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W O R L D C U P C R I C K E T v2.62
CONTENTS
1) Intoduction
2) Features
3) Copyright
4) Disclaimer
5) Distribution
6) What files should be in this distribution
7) Game history - including what's new in this version
8) Compatibility
9) Installing and running the game
10) The Game - "World Cup Cricket"
i) The Main Menu
- Team Selection
- League
- Fixtures
- Tournament Statistics
ii) Playing World Cup Cricket
iii) If you elect to bat or are put into bat
iv) If you elect to field or are put into field
v) Strategy
vi) The Tournaments
vii) Other bits and pieces
11) Quiting the game
12) Changing the speed
13) Changing the difficultly
14) Troubleshooting / known bugs
15) How to add new teams
16) Information on changing player data
17) Information for registered users
18) Sticky Wicket - another cricket game by Mark Carter
19) The Sticky Wicket & World Cup Cricket Website and Yahoo! Group
20) Author contact details
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1) Intoduction
--------------
World Cup Cricket is a freeware DOS cricket game for the PC.
World Cup Cricket is based on international one-day matches played between
the nine test playing countries. You choose a team and guide them through a
series of international tournaments each with their own unique format. After
three tournaments you play in the ultimate competition - the World Cup (that
is assuming you qualify, of course). The format of the actual matches is
similar to that of its predecessor Sticky Wicket but with some additional
features such as umpire images and advanced strategy within the match
situation.
World Cup Cricket is the second of two cricket games I have written for the
PC. The other is called Sticky Wicket and is based on english county
one-day matches.
2) Features
-----------
* Database of 225 players, 9 teams each with career statistics and batting
and bowling abilities
* User can take charge of ANY one of the 9 teams
* Seasonal and career averages for your team
* World Cup averages for all teams involved
* Qualification period of 3 years where England plays in 3 out of 5
different events. The "World Cup" is played the following year.
(For more info on the tournaments, see 7(vi) "The Tournaments")
* Unlimited number of seasons
* Edited highlights of the game including action shots, LBWs, run outs etc
* Match interactivity - when to run, who to bowl, batting order, field
placings etc
* Your strategy can be changed throughout the match
* Comments on the shots played and dismissals
* Umpire decisions in response to appeals
* Squad selection - pick a squad of 16 from 25 to take to each tournament
* Team selection - choose 11 from 16 before each match
* 5 different built-in field settings
* Save / restore position after each tournament
* Career page showing your teams records and comparisons with other teams
* Choice of five levels of difficulty
2) Copyright
------------
World Cup Cricket is written and copyright by Mark Carter. No parts of this
program may be altered by any means (this includes editing, reprogramming,
crunching, resourceing etc.), except archiving.
3) Disclaimer
-------------
The author is in no way liable for any changes made to any part of the
program, or consequences thereof as he is in no way liable for damages or
loss of data directly or indirectly caused by this software.
4) Distribution
---------------
Profits may not be made by distributing this piece of software - only a
nominal fee may be charged to cover postage, packing, materials etc. All
files may be copied so long as they are copied in their entirety and are not
seperated from each other. The files may be compressed into a .ZIP format (I
recommend naming the zip file wcc262.zip) in which case the directory
structure should be preserved.
6) What files should be in this distribution
--------------------------------------------
You should find the following files:
[main directory]
wcc .bat - Run this to start the game!
wcc .dat - Main data file
wcc .txt - Main documentation
wccentry.exe - Part of the actual game engine
wccmatch.dat - Another data file
wccmenu .bin - Part of the actual game engine
wccteams.dat - Data file containing the 9 team names
wcctourn.bin - Part of the actual game engine
["src\" subdirectory] - Source code
wccentry.bas
wccmenu .bas
wcctourn.bas
wcctourn.mak
wccutil .bas
["wccteams\" subdirectory] - Team data files
australi.dat
england .dat
india .dat
newzeala.dat
pakistan.dat
southafr.dat
srilanka.dat
westindi.dat
zimbabwe.dat
When you play the game for the first time, a subdirectory called "WCCSAVES\"
is created and files called "USER.SAV", "USERTEAM.DAT", "WCC.POS", "WCC.SAV"
are stored there. You should ensure that at least 7K of disk space is
available for these files to be created.
7) Game history - including what's new in this version
------------------------------------------------------
May 1992 - Version 2.00
* First release into the shareware market
June 1992 - Version 2.10
* Bug-Fix Update On Version 2.00
June 1992 - Version 2.15
* Minor Bug-Fix Update
* '8' key on key-pad now works!
* Games are now more realistic
July 1992 - Version 2.16
* Improved Programing with minor bug fixes
* Slightly better selection methods
February 1993 - Version 2.50
* Level settings now incorporated
* Improved strategy
* At any stage during a match the user can alter how much risk their
team plays with
* Running improved
* In a run out the closest player to the stumps is the one given out
* Batsmen can now run four runs
* Batsmen can run before the ball stops
* Completed runs during run outs are included
* Team selection slightly improved
* On scorecard, batsmen appear in the order they batted
* The fielders role is more realistic
March 1993 - Version 2.51
* Minor Bug Fix Update on version 2.50
April 1995 - Version 2.52
* Updated documentation and registration form for overseas users and
for email addresses
25th September 1996 - Version 2.60
* New "key file" registration system. See below for more details
* Improved method for getting game to run at correct speed
* Can now quit WCC while playing a game
* Level setting can now be altered from the Main Menu
* New option to toggle sound on/off
* Tidied up data file storage system
* Vaslty improved on-disk documentation - now over twice the size!
* New facility to print registration form within the game (shareware
version only)
23rd August 2001 - Version 2.61
* Game is now freeware and so a default key file is included in
the distribution to unlock all features
* Updated documentation with new contact details and removed
references to registration etc
24th November 2002 - Version 2.62
* Added the source code! (Quick Basic 4.5 compatible)
* Removed chunks of redundant code from the program concerning
shareware and key file logic
* Removed the key file from the distribution as it is no longer used
* Completely reorganised wcc.txt into a more logical format.
Ammended contact details, website address and added a link to the
new Yahoo! discussion group. Also added sections on troubleshooting,
compatibility and installation
* Fixed a bug which was caused by Quick Basic's "Shell" command. Now no
longer uses the "Shell" command. This had been causing a FILE NOT FOUND
error
* Improved error handling
8) Compatibility
----------------
This game should work on any IBM compatible PC with EGA or better
graphics card and at least 512K of RAM. This should be ok for any PC
purchased after 1990!
The game runs fine under the later versions of DOS and also runs fine
from Windows 3.x, 95, 2000 and XP. However, I have heard of users having
problems using Windows 98 and ME.
9) Installing and running the game
----------------------------------
Chances are you will have just unzipped a file called wcc262.zip and are
ready to run the game straight away.
If not, then you will need something like WinZip (if running from Windows)
or PKUnzip (if running from DOS). Please refer to the relevant documentation
to find out how to extract the files from the zip file and remember to
preserve the directory structure when extracting.
It is good to check that when you unzipped the files they appear as
described in the "What files should be in this distribution" section in this
document. If not, then you will need to fix this!
To start the game from DOS, change to the directory where wcc.bat is stored
and then type "wcc".
To start the game from Windows, just double-click on the wcc.bat icon.
You should be greeted by the title page followed by a request to enter your
name.
If you wish to continue from where you left off then do not type
anything, just press "Enter". This will take you straight to the main
menu where everything should be exactly as you left it.
If you wish to start a new career, then enter your name, and then a
level setting. Then you will be presented with a list of 9 teams and
you can choose which one to take charge of. Then you will be taken to
the Main Menu.
10) The Game - "World Cup Cricket"
----------------------------------
Soon after the title sequence and entering your name, you are presented
with the main menu...
i) The Main Menu
By pressing any number from 1-7 you will be able to access the option
You want:
1 - Begin Tournament
This takes you into your next tournament.
2 - Squad Selection
First you will be presented with a list of 8 specialist batsmen from
which you may select 6 to play in the tournament that year. You will
see that a default 6 players has already been selected and if you wish
to make no change just press 'C' to continue. There are also default
selections for the following 3 squad selection teams. The highlighted
player is shown in a red bar, selected players are shown in white
foreground and deselected players are shown in yellow foreground. If you
wish to select or deselect a player, you must first use the cursor keys
to move the red bar to that player and then press 'S' or 'D'. Once you
have made your selection, press 'C' to confirm.
Note: If after pressing 'C', nothing happens, you must check that you
have selected the right number of players as shown on the screen.
The following screens behave in the same manner.
By Pressing 'B' at any time during squad selection you can toggle
between showing the players in order of batting or bowling averages. You
cannot order the wicket keepers by bowling averages because none of them
can bowl.
If you only wish to view your squad then press 'C' to cycle through the
4 different categories of players.
3 - View Tournaments
The tournament highlighted in white is the tournament that you will be
playing in.
If you are in year 4 you will be presented with all the fixtures in the
World Cup.
4 - International Table
You are shown in white. Teams are ordered by percentage points where a
win is worth 2 points and a draw 1 point. Where this is equal the teams
are ordered by the value of 'number of losses taken away from the number
of wins' with the higher value being put higher in the table.
If you chose to try to qualify you will find yourself bottom of the
table and you will have to win your semi-final match in the Currey Cup
if you are to lift yourself off the bottom of the table and play in the
World Cup.
5 - Averages
These are updated after every match.
6 - Career Page
You will find that where your personal records are shown, there are some
statistics already there even before you a game. These are the records
from the matches played in the tournaments after the last World Cup and
have been put there to give you an idea of the scores you should be
expecting to achieve. All your records are set to zero when you begin.
S - Toggle Sound On/Off
Q - Quit
Your position is automatically saved as long as you have played at least
one tournament.
Once you have entered the tournament you will be presented with a map of
the country in which you will be playing, tournament records and a brief
description of the structure of the tournament. Then you will meet another
menu.
1 - Begin next match. (Self explanatory)
2 - Select team
A default will already be selected but by using the cursor keys along
with the other keys as shown on the screen you can change your team. The
different colours signify what type of role the player will play in the
match. Selecting a player blue will enable him to bowl - you may only
bowl a maximum of 6 players and you can only select players as bowlers
if they have a bowling skill of more than zero. 'Other' players can
neither bowl nor take wicket - they tend to be specialist batsmen.
The four qualities - batting, bowling, fitness and form (on a scale of
zero to twenty) act as a guide to which players should be selected.
Fitness and form are described in more detail below.
Fitness - This declines rapidly for bowlers, less so for batsmen. To
counter this you should make regular alterations to the side enabling
the players to recouperate. Over-use of players makes them become stale
and will affect their performance ie a player of 1 (one) fitness is
useless.
Form - This changes from match to match and is an indication of the
players current form. High values will mean he is very confident and has
been successful with the bat or ball. A loss in form may result in poor
performances.
The rest of the menu is fairly self-explanatory and varies depending on
which tournament your are in.
ii) Playing World Cup Cricket
Pressing '1' in the main menu will take you to the next match.
The teams are displayed and the opposition and your teams strengths and
weaknesses are compared. If your fitness is significantly low the
likelyhood of catches being dropped, fielder mistakes and a general
lethargic performance overall are increased. Alterations should be made
when you next return to the main menu. A coin is tossed and the opposition
will inform you of its intention to bat or field if it wins, press space
to continue. If you win use 'b' to bat or 'f' to field.
iii) If you elect or are put into bat
Select your two openers. They should be chosen to see off the new ball to
enable the middle order to slog. Openers are specialist batsmen and by
looking at player qualities when choosing the team you can see which
normally do the job. Enter the batsman number and press 'return'.
Edited Highlights will be displayed.... Make sure your finger is poised
over The 'r' button. If the ball doesn't cross the boundary as a 4 or 6 it
will be fielded by the opposition. By pressing 'r' will enable your batsmen
to run, you must decide if it is safe to do so. Failure to keep the score-
board ticking over by taking quick runs will reduce the overall team
score. However, run outs can be equally disasterous. Even if you are
outside the crease there is still a possibility that the opposition fielder
will miss the stumps. If a decision is close the umpire will be called
upon to adjudicate. Unfortunately this is open to human error and may be
dubious but that's cricket! Along the bottom of the field brief comments
on the action is displayed.
iv) If you elect to field or are put into field
Utilising your bowlers to the optinum performance is an acquired skill.
With practise you will discover which can conserve runs and which will take
wickets. When in the scorecard (ie at fall of Wicket or at the end of each
over) by pressing 'f' you will be able to select from three fields -
orthodox, defensive, attacking, highly attacking and unorthodox each with
their own merits. The first 10 overs with the new ball and the last are
the most critical. Bowlers are restricted to 10 overs none of which can be
bowled consecutively. If you are unable to select a particular bowler
or the computer automatically selects someone else this is to enable the
above rules for bowling to apply. This can be remedied by trying another
bowler who hasn't completed his spell.
After your match has finished all the league results that week are shown.
(including high scores and best bowling figures).
v) Strategy
Once you have got to grips with the game you may find that you want to have
a greater influence on how you play each match. You can do this by using
the strategy option which enables you to change the risk with which your
team plays. For example, if you find that you need to increase your run
rate try increasing the risk in the strategy page.
The strategy option is available by pressing 'S' when:
a) A bowler is running up to the wicket
b) You are selecting a new batsman to go into bat
c) You are bowling and an over has just been completed.
vi) The Tournaments
The CARIBBEAN LEAGUE - Four guest nations plus the West Indies battle it
out on a round robbin basis in the heat of the Caribbean to see who will
top the league.
The CURREY CUP - Hosts South Africa and Zimbabwae challenge two other
teams in a knockout event over 45 overs.
The FOUNDERS CUP - A series of three matches which pits England against a
guest nation over 50 overs. The winner being the team which wins the most
games. It is played in England.
The PACIFIC CUP - A tough tournament which pits a guest nation against
hosts Australia and New Zealand in a league over 40 overs. The top two
then play off in the final to decide the winners.
The SHAH CUP - This event features two mini leagues of three teams. Sri
Lanka, Pakistan and India have home advantage against three guest nations.
The top two teams of each league contest the semi finals and then the
final.
The WORLD CUP - This is the BIG tournament that all the teams have been
preparing for. It begins with a league stage involving all 8 qualifying
teams who play each other in a round robin format. The top 4 in the
final league table then go through to the semi-finals of the knockout
stage.
vii) Other bits and pieces
There is a round-up of all the tournaments at the end of every year. Each
team plays three international one-day tournaments and the eight out of
the nine with the best % wins qualify for the "World Cup". If you fail to
qualify you are sacked!
Your career averages and averages since the last World Cup are available
after each tournament.
11) Quiting the game
-------------------
You can exit the game at any time by pressing the function key F9.
12) Changing the speed
----------------------
The speed at which the game runs should be the same for both fast and slow
PC's. However, if you wish to make the game faster or slower, you could try
typing the following (instead of just "wcc") when you next run the game:
wcc X (Where X is a whole number from 1 to 30000)
The LOWER the number the FASTER the game will run.
As a rough guide, a 286-12 machine should run perfectly using
wcc 50 to begin the game.
and a 486DX2-66 should run about right using
wcc 500 to begin the game.
You may have to play around with finding the best value for you.
13) Changing the difficultly
----------------------------
There are three ways to change the level of difficulty.
Firstly, change the level setting - you probably guessed this one!
Secondly, by changing which team you take charge of, you are affecting how
easy or difficult winning will be. For example, if you choose Zimbabwe, you
will have a tough job on your hands!
Thirdly, by changing the speed of the game (see above) running between
wickets will be more or less difficult. Increasing the speed will probably
result in more of your batsmen being run out, since judging when to go for
that tight single is that much more difficult. Try running World Cup
Cricket by typing "WCC 1" (at the DOS prompt) on a Pentium PC!
14) Troubleshooting / known bugs
--------------------------------
a) Common problem
Almost all the problems known about this game stem from the fact that it is not
possible to run DOS programs from Windows DOS when the executable lies in a
folder whose path is more than 64 characters long. If you do happen to run the
game from such a folder you will be presented with a message explaining this
situation and how to rectify it! No prises for guessing that the solution is based
around re-installing the game to a folder with a short path!
b) "Unable to find file: wcc.dat"
Check that the file does indeed exist in the same folder as wcc.bat. If it does
not then it sounds like you have an incomplete installation. (See section 6 of
this file for which files should be in this distribution.
The only other explanation could be if the working directory is set to something
other than the folder which contains wcc.bat. However, if you are running the
wcc.bat file from Windows (i.e. by double clicking on the wcc.bat icon) then this
should always be correct.
c) "Unable to find file: wccteams\australi.dat" (or similar)
Usually, this occurs when the wccXXX.zip file has been unzipped without
preserving the folder structure. Check that the main wcc folder has a subfolder
called "wccteams" and that it contains a file for each team.
d) Something else!
Post your problem on the Yahoo! Group - see end of this document!
15) How to add new teams
------------------------
The format of this game is such that it is not possible to add any more
teams to the nine already defined. However, there is nothing to stop you
editing any (or all) of the existing team names. This can be done by using a
text editor on the wccteams.dat file.
16) Information on changing player data
---------------------------------------
If you decide that you want to change some of the names you can easily
change the data files in the "wccteams\" subdirectory, using a text editor.
However, if you do this you must make sure that you have backed up this
program in case anything goes wrong.
17) Information for registered users
------------------------------------
This game is no longer shareware so there is no need to register.
Thank you very much to those (300+!) of you who registered for one or both
of my cricket games. Your support is much appreciated.
18) Sticky Wicket - another cricket game by Mark Carter
-------------------------------------------------------
Sticky Wicket is based on one-day matches in both league and cup
competitions played between english county teams. This is one of the very
few cricket games to combine strategy and statistics with interactive match
action. Matches are shown through a birds-eye view of the field where ball
movement, fielding and batsmen running can be followed. By careful team
selections, choosing field placings, rotating bowlers, changing batting
order and deciding when batsmen run, you aim to win the league and cup
trophies.
These are the features:
* Database of 288 players, 18 teams each with career statistics and batting
and bowling abilities
* 8 teams take part in any season
* Possible to add extra teams (up to 36 in total) to the 18 already present
* Seasonal and career averages
* Unlimited number of seasons
* Each season consists of the Sunday League and Sticky Cup competitions
* Sunday League consists of seven 40-over matches including league table,
fixture list and results service each week
* 40 over Sticky Cup competition involving all 8 teams
* Edited highlights of the game including action shots, LBWs, run outs etc
* Match interactivity - when to run, who to bowl, batting order, field
placings etc
* Umpire decisions in response to appeals
* Team selection - choose 11 from 16 before each match
* 5 different built-in field settings
* Save / restore facility - up to 8 different save positions
* Career page showing your teams records and comparisons with other teams
* 2-player matches between any 2 teams of your choice
19) The Sticky Wicket & World Cup Cricket Website and Yahoo! Group
------------------------------------------------------------------
The Sticky Wicket & World Cup Cricket website contains all the information
you need to know about the games. You can download the latest versions of
the games although I am not intending to write any updates.
Point your web browser to:
https://cricket.marcardar.com
I have also set up a Yahoo! Groups group for discussing both games:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stickywicket
20) Author contact details
--------------------------
Please send comments & suggestions to:
mailto:[email protected]
https://cricket.marcardar.com
...but keep in mind that this game is no longer being developed...
Enjoy! 24 November 2002