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- Tennis Elbow
- ************
- by
- **
- Manu TOO
- ********
-
- Copyright Emmanuel Rivoire - 1996
-
- Summary:
- ********
- I. Introduction
- II. The Shareware
- III. Menus & Game
- IV. Keys & Known Problems
- V. Conclusion
-
-
-
- *******************
- * I. Introduction *
- *******************
-
- Tennis Elbow is a tennis game in SVGA with digital sounds and
- graphisms; to configure the game on your PC, launch 'SETUP.EXE'.
- This game requires a 386 or above, a SVGA card with at less 512 ko of
- RAM, 550 ko of conventional memory, and 2500 Ko of XMS free, you must have
- 400 ko more to have sound digits. If you want play the double with 4
- different players, you need 1 more Mo of XMS. The better is to have 4 Mo of
- free XMS.
- You can play with the Joystick (if you have 2, both could be used),
- with the Keyboard or with the Mouse.
-
- The ideal configuration for Tennis Elbow is:
- - 486dx2-80
- - 8 Mo of RAM
- - 2 Mo of Smartdrv
- - Fast SVGA card
- - Sound Blaster card + Wave Table card
- - Numeric joystick, like Gravis Gamepad
-
-
- Windows 3.x and 95:
- *******************
- If you have problems with Tennis Elbow because your machine isn't
- powerfull enough, the better is to start the game in MS-Dos mode:
- .under Windows 3.x, escape it in pressing Alt+F4 in the program manager,
- then go to Tennis Elbow's directory, at last launch Tennis.Exe;
- .under Win95 restart your computer in MS-Dos mode, then go to Tennis Elbow's
- directory, at last launch Tennis.Exe;
-
-
- Tennis Elbow Best Things:
- *************************
- .Animation:
- ---------
- - 60 frames per second on 486dx2-66 vlb
- - 20 sprites per strike animations
- - The crowd turns the head during the point, applauds at the end of the point
- - line judges show the faults and the balls on the lines
-
- .Tournament:
- ----------
- - 95 tournaments
- - Davis Cup
- - 250 players
- - Ranking
- - Palmares of the past year
-
- .Misc:
- ----
- - 5 grounds
- - 2 players with changing colors (skin, hair, T-Shirt, ...)
- - Single, Dirty, Double
- - 5 difficulty levels
-
-
-
- ********************
- * II. Le Shareware *
- ********************
-
- Tennis Elbow exists in 2 versions:
- The complete version:
- ---------------------
- It's the full game version where nothing was removed. To get this
- version, you have to order it (see Order.Frm).
-
- The shareware version:
- ----------------------
- It's a version of the game not complete, free, which allows you to
- value the soft quality. If you often play and/or if you want to have all
- advantages of the complete version, you have to pay the authors.
- You may to have a copy of the version on your hard disk or on
- floppies only to test it. You can't sell this version, you can copy it freely
- for everybody, while you don't modify it.
-
- If you regularly use this version, you have the morale obligation to
- pay the authors to encourage them to continue to do quality products.
-
-
-
- *********************
- * III. Menus & Play *
- *********************
-
- In the menus:
- *************
- You control the little ball who rotates with the device you have
- choose (Joystick/Keyboard/Mouse); bring the ball on a icon and click on the
- button n°1 to activate the icon; when the ball is on a icon, its description
- appear in the bottom box.
-
- - shift + F5: sounds less loud
- - shift + F6: sounds louder
- - shift + F7: music less loud
- - shift + F8: music louder
-
- - Back: allow to back to previous menu; click on the button n°2 or on the
- BackSpace Key to have equivalent of Back.
- - Quit: allow to back to DOS; click on Escape Key to have the same impact.
-
- In the main menu:
- *****************
- - Quick Play: to play quickly a game like you want.
- - World Tour: to participate at the tournament and to be ranked.
- - Greets & Credits: guess!
-
- In the "Quick Play" menu:
- *************************
- - Play: to launch the game with the current options.
- - Characters info: to shape the characters.
- - Play Option: to choose the ground, the set number, the player
- number and if the side changes occur during the match
- or not.
- - Play Style: to choose between do a warm-up and a match, and to
- play by modem.
-
- In the character menu:
- **********************
- - click on the characteristics to change them.
- - click on the personage to change his colors.
- - statistics: allows to see the statistics of the player career.
- - human/CPU: to choose between human control and CPU control.
- - defender/puncher/varied/volleyer: to choose the play style.
- - load/save: to load and save a game or a player.
-
- In "World Tour" menu:
- *********************
- - Play next match: to play the next match, or to choose the next
- tournament.
- - Character info: to observe his player, or start a new game. Click
- on the player name to start it.
- - Tournament info: to see the general ranking, the tournament boards,
- Davis Cup results and his results on the 52 last
- week.
- - Side change / No side change: to change or not of side during the
- match.
-
-
- Available strikes during the game:
- **********************************
- (b1 = button n°1; b2 = button n°2)
- b1 = normal strike
- b2 = secured strike
- b1+b2 = acceleration
- b1 + up = short ball
- b2 + up = slice
- b1 + down = lift
- b2 + down = defended lob
- b1+b2+up = drop shot
- b1+b2+down = fighting lob
-
- Up and down are inverted when you control the player who is on the screen
- top.
-
-
- How we are playing?
- *******************
- .Displacement and strike:
- -----------------------
- When you don't push on a button, swirl the Joystick in all directions
- to run where you want.
- When you push on the button, your player move slowly to the ideal
- position, more you push the Joystick on the left (or the right), more the
- ball will go to the left (or the right).
- -==>> You must maintain the button pushed when you strike the ball <<==-
- When you don't give a special direction, the ball go to the center of the
- opposing ground.
- At the volley, when the ball passes away from your player, push on
- the button so that he'll jump toward the ball.
-
- To do a crossed stroke in the opposite direction of your run, stop
- your run before you strike.
- It means that you have to stop to press the button (or the stick)
- which allows to run, before you press the button (or the buttons) which
- commands the stroke.
-
-
-
- .Service:
- -------
- The service is executed with the same method than the other strikes,
- with the difference than however be the buttons combination, a push-up causes
- a slice and a push-down causes a lift. You can move your player to left or to
- right so you can find a special angle for your service. More the ball
- leaves quickly your racket, more the imprecision is big:
- - at 175 km/h: the imprecision is negligible
- - at 195 km/h: the imprecision is of 15 cm
- - at 215 km/h: the imprecision is of 30 cm
-
- .Score:
- -----
- The player 1's score is written in the up slots of the score
- blackboard, and the player 2's score is written in the down slots. If the
- little ball is in the up slot, then it's the player 1 who serves, else it's
- the player 2.
-
- .Ball Trace:
- -----------
- In the Very Easy, Easy and Medium Difficulties, the ball's impact
- mark on the ground during the service is traced early to help you.
- In the Very Easy and Easy difficulties, the ball's impact mark on the
- ground during the exchange is traced early to help you.
-
-
- During the game:
- ****************
- - Esc: exit to menus.
- - P: pause - strike again P to return to game.
- - F1: swap to the Replay mode;
- in this mode, there are 9 different speeds, you have to push on the keys
- from 1 to 9 to select them:
- 1 - Quick Rewind
- 2 - Rewind
- 3 - Slow Rewind
- 4 - Slowest Rewind
- 5 - Step by Step
- 6 - Very Slow Motion
- 7 - Slow Motion
- 8 - Normal Speed
- 9 - Speed * 2
- Home - Beginning of the Replay
- End - End of the Replay
- In Step by Step mode, '-' of the numerical keyboard do a rewind, and '+'
- do a normal play.
- With the Joystick, a push and a laxity:
- to left: go to previous speed, if the 1 is currently on, goes to the
- the beginning of the replay;
- to right: go to next speed, if th 9 is currently on, goes to the end of
- the replay;
- In Step by Step mode:
- Button 1: advance of 1 image;
- Button 2: move back of 1 image;
- To leave the Replay, push on the 2 buttons at the same time, or on
- Escape.
- - F2: to change of side a the end of the point.
- - F3: to display the service speed in Kmh or in Mph.
- - F5: displays the player 1's statistics.
- - F6: displays the player 2's statistics.
- - F7: displays the player 3's statistics.
- - F8: displays the player 4's statistics.
- - F9: adjust the graphic detail level:
- .low: the crowd applauds
- .medium: the R in the replay appears, the judges are animated
- .high: the crowd turns the head to follow the ball
-
-
- Characteristics' Influence:
- ***************************
- - Fore Hand, Back Hand, Fore Volley, Back Volley and Smash:
- .more the player has a raised percentage, more he strikes strongly
-
- - Service: Success Max Speed
- 0% => b1: 50% 150 Km/h
- b2: 100% 120 Km/h
- b1+b2: 25% 190 Km/h
-
- 25% => b1: 100% 150 Km/h
- b2: 100% 126 Km/h
- b1+b2: 25% 190 Km/h
-
- 50% => b1: 100% 175 Km/h
- b2: 100% 132 Km/h
- b1+b2: 25% 190 Km/h
-
- 75% => b1: 100% 175 Km/h
- b2: 100% 138 Km/h
- b1+b2: 75% 190 Km/h
-
- 100% => b1: 100% 175 Km/h
- b2: 100% 145 Km/h
- b1+b2: 75% 215 Km/h
-
- - More the percentage in "Form" is raised, more:
- .the player'll run quickly
- .the player'll start quickly his run
- .the player'll jump far at the volley
- .the player can do:
- Form: from 0% to 20% => 2 acc
- 21% to 41% => 3 acc
- 42% to 62% => 4 acc
- 63% to 83% => 5 acc
- 84% to 100% => 6 acc
- "acc" represents the accelerations + fighting lobs
-
- - Player style:
- .Defender: can do as many fighting lob than he wants
- and has 1 extra accelaration
- .Puncher: has 2 extra accelerations
- .Varied: has 1 extra acceleration and do medium jumps at the volley
- .Volleyer: do big jumps at the volley
-
- - Skill:
- .for human players:
- all: sees all ball impacts early
- service: sees ball impacts early on the service
- none: doesn't see any ball impacts early
- .for CPU players: rules the overall computer force
-
-
- Statistics screen:
- ******************
- This screen shows the strikes' strength of a player, and the number
- of striked balls, the number of inside balls, and his succes percentage; we
- can see too the aces' number, the double faults' number, and the running
- distance.
- The player ranking appears only in a tournament. The strength
- percentage on the right of "Second Service" indicate in fact the form
- strength of the player.
- If you accede to this screen during a warm-up or a match, the
- statistics displayed concern only the current party; if you accede by the
- player menu, the statistics concern the whole player carrier.
-
-
- Double:
- *******
- During a double, the player n°1 will be with the player n°3, and the
- player n°2 will be with the player n°4.
-
-
- Tournament mode:
- ****************
- .Ranking:
- -------
- The total number of points for the ranking is the sum of 14
- best results in tournaments on the 52 last weeks.
-
- .Training:
- --------
- Before each tournament, appears the Training screen; this screen
- allow you to distribute the training points that you have won during your
- previous matchs; for each available day between 2 tournaments, you can
- redistribute 6 trainnig points.
- For chaque won match, you earn about 10 training points, for each
- lost match, vous earn 25 training points, because defeats teach more than
- victories!...
-
- .Set Numbers of the partie:
- -------------------------
- difficulty: | Easy Hard
- | & Medium &
- | Very Easy Incredible
- -------------+---------------------------------------
- Tournament type: | (Normal Rounds / Final)
- |
- Challenger | 1/1 1/2 1/2
- |
- World Serie | 1/1 1/2 2/2
- |
- Masters and |
- Championship Serie | 1/2 2/3 2/3
- |
- Grand Slam | 2/3 3/3 3/3
-
- .The Masters:
- -----------
- You'll participate in Masters automatically if you are in the 8 world
- first players when this tournament begins. If not, you won't play it.
- Its progress is special. There is 2 group of 4 players, and every
- player does 3 matchs. The 2 group best players will play semifinal, after
- the 2 semifinals winner will meet themselves in final.
-
- .Change the World Tour's players:
- -------------------------------
- Under Dos, or with the Windows' Explorator, go into directory DATA,
- then launch "Mk_plyrs.Exe". If you want to change left/right handed, use tab
- key.
-
-
- *****************************
- * IV. Keys & Known problems *
- *****************************
-
- Default keys:
- *************
- - keyboard 1:
- up: arrow up or '8'
- down: down or '2'
- left: left or '4'
- right: right or '6'
- button 1: 'L_Alt'
- button 2: 'L_Ctrl'
-
- - keyboard 2:
- up: 'I'
- down: 'K'
- left: 'J'
- right: 'L'
- button 1: Tab
- button 2: Caps Lock
-
-
- Known problems:
- ***************
- - With a Flystick Pro from CH Products, you can push on 2 buttons a the same
- time; so push the hat to left to have the good effect;
- - To check your Joystick, launch 'JOY.EXE'; strike a key to exit;
- - The animation risks to be very bad on a PC without a VLB ou PCI card: it's
- possible that que game runs with 2 time less frames or worse (normally, it
- runs at 60 frames per second); the CPU power is secondary, the CPU time
- used is almost the same on a 486dx33 and a 486dx2-66;
- - the modem game doesn't work for the moment; it will be finished soon;
- - In you encounter display problems on your video card, launch UNIVBE.EXE or
- UNIVESA.EXE before launch TENNIS.EXE;
- - If the game seems to be jerky, try to change the detail level by push on
- F9, next verify that the video card frequency in 640*480 is 60 hz;
-
-
-
- *****************
- * V. Conclusion *
- *****************
-
- Credit:
- *******
- - Code, Design, Sound: Manu TOO.
- - Graphisms: Eric Rivoire.
- - Testers: Manu TOO, GoldenFeet, Adzaze.
-
-
- Thanks to:
- **********
- - Zork / The Ultimates: for his help about programmation.
- - Skill / Lego System: for his help about zoom in generated code.
- - Franck Pouilly / Sysop de Nexus One BBS: for his encouragements, and the
- files founded on his BBS.
-
- Hello to:
- *********
- - Pollux / Lego System
- - Gandalf / Infiny
- - Blaise Gassend
- - Fred Pesh / IO Design
- - Scarfman / Real Time
- - GoldenFeet
- - Floppy / AD
- - Puznik / ToadStood
-
- So, it's all!
- Have good time with this game!
- Manu TOO (12th Jan 1997)
- ********
-
-
- To contact the authors:
- ***********************
-
- Emmanuel RIVOIRE
- Eric RIVOIRE
- 10 rue J-J Rousseau
- 26'000 Valence
- FRANCE
-
- or
-
- Emmanuel RIVOIRE
- 37 rue Dérichbourg
- 94'550 Chevilly Larue
- FRANCE
-
- E-Mail: Internet: manutoo@imaginet.fr
- emmanuel.rivoire@p6.f305.n320.z2.fidonet.org
- Fidonet: 2:320/305.6
- SparkNet: 74:320/300.6
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