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TABLE OF CONTENTS ----------------- . GENERAL INFORMATION 1 . GETTING STARTED 3 . PRINTING FOOTBALL SELECTION SHEET 5 . ENTERING PLAYERS SELECTIONS 6 . PRINTING MONDAY MORNING RESULTS 8 . PRINTING FINAL RESULTS 9 . LIST ALL PLAYER'S SELECTIONS 11 . FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FOR NEXT YEAR 12 . SAMPLE WEEKLY SELECTION SHEET A1 . SAMPLE LIST OF PLAYER'S SELECTIONS A2 . SAMPLE MONDAY MORNING REPORT A3 . SAMPLE FINAL REPORT A4 GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- Football Fun (FFUN) was designed expressly for the IBM-PC. A complete football schedule for the entire current season is included in a data file on the FFUN disk. This saves the operator the drudgery of keying in the team names every week when preparing the weekly selection sheets. The program is very easy to operate. It takes 4 keystrokes to produce a weekly selection sheet. The selection sheet contains rules for playing the game. The rules are simple and encourage non-football experts to participate in the game. The object is to pick the most winners of the weekly pro games. No point spreads are used. In the event of ties, each player enters the total number of points they think will be scored in the Monday night game and whoever is closest to the actual points scored is declared the winner. Entering each players selections has been simplified by a data entry screen designed expressly for this purpose. Using the 10 key numeric pad on the keyboard, it is easy to enter 2 players a minute. Groups of selection sheets may also be entered at different times. Each player is stored on disk when operator is satisfied that entry is correct, so that in the event of a power failure, no work is lost accept for the current player being entered on the screen. After all players are entered the operator may produce a list of this weeks selections. This report shows the time and date and can be used to verify that no selections were changed after the games were played. Up to 300 players can be handled by FFUN. A preliminary report must be produced on Monday morning. Operator keys in the 13 numbers of winning teams from Sunday games and FFUN counts number of games each player picked right and prints all players in order of number of games right. Monday morning is also a good time to print the next weeks selection sheet. A final report must be printed on Tuesday. Operator keys in the number of the team which won the Monday night game and the total points scored in the game. FFUN then prints report showing all players in order by 1. Most games won. 2. Smallest point difference. ************************** WARNING : PLEASE NOTE. ************************** You must operate Football Fun in the correct sequence in order not to mess up your player selections. Its basically simple. Follow these steps. 1. Make first selection sheet. 2. Enter players selections for coming weeks games. 3. List player selections before games are played. 4. Enter Sunday game results. 5. Make selection sheet for next week. 6. Enter Monday game results. Repeat steps 2 thru 6. 2 GETTING STARTED --------------- Make a backup copy of Football Fun diskette. Do not try to operate the game from the master disk. Format a disk using your version of DOS. Put formatted disk in drive B: and the FFUN disk in drive A:. Copy all files from master FFUN disk using the command COPY A:*.* B: Put the master FFUN disk away for safe keeping. If any of the files get lost on your working copy disk you may retrieve them from your master F.F. disk. INSTALLING ON HARD DISK. ------------------------ Place F.F. disk in drive A: Enter A:ONHARD This will create a subdirectory ( C:\FFUN ) on drive C: and copy the necessary files to the hard disk. STARTING THE PROGRAM. - FROM DISKETTE. -------------------------------------- Put working copy of FFUN diskette in drive A:. Enter following commands. A: FFUN STARTING THE PROGRAM. - FROM HARD DISK. -------------------------------------- Enter following commands: C:\FFUN FFUN This will cause the main menu for Football Fun to appear on the screen. 3 ====================================================== DATE: 07-11-1985 FOOTBALL FUN GAME MENU ---------------------- 1. PRINT FIRST WEEK SELECTION SHEET. 2. ENTER PLAYER SELECTIONS. (REQUIRED WEEKLY) 3. ENTER SUNDAY GAME RESULTS. (REQUIRED WEEKLY) 4. PRINT NEXT WEEK SHEET. (REQUIRED WEEKLY) 5. ENTER MONDAY GAME RESULTS. (REQUIRED WEEKLY) 7. PRINT LIST OF ALL PLAYER SELECTIONS. 8. ORDER FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FOR NEXT SEASON. 9. TO END PROGRAM. ENTER NUMBER FROM MENU ====================================================== If you select the wrong number from the menu, you can cancel whatever you accidently selected by pressing carriage return [Enter] when the next question is asked. 4 PRINTING THE FOOTBALL SELECTION SHEET. -------------------------------------- You must begin the Football Fun game by producing a selection sheet. Use item 1. on the main menu to print a sheet. For other weeks of the season you should use item 4. on the main menu to print the sheet. When you press item 1. or 4. to print a selection sheet you will then see a list of Sunday dates for the 16 weeks of the pro football season and a number in front of each date which is the week no. of the season. You will then be asked ENTER WEEK NUMBER FOR SELECTION SHEET Enter the number for next weeks games and then press enter. You will then be asked HOW MANY SELECTION SHEETS DO YOU WANT PRINTED Enter the number to be printed and press enter. You will then be told to SET PRINTER TO RECEIVE SELECTION SHEET & PRESS ANY KEY Make sure printer is turned on and loaded with paper and then press any key to begin printing. When it is thru the program will return to main menu and you can end the program with item 9. A sample of the selection sheet is shown on page A1. 5 ENTERING PLAYERS SELECTIONS. ---------------------------- You must enter all players into computer before games are played. Use item 2. on main menu to bring up the player selection data entry screen. Use bottom tear-off stub on football selection sheet for data entry. Enter player's name in box where cursor is blinking and press enter key to get to first football game box. Enter a 1 or 2 as indicated above the box. If you enter anything else, you will hear a beep and cursor will remain in the box until you enter correct number. When you enter correct number the cursor will move to next box automatically. Use 10 key numeric pad on right of keyboard for speeding up the player entries. You can enter numbers as fast as you like without worrying about making mistakes since FFUN is checking each keystroke you type in game boxes. Enter all 14 games in boxes provided. When you get to "TOTAL MONDAY POINTS" box you must enter point total and press enter key. When screen appears you will see some function key settings on bottom of screen. F1 = MAIN MENU F2 = CLEAR SCREEN At anytime you may return to Football Fun main menu by pressing F1. At anytime you may clear screen and start over by pressing F2. After you have completed entering data on the screen 2 more function keys will appear on bottom. F9 = SAVE SCREEN F10 = CHANGE SCREEN and on the line above the function key messages you will see USE THE F KEYS 6 If data on screen has been entered correctly you must use F9 to save it. After data is saved screen will be cleared. If any data is incorrect use F10 to change it. You will see message on line above function key messages change to USE [ENTER] TO SKIP TO BOX YOU WANT TO CHANGE Also blinking cursor is sitting in the player's name box. Move cursor to box to be changed by pressing enter key. When cursor is in box you want to change, just type the correct number. Then press F9 key to save the data. You may enter player's football sheets in different data entry sessions. They do not have to be entered all at the same time. When you are through with a data entry session you may return to main menu by using F1 key. After all players have been entered into computer you should do item 7. PRINT LIST OF ALL PLAYER SELECTIONS. and keep this printout as a data entry verification report. 7 PRINT MONDAY MORNING REPORT. ---------------------------- After Sunday games have been played you must do item 3. on main menu. ENTER SUNDAY GAME RESULTS. This will cause the following messages to appear on you screen. THIS SECTION IS FOR ENTERING SUNDAY GAME RESULTS. ENTER NUMBERS FOR TEAMS THAT WON SUNDAY IN GAMES 1-13. ENTER NUMBERS SEPARATED BY COMMAS. ENTER A ZERO(0) FOR ANY GAME WHICH ENDED IN TIE. EXAMPLE: 1,3,5,8,10,12,13,15,18,20,21,24,25 [enter] Enter these numbers carefully, followed by the enter key, because you will have to retype the whole line again if any of the numbers do not match the team numbers for the respective game. Only teams 1 or 2 can win game 1. Only teams 3 or 4 can win game 2. Only teams 25 or 26 can win game 13. FFUN will count the number of games each player picked correctly and then print the preliminary report after displaying following message : SET PRINTER TO RECEIVE REPORT & THEN PRESS ANY KEY. After printing report you will see following message: PRELIMINARY REPORT IS COMPLETE. DO YOU WANT ANOTHER COPY (Y/N) Enter Y and enter key for another copy or N and enter key to return to main menu. A sample preliminary report is shown on page A3. 8 PRINTING FINAL RESULTS ---------------------- After the Monday night game has been played, you must produce the final report. Use item 5. on the main menu: ENTER MONDAY GAME RESULTS. FFUN will then prompt the operator for the following entry: ENTER MONDAY'S GAME RESULTS. PRINT FINAL REPORT. ENTER MONDAY'S WINNING TEAM NUMBER & TOTAL POINTS SEPARATED BY COMMA. (I.E. 28,37 [enter]) IF MONDAY GAME ENDED IN TIE ENTER ZERO (0) FOR TEAM NUMBER AND TOTAL POINTS. Enter 27 or 28 for winning team number, a comma and the total combined points scored in the game. If the game ended in a tie enter a zero for the winning team number. FFUN will then tell you to: SET PRINTER TO RECEIVE REPORT PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE it will then print the final report and ask you : FINAL REPORT IS COMPLETE. DO YOU WANT ANOTHER COPY (Y/N) ? Enter either Y or N to continue. Entering N will return you to main menu. A sample of final report is shown on page A4. NOTE: The reason you must produce the final report (item 5 on main menu) is because this part of FFUN deletes this weeks players from your disk (hard or floppy) in preparation for entering next weeks players. 9 If you do not produce the final report then next weeks players will be added to this weeks players and you will have a mess. 10 LIST ALL PLAYERS SELECTIONS. ---------------------------- You should print a list of players entered into FFUN after you have keyed in all the players so that you will have proof of each players team selections. This list shows the time and date when it was printed. The list should be printed before any games are played. To print the list you need to press 7 on the main menu. LIST ALL PLAYER'S SELECTIONS. This will cause FFUN to display following messages. PRINT LIST OF PLAYER SELECTIONS. SET PRINTER TO RECEIVE REPORT. PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE. After list is printed FFUN will return to main menu. A sample of this report is shown on page A2. 11 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FOR NEXT YEAR. ------------------------------- The original FFUN disk you received contained the pro football schedule for the current season. The program cannot operate for the following season without the new pro football schedule. Critics Choice will prepare a file each year with the new schedule for the coming season and make it available to the users of Football Fun Game any time after June 1. Item 8 on the main menu is an order form for the new football schedule. It will display on your screen and you may print it out by holding shift key down and pressing PrtSc key. Fill out the order form and mail it in with your check or money order for $12. We will send you a floppy disk with the current pro football schedule. 12 FOOTBALL GAMES FOR WEEK OF SEPT. 8 CIRCLE NUMBER OF TEAM YOU THINK WILL WIN. MOST GAMES CIRCLED CORRECTLY WINS EACH WEEK. IN THE EVENT OF TIES, THE TOTAL POINTS SCORED IN MONDAY NIGHT GAME WILL BE USED AS THE TIEBREAKER. WHOEVER COMES CLOSEST TO THE ACTUAL POINTS SCORED(ABOVE OR BELOW) WILL BE DECLARED THE WINNER. FILL IN AND TEAR OFF BOTTOM SECTION AND TURN IT IN TO GAME COORDINATOR BY FRIDAY NOON. (THUR. FOR WEEKS WITH THUR. GAME) 1. SAN DIEGO AT 2. BUFFALO 3. SEATTLE AT 4. CINCINNATI 5. ST LOUIS AT 6. CLEVELAND 7. DENVER AT 8. L.A. RAMS 9. MIAMI AT 10. HOUSTON 11. INDIANAPOLIS AT 12. PITTSBURGH 13. KANSAS CITY AT 14. NEW ORLEANS 15. N.Y. JETS AT 16. L.A. RAIDERS 17. GREEN BAY AT 18. NEW ENGLAND 19. DETROIT AT 20. ATLANTA 21. TAMPA BAY AT 22. CHICAGO 23. SAN FRANCISCO AT 24. MINNESOTA 25. PHILADELPHIA AT 26. N.Y. GIANTS 27. WASHINGTON AT 28. DALLAS (MON) TOTAL POINTS IN GAME 27-28 ( ) PRELIMINARY REPORT WILL BE PRINTED MONDAY MORNING. FINAL REPORT TUESDAY. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FOOTBALL GAMES FOR SEPT. 8 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 TOTAL POINTS LAST GAME 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 ( ) NAME....................................... (SAMPLE WEEKLY SELECTION SHEET) A1. DATE : 07-15-1985 TIME : 23:21:19 PLAYER'S SELECTIONS. PAGE 1 ------------------- 1 ARNOLD GOODONE 1 4 5 8 9 12 13 15 18 19 22 23 26 27 46 2 ARNOLD DUMBTEST 1 3 5 8 10 12 14 16 17 20 22 24 26 27 55 3 DANNY NAMESAUER 1 4 5 8 10 12 13 15 17 19 22 24 25 28 39 4 TYRONE AGAINEST 1 4 5 7 9 11 13 15 18 20 22 24 26 28 47 5 DANNY WHITE 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 22 24 26 28 33 6 NOREEN DEFEO 2 4 6 8 9 11 13 15 17 19 22 24 26 28 38 7 GERALD KELLY 1 3 5 8 10 12 13 15 17 19 22 24 26 27 34 8 FRANK FIAMETTA 2 4 6 8 10 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 51 9 MIKE TARZIA 2 4 6 8 10 11 14 16 18 20 21 24 26 28 32 10 CAROLE HALL 1 3 5 7 10 12 14 15 17 19 22 24 25 27 49 11 GRACE MARANO 1 3 5 8 10 12 13 15 17 20 22 24 26 28 50 12 JANE WESTLAKE 1 3 5 7 9 11 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 27 34 13 SUE BROCK 2 4 5 7 10 12 13 15 18 20 21 23 26 28 29 14 NANCY MILLER 2 4 5 7 9 11 13 16 18 20 21 23 25 27 33 15 ANNE DUNCAN 2 4 6 8 10 11 14 16 18 20 21 24 26 28 31 16 SANDY THOMAS 2 4 5 7 10 12 13 15 17 20 21 23 25 27 44 17 PAULA PARKANFARKA 1 3 5 7 9 12 14 16 17 19 21 23 25 28 21 18 DORIS JENSEN 2 3 5 8 9 12 13 16 17 20 21 24 25 28 29 19 MARIANNE LOVE 2 4 6 8 9 11 13 15 18 20 22 24 26 28 37 20 RITA LAPERLA 1 3 6 7 10 11 14 16 18 19 21 23 25 27 32 21 JANEEN MAYER 2 4 6 8 10 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 22 22 SUE COLLARD 1 3 5 7 9 12 14 16 18 20 21 23 25 27 41 23 DOTTIE MONOPOLI 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 23 24 KAREN LILLY 2 4 6 7 9 11 13 15 18 20 22 24 26 28 33 25 CRYSTAL HENNER 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 33 26 EILEEN WAYS 1 3 5 7 9 11 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 27 29 27 BECKY BURKE 2 4 6 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 22 24 26 28 39 28 GERRY GROUCH 1 3 5 8 10 12 14 16 17 19 21 24 26 28 41 29 CATHY DUCHENSKY 2 4 6 8 10 11 13 15 17 20 21 24 25 27 26 30 GEORGINA LEE 1 3 5 8 10 12 14 15 18 19 22 23 25 27 36 31 LINDA GROSE 1 3 5 8 10 12 13 16 17 20 21 24 25 27 27 32 PAUL DECAMARA 1 3 5 7 9 11 14 15 18 19 22 23 25 27 44 33 DEBBIE CURRAN 2 4 6 8 10 11 13 15 17 19 22 24 26 28 42 34 JANE KARCHER 2 4 6 8 10 11 13 15 17 19 22 24 26 28 41 35 DANNY DIGEST 1 3 6 8 9 11 14 16 17 19 22 24 25 27 52 36 BEAKER BOY EVEREST 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 25 37 PEEWEE MARTIN 1 3 5 7 10 12 14 16 17 19 22 24 25 27 39 38 NICELY SAMMOA 1 3 5 8 9 12 13 16 18 20 22 24 26 27 37 39 RANDY PLUMBER 1 3 5 7 9 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 29 40 DONNA FLOWERS 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 17 19 21 23 25 27 33 (SAMPLE LIST OF PLAYER'S SELECTIONS) A2. DATE:07-15-1985 PRELIMINARY FOOTBALL RESULTS FOR SUNDAY GAMES PLAYER WON WASHINGTON DALLAS POINTS ------------------------ ----- -------------- -------------- ------ 1.DOTTIE MONOPOLI 10 XXX 23 2.BEAKER BOY EVEREST 10 XXX 25 3.CAROLE HALL 9 XXX 49 4.DANNY WHITE 9 XXX 33 5.PAUL DECAMARA 9 XXX 44 6.PAULA PARKANFARKA 9 XXX 21 7.SUE COLLARD 9 XXX 41 8.TYRONE AGAINEST 8 XXX 47 9.PEEWEE MARTIN 8 XXX 39 10.GERALD KELLY 8 XXX 34 11.DANNY NAMESAUER 8 XXX 39 12.LINDA GROSE 8 XXX 27 13.NICELY SAMMOA 8 XXX 37 14.GEORGINA LEE 8 XXX 36 15.DORIS JENSEN 8 XXX 29 16.ARNOLD GOODONE 8 XXX 46 17.RANDY PLUMBER 8 XXX 29 18.GRACE MARANO 7 XXX 50 19.JANE WESTLAKE 7 XXX 34 20.SUE BROCK 7 XXX 29 21.NANCY MILLER 7 XXX 33 22.SANDY THOMAS 7 XXX 44 23.RITA LAPERLA 7 XXX 32 24.EILEEN WAYS 7 XXX 29 25.GERRY GROUCH 7 XXX 41 26.KAREN LILLY 6 XXX 33 27.BECKY BURKE 6 XXX 39 28.DANNY DIGEST 6 XXX 52 29.JANEEN MAYER 5 XXX 22 30.CATHY DUCHENSKY 5 XXX 26 31.MARIANNE LOVE 5 XXX 37 32.FRANK FIAMETTA 5 XXX 51 33.NOREEN DEFEO 5 XXX 38 34.ARNOLD DUMBTEST 5 XXX 55 35.DEBBIE CURRAN 4 XXX 42 36.JANE KARCHER 4 XXX 41 37.DONNA FLOWERS 4 XXX 33 38.CRYSTAL HENNER 3 XXX 33 39.ANNE DUNCAN 3 XXX 31 40.MIKE TARZIA 3 XXX 32 (SAMPLE MONDAY MORNING REPORT) A3. DATE:07-15-1985 FINAL RESULTS OF FOOTBALL FUN ----------------------------- WINNING TEAM = DALLAS TOTAL POINTS = 41 GAMES POINT PLAYER WON DIF. WASHINGTON DALLAS POINTS ---------------------- ----- ----- --------------- --------------- ------ 1. DANNY WHITE 10 8 XXX 33 2. BEAKER BOY EVEREST 10 16 XXX 25 3. DOTTIE MONOPOLI 10 18 XXX 23 4. PAULA PARKANFARKA 10 20 XXX 21 5. SUE COLLARD 9 0 XXX 41 6. DANNY NAMESAUER 9 2 XXX 39 7. PAUL DECAMARA 9 3 XXX 44 8. TYRONE AGAINEST 9 6 XXX 47 9. CAROLE HALL 9 8 XXX 49 10. DORIS JENSEN 9 12 XXX 29 11. RANDY PLUMBER 9 12 XXX 29 12. GERRY GROUCH 8 0 XXX 41 13. PEEWEE MARTIN 8 2 XXX 39 14. NICELY SAMMOA 8 4 XXX 37 15. GEORGINA LEE 8 5 XXX 36 16. ARNOLD GOODONE 8 5 XXX 46 17. GERALD KELLY 8 7 XXX 34 18. GRACE MARANO 8 9 XXX 50 19. SUE BROCK 8 12 XXX 29 20. LINDA GROSE 8 14 XXX 27 21. BECKY BURKE 7 2 XXX 39 22. SANDY THOMAS 7 3 XXX 44 23. JANE WESTLAKE 7 7 XXX 34 24. NANCY MILLER 7 8 XXX 33 25. KAREN LILLY 7 8 XXX 33 26. RITA LAPERLA 7 9 XXX 32 27. EILEEN WAYS 7 12 XXX 29 28. NOREEN DEFEO 6 3 XXX 38 29. MARIANNE LOVE 6 4 XXX 37 30. DANNY DIGEST 6 11 XXX 52 31. JANE KARCHER 5 0 XXX 41 32. DEBBIE CURRAN 5 1 XXX 42 33. FRANK FIAMETTA 5 10 XXX 51 34. ARNOLD DUMBTEST 5 14 XXX 55 35. CATHY DUCHENSKY 5 15 XXX 26 36. JANEEN MAYER 5 19 XXX 22 37. CRYSTAL HENNER 4 8 XXX 33 38. DONNA FLOWERS 4 8 XXX 33 39. MIKE TARZIA 4 9 XXX 32 40. ANNE DUNCAN 4 10 XXX 31 (SAMPLE FINAL REPORT) A4.