ echo  º A. Stat Backup Disc º echo  º Q. Quit Help-Play FBALL º echo  ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼÿ echo Distributed by echo  MICRO DESIGNS echo  8587 Richmond Ave. Manassas, VA. 22110 QU 123456789AQ / ©¯ Select Option if errorlevel 11 goto Quit if errorlevel 10 goto Backup if errorlevel 9 goto Games if errorlevel 8 goto Stat if errorlevel 7 goto Prompt if errorlevel 6 goto Fkeys if errorlevel 5 goto Card if errorlevel 4 goto Screen if errorlevel 3 goto Game if errorlevel 2 goto Start :Intro cls echo 1. SEASON FOOTBALL INSTRUCTIONS echo ÿ echo This EGA game was designed on an IBM compatible computer with 16MHertz speed. echo SPECTRA's POWER BASIC was the primary language. If your computer is slower echo than this, the field action may not be as smooth as possible. If this is so, echo use the F6 Toggle for game speed. This speeds up action by 50 percent. echo To play the game, go to the FB subdirectory and type in FBALL. echo ÿ echo The registered game package contains the following: echo ÿ echo FULL GAME VERS 8.0 echo QUICK GAME (Complete game in 5 seconds) echo SEASON GAME echo 1992 NFL & RBL Schedules echo ALL 52 SUPER BOWL TEAMS echo LEAGUE STATS & STANDINGS echo NOTICE OF GAME CHANGES AND NEW STATS echo ÿ PLAY SELECTION AND FUNCTION KEY CARD echo ÿ pause cls echo  echo If you wish to register, print out the following form. Send the form echo   to the address shown. You need 512K and EGA for this game. echo ÿ echo ORDER FORM FOR SEASON FOOTBALL echo ÿ echo NAME_________________________ echo ADDRESS______________________ echo ______________________ echo ______________________ echo DISK ___ 3.5 ____ 5.25 DS/DH echo COMPUTER SPEED _____ MHRTZ echo ÿ echo Send to: Season Football echo MICRO DESIGNS echo 8587 Richmond Ave echo Manassas, VA. 22110 echo ÿ pause echo - END OF SECTION 1 - goto Menu :Start cls echo 2. THE MAIN GAME MENU echo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ echo There are five options shown on the Main Menu: echo Play a Game (P) echo Restart a Game (R) echo Play Season Games (S) echo Backup Stat Records (B) echo Quit Program (Q) echo ÿ echo For single game play, you can select 2 teams from 28 professional teams. echo When you choose (P) you will then see the RED/BLUE team menu. Select the echo visiting and home teams from this menu. Follow the prompts and you will then echo see the team probability indexes and the odds for that game. echo ÿ echo These numbers are the result of matching the two teams. Review these indexes echo to help determine your game plan. The last line, asks you to select a method echo of play:PLAY or QUICK. The play option takes you to the full game. echo The QUICK option plays a full game in a few seconds, with full set echo of game statistics. This Quick Game is the basis for playing a full season of echo games in a very short period of time. A one week slate of 14 games can be echo played in about 2-3 minutes. The QUICK game actually plays up to five games and echo picks the first game that the 3 games winner played. echo ÿ echo Use (S) for next section or (M) to return to Main Menu QU SM if errorlevel 2 goto Menu :Game cls echo 3. THE GAME PROMPTS echo After leaving the Matching program, the following menu appears: echo ÿ echo COMPUTER: Visitor vs Home (C) echo VISITING Player vs Home Computer (V) echo HOME Player vs Visiting Computer (H) echo Home Player vs Visiting Player (P) echo ÿ echo For the first option, the computer does it all, even calls for penalties, 4th echo down decisions, and timeouts. The next two options turn control over to the echo players for either the visiting or home team. For the last option two players echo play against each other and control one of the teams. Once the game starts, echo you can toggle from computer to player control by using the F1 and F2 keys. echo The F1 key is for the left or visiting team while the F2 key is for the home echo team. For your first few games, you should elect the (C) option and follow echo the game to see how it works. Then try playing against a computer controlled echo team. Finally find an opponent and play the player controlled game. echo ÿ echo Next is the coin toss. Call heads or tails before you press a key to see echo what the flip was. If you are playing by yourself, the home team kicks off echo if it is heads. The receiving team will kick off for the second half. echo ÿ echo - END OF SECTION 3 - echo Use (S) for next section or (M) to return to Main Menu QU SM if errorlevel 2 goto Menu :Screen cls echo 4. THE SCREEN AREAS echo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ echo When the game starts, five areas will appear on the screen. They are: echo ÿ echo SCOREBOARD echo PLAYING FIELD echo MESSAGE BOARD echo DRIVE BOARD echo DRIVE FIELD echo ÿ echo The SCOREBOARD has the usual information on it: teams, time, scores, down echo and distance, field position, timeouts, and who has the ball. There is a ball echo type symbol that appears next to the team name when that team has the ball. echo There is an arrow symbol near the field position indicator to show which side echo of the field the ball is on. The board is current at the time of the snap. echo There is a ball symbol that appears in the center below the clock. When it echo appears, the offensive team is in the hurry up mode of play. The computer echo activates this during the last 2 minutes of each half. Use the F10 key to echo manually choose this method play. echo ÿ pause echo  cls echo The MAIN FIELD below the scoreboard shows all the play action. You will echo want to focus your attention there. This game uses the 7 key players not echo all 11. You will not see much difference in action. Both teams huddle and echo break. The offense lines up strong to the right and the wide out may go in echo motion. The defense will line up according to the defense called. There are echo 10 defenses and 26 offensive plays available plus audibles for both offense echo and defense. You should be able to see everything about the game from the echo action on the field. Referees and yellow flags appear at appropriate times. echo Messages appear in the message board and in the two blocks below the score- echo board. echo ÿ echo To complement the action on the field, the DRIVE FIELD area below the main echo field records all of the plays for the current drive. Different symbols are echo used for runs, passes and penalties. First down "sticks" are shown. After a echo long drive, it is interesting to review what happened by looking at this field. echo For automatic games, if you leave the computer for a few minutes and come back, echo this area will quickly update you on what happpened. echo ÿ pause echo  cls echo In the upper left hand corner is the DRIVE BOARD. This board keeps track of echo the current drive numberwise: time, plays, and yards. This area is also echo used to display the decision options for penalties. echo ÿ echo The last area is the MESSAGE/STAT BOARD in the upper right portion of echo the screen. The stats of the team with the ball are usually on view. But echo this area is also used to display 4th Down options and penalty information. echo During kickoffs, another prompt is displayed for about 3-4 seconds. This echo is a prompt for an ONSIDE KICK. To try the onside kick, use the F4 key. echo This key must be pressed before the kicker places the ball on the field. A echo series of squares appears below the F4 prompt. A beep sounds when the last echo square appears. After this beep, you can no longer elect the onside kick. echo ÿ echo Finally there are 2 more information areas on the screen below the Score Board echo On the left, the DEFENSE CALLED is shown. On the right, the OFFENSE CALLED echo is shown. These are only shown before the play action starts. During player echo controlled play, a message prompt appears here until the player inputs a echo a defense and then an offense. echo -END OF SECTION 4 - echo Use (S) for next section or (M) to return to Main Menu QU SM if errorlevel 2 goto Menu :Card cls echo 5. THE PLAY CARD echo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ echo The defenses are: echo 10-3/4 PASS/RUN 16-SHORT YARDAGE echo 11-4/3 RUN & PASS 17-NICKLE-SHORT PASSES echo 12-5/2 RUN/PASS 18-PREVENT-LONG PASSES echo 13-BLITZ-LEFT 19-BLOCK KICK-NO RUN BACK echo 14-BLITZ-CENTER 20-AUDIBLE-COMPUTER CALLED echo 15-BLITZ-RIGHT echo ÿ echo ÿRun Offense: (Odd Right)-(Even Left) Passes are: echo 20-AUDIBLE 21-TRAP 30-Pass to FB 31-SLANT L echo 22-DRAW 23-R TACKLE 32-SLANT L 33-HOOK echo 24-L TACKLE 25-R SWEEP 34-SQUARE OUT L 35-SQUARE OUT R echo 26-L SWEEP 27-QB DRAW 36-SCREEN L 37-SCREEN R echo 28-L REVERSE 29-DIVE echo 42/52-POST 43/53-HOOK & GO echo 44/54-FLAG L 45/55-FLAG R echo 60-HAIL MARY echo 30,31,36 and 37 are 0-8 yds. Rest of the 30 plays are 10-15 yds echo The 40 series passes are 15-25 yds. The 50 plays are 40+ yds. #60 -60yds echo ÿ pause echo  cls echo In player controlled play, a prompt appears in the left block below the echo Scoreboard with the message: DF 10-20. The defense must enter a number from echo 10 to 20 from either number keypad. When that is done, a second message appears echo in the right block: OF 20-60. The offense must then respond. These prompts echo are color coded to match the team name colors on the main scoreboard. echo The team breaks from the huddle, and the play on the field begins. The called echo plays are shown in the two boxes below the Score Board. echo ÿ echo If computer play is used, the called plays are displayed and there are no echo prompts. In a one player mode, only the prompts required by that player are echo shown. You will find that the computer game plans are quite varied and you echo will have trouble trying to predict what the team will do. In computer play echo a field goal will be attempted within the 30-38 yd line on 4th down. echo The actual distance depends on each team's field goal record from the stats. echo In a 4th down short yardage situation the team may go for it. echo ÿ echo -END OF SECTION 5 - echo Use (S) for next section or (M) to return to Main Menu QU SM if errorlevel 2 goto Menu :Fkeys cls echo 6. THE FUNCTION KEYS echo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ echo The 10 Function (F KEYS) are used for special situations. These keys are: echo ÿ echo F1 Visiting team plays - toggle ON/OFF echo F2 Home team plays - toggle ON/OFF echo F3 Time out or a pause in play echo F4 Onside Kickoff echo F5 Field Goal Attempt/Quick Kick echo F6 Game Speed Toggle echo F7 Sound toggle ON/OFF echo F8 Control Penalties in Automatic Play echo F9 Save game and clear Main Field. echo F10 Hurry up Offense (2 min drill) echo ÿ echo The F1 and F2 keys are useful to change from computer control to play by play echo or vis versa. The computer game plan can not anticipate every possible echo situation. You may wish to take over by using these keys. The change remains echo in effect until the keys are used again. The computer does have a special echo set of plays for the last 2 minutes of each half and also calls certain plays echo for special situations. We will let you discover what these are. echo ÿ pause echo  cls echo The F3 key is used to call a time out. However, you will be prompted echo for time outs during the last 2 minutes of each half. The F3 KEY also echo can be used to stop the game for any reason. In player controlled mode, when echo prompted for a time out, the player calling the time out is prompted for a 0-9 echo time period to let the clock run down. The wait time is 2 seconds per unit. echo ÿ echo The F4, and F5 keys are the special kicking keys. At each kickoff time echo you may elect to try an Onside Kick. In the upper right hand Message Window echo a box will appear with an ONSIDE KICK? prompt. You have about 4 seconds to echo use the F4 key, otherwise the normal kickoff play will be used. The receiving echo team is more likely to recover such a kick. echo ÿ echo The F5 key is the FIELD GOAL/QUICK KICK key. For 4th downs you echo have the option of kicking a field goal. During the last few seconds of each echo half, you may try a field goal before 4th down or before the clock expires. echo After using the F5 key, use 20(Audible) for selecting the offense. You must be echo within the 40 yd line to do this. F5 can also be used to quick kick before 4th echo down. echo ÿ echo The F6 key allows you to change game speed by 50 percent.If you have echo a computer with less than 16MHertz speed, try this toggle to see if this echo improves field action. It is quite smooth on a 16MHertz machine. echo ÿ pause echo  cls echo The F7 key toggles the sound ON/OFF. When the game starts, the sound is on. echo There is not that much sound, but the whistles and beeps may bother some echo other person. If so just hit F7. You can turn it back on the same way. echo ÿ echo The F8 key is used call penalties while in automatic play. You may wish echo to control this part of the game. In automatic mode, the game will usually echo make the right decision. echo ÿ echo F9 is used to save a game for future play. This can be done at any time echo during the game. The game is saved after each quarter when the stats are echo displayed. This key also clears and resets the Main Field. echo ÿ echo The F10 key is used for a Hurry up (2 min) offense. Only the offense can echo use this option. This reduces the huddle from 35 to 16 seconds. A ball symbol echo appears below the clock indicating that this option is in effect. After each echo change of possession, the option is cleared. A prompt message appears below echo the Score Board at the 2 minute warning and at each change of possession echo to remind you to use the F10 if you wish. Obviously, if your team echo is ahead and in possession, you will want to run out the clock. echo -END OF SECTION 6 - echo Use (S) for next section or (M) to return to Main Menu QU SM if errorlevel 2 goto Menu :Prompt cls echo 7. THE SCREEN PROMPTS echo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ echo There are two major prompt menus: one for PENALTIES and one for 4th DOWNS. echo The penalty prompt looks like this: echo ÿ echo DRIVE BOARD MESSAGE BOARD echo ÿ echo (A)ccept PEN ON NAM$ echo (R)efuse ### Yards echo ### Yds to go echo ### Play Yds echo ÿ echo The penalty information appears on the right and the decision menu on the left. echo Hit the A, or R keys for the decision. The penalty message may include echo the message "Pass Interference" and/or "1st down penalty". Depending on what echo happened on the pass play, you may or may not elect to accept the penalty. echo The 1st down message informs you that you get an automatic 1st down with echo that particular penalty. You have all the information you need to decide: echo the penalty yards, the yds to go for 1st down, and the play yards. Penalties echo near the goal line are half the distance situations as appropriate. echo ÿ pause echo  cls echo Pass interference in the end zone will put the ball on the 1 yard line. echo Defensive penalties that occur as the clock expires, will cause the clock to echo put back one second on the clock and allow one more play. echo ÿ echo Occasionally there will be a play + penalty situation. In the penalty decsion echo menu a message will indicate this situation. Except for a scoring play, you echo will always accept this penalty. echo ÿ echo If a penalty occurs during a change of possession play, it may happen before echo the change of possession. In that case the yard markers, the teams and the echo the possession symbols do not change. You then have to decide if you want to echo take the penalty and keep the ball. For example, this could happen after a echo successful field goal.Do you want to take points off the board? If the penalty echo yields a first down you would probably accept. If not, you would refuse. echo You will find that some penalty situations require careful thought, just echo like the real game. echo ÿ pause echo  cls echo The second decision menu occurs on 4th down. The menu looks like this: echo ÿ echo  4th Down echo  (P)unt echo  (C)orner Kick echo  (F)ield Goal echo  (G)o for it  echo ÿ echo These are fairly obvious choices. Remember that the F KEYS allow you to echo punt or attempt a Field Goal without waiting for 4th down. If you are using echo the automatic play mode, you may wish to call the 4th down play by going for echo it when the computer may not elect to do that. The computer has some built in echo logic when it will elect to do so. In computer play You must be ready echo to hit the F1 or F2 keys before 4th down logic takes over. You can hit the echo F1 - F2 keys during 3rd down to gain play control for 4th down. echo ÿ pause echo  cls echo A Corner Kick goes 8/10s of a full kick and will go out of bounds. You echo may elect to use this strategy around the 40 yard line. Within the 35 yard echo line, you will probably try a field goal. The maximum length of a field echo goal is 70 yards. That makes a kick from the 53 yard line possible but highly echo improbable. Each kick has a distance and deflection component. The magnitude echo of these effects depends on the kicker's accuracy. Distance is a factor outside echo the 28 yard line. A field goal can also be blocked. A missed kick will bring echo the ball back to the line of scrimmage or the 20 whichever is greater. echo ÿ echo The field goal model is quite accurate and fun to watch. Two referees also echo get into the act at the end of the play. Close kicks can be determined only by echo the refs. You may disagree with some calls, but the refs are very competent. echo ÿ echo The line behind each goal post indicates the distance the ball must travel to echo clear the goal posts. It may appear good, but if the ball does not travel echo to this line, it is short. One other unique feature of this game is that echo the ball may strike the uprights or middle bar and bounce back or through the echo goal posts. Does not happen often, but it is exciting to see when it does. echo -END OF SECTION 7 - echo Use (S) for next section or (M) to return to Main Menu QU SM if errorlevel 2 goto Menu :Stat cls echo 8. THE GAME STATISTICS echo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ echo A complete set of statistics is recorded during the game. At the end of echo each quarter, these stats are displayed on the screen. A set of stats for echo a game would look like the following: echo ÿ pause pstat echo  cls echo As you can see from this example, the stats are complete and very realistic. echo This game has been under development for almost 5 years and hundreds of games echo have been played. A full season of games has indicated that the statistics echo are within 5 percent of those for a full NFL season. They are also quite echo representative of each team's stats. echo ÿ echo Great effort and development has been put into the math models used in this echo game. Separate programs were developed and run thousands of times for the runs, echo passes, field goals, kicks etc to insure complete accuracy with professional echo football teams. echo ÿ echo Team probablities have been generated since 1984. They are brought up to date echo at least annually. Team indexes are modified after the first eight weeks and echo the end of the season for the playoffs. This provides current team stats for echo the season and for the playoffs. echo -END OF SECTION 8 - echo Use (S) for next section or (M) to return to Main Menu QU SM if errorlevel 2 goto Menu :games cls echo  9. PLAYING THE SEASON GAMES echo ÿ echo From the Main menu select S for season games. You will then be prompted for echo either the RBL or the NFL league and the game week. Next you must select one echo of the following options: echo ÿ echo  Play the Week's Games echo Full/Part of Season echo Compile Stats for Week's Games echo Rank Teams (Division/Conference) echo Season Stats echo Input another week echo Quit - Return to Main Menu echo ÿ echo Most game players will wish to play a week's games and then replay one or more echo games using the full game. After the week's games have been played, return to echo the Main menu and select Play a game. Pick the two teams and play that game. echo To change the stats for game that was already recorded, select (B)Backup Stats echo choice from the main menu. Then select (C)Use/See Game from the second menu. echo From the third menu select (R)Replace and follow the prompts. echo  pause echo  cls echo Once you have played and changed all the week's games that you want, return to echo the season menu and select the correct league and put in the correct week. echo Then select COMPILE. The game stats will be added to the season total. At this echo point run the BACKUP MENU and transfer these stats to your backup disk. echo See next section "A" for how to setup a backup disk. echo ÿÿ echo To print out standings and stats, return to the SEASON OPTION and then select echo either R for Ranking or S for Season Stats. You will find that the echo season stats are nearly as complete as those provided by the NFL. You need to echo have a printer that can print compacted printed pages (132 columns vs the nor- echo mal 80). In order to get all the stats on the page this is necessary. You may echo find that you will want to print the standings each week but the stats only echo every 8 weeks or so. These stats require 4 full pages. If you do not have such echo a printer, you can still save the files until you can use one. echo ÿ echo The final Season Game feature is the Full/Part Season option. Electing this echo option allows you to play an entire season or any part of a season for any echo number of weeks. It takes about 30 minutes to play and compile the entire NFL echo or RBL season. For the NFL input weeks 1, 17 and for the RBL input 1 and 16. echo When the season or weeks have been played, the team standings and stats will echo be printed out. echo -END OF SECTION 9 - echo Use (S) for next section or (M) to return to Main Menu QU SM if errorlevel 2 goto Menu :Backup cls echo  A. BACKUP DISK FOR LEAGUE AND GAME STATS echo ÿ echo To be on the safe side, you should have a backup disk which has all the team echo records on it. If something happens to your playing disk or the files on the echo hard drive, you can copy the latest stats from the backup disk to your playing echo disk. To set up this disk, run the BUSEAS PROGRAM from your system disk with a echo formatted blank disk in the B drive. When you run this program you must iden- echo tify your source and target disk by the drive letters. If you were running it echo from the A drive merely type in BUSEAS enter. This will set up two main echo subdirectories NFL and RBL. These sub directories will have 16 or 17 sub- echo directories, for each week of the season. When you go to the Stats menu from echo the Main menu, the options will store the stats in the correct sub directories. echo When you start a new season, select (B) then (Z) ZERO OUT choice. Select echo the proper league (N)FL or (R)BL. This will set all the season stats to zero. echo ÿ echo You can see the stats for any game for any week by going to menu 3 and then echo selecting the (C)See Game Stat choice. Again follow the prompts carefully. echo  pause goto menu :quit cls echo  echo If you have comments or suggestions, please contact us. I hope you will enjoy echo playing the game as much as I have: John C. LeDoux - Author. . echo ÿ echo MICRO DESIGNS echo 8587 Richmond Av echo Manassas, VA. 22110 echo  pause cls echo  FBALL