
                             OVERVIEW

   Gone Bowlin' is a personal record keeper that will track your
   running average, High AND Low games and series', league info,
   and even includes bowling tips. Along with these, Gone Bowlin'
   keeps up with game scores and series' as they fall into their
   catagories such as 150-174 games, 500-549 series, etc. And it
   keeps the individual scores from each week you bowl! Plus all
   this can easily be printed to virtually any connected printer.
   Gone Bowlin'  was written with the intensions of serving as a
   guide to keep up  with different aspects of your bowling that 
   you normally may not track.  For example, keeping all of your
   season scores in a scrollable window lets you see which games
   that you bowl the best, the first, second, or third. Assuming
   a 3 game league. I also find that it has improved my average!
   I don't like bowling scores that end up in the low scores box.


                       BEGINNING A NEW SEASON

   Select this option from the "Season" pull- down menu when you
   are ready to start a new season. First, you'll be asked for a
   passcode, after you enter a valid code,  you will be taken to
   the Bowler info entry screen.  Fill in all of the information
   that you know, if you do not know all of the info, just leave
   it blank,  you can add or edit these at any time by selecting
   "Edit bowler info" from the Utility menu. To move around, you
   can click on the item that you want to change with the mouse,
   TAB to it, or press ALT along with the highlighted hot key to
   jump to it. When you have finished,  you can select "Save" to
   save it and continue, or "Abort" to cancel it. The new season
   will not be created until you select "Save". If you choose to
   "Abort", you will be returned to the main screen, loosing any
   information you have just typed in.


                     EDITING BOWLER INFORMATION

   Select this option from the "Utility" pull-down menu when you
   need to add to, or change your personal or league information.
   This works the same way as the screen in "Begin a new season"
   simply add or edit the desired information.  You can click on
   the item that you desire to change with the mouse,  TAB to it
   or press ALT along with the highlighted hot key to jump to it.
   When you've finished editing your information, you can select
   either "Save" to save the new  information to disk and return
   to the main screen, or "Abort" to cancel out. Selecting Abort
   will return you to the main screen  without saving changes to
   disk. If changes were made, they will take effect immediately.





                     EDITTING PREVIOUS SCORES 

   If you enter any of your scores incorrectly,  at any time you
   can select this menu option to go back and correct them. When
   you pick this option, you will be presented with a list of all
   the dates that you bowled. Select the incorrect week and Gone
   Bowlin' will allow you to re-enter the date and the scores for
   that week, defaulting to the current date and scores entered. 
   The changes that you make will be saved, and will take effect
   immediately upon completion, if you change your mind and wish
   to abort without saving the changes, simply press the ESC key 
   at any time before you finish to return to the main screen.



                          
                          
                          
                          ALTERING TOTALS

   If you begin a Gone Bowlin' season somewhere in the middle of
   your league, you may not know all of your previous scores.You
   can override the totals by selecting this option. You will be 
   asked for your total number of pins and total number of games,
   these can be obtained from your weekly league print-out sheet.
   Gone Bowlin' calculates these totals into your season totals,
   and these altered totals will be displayed on the main screen.
   Your Season statistics, Season scores, and Graph screens will
   be inaccurate, however, your average, total pins, games, etc.
   will be  up-to-date.  If you can get your previous scores, it
   would be best to enter them, this is just in case you can't.

                                            
                       
                       
                       
                       INPUTTING NEW SCORES

   After you finish bowling, you will want to rush right home to
   enter your scores into Gone Bowlin'. To do this select "Input
   New Scores" from the "Season" pull-down menu. The first thing
   the program asks you for is the date you bowled,  the current
   date is the default, if this is not correct, simply change it
   to the correct date. Next you will be prompted for the number
   of games that you bowled in this session. I added this option
   for those times you get to the center late and miss the first
   game or two, this way your average will remain accurate. Once
   you have entered the number of games that you bowled this day,
   Gone Bowlin' will prompt you for your scores in order of each
   of the games. When done, it will ask you to verify that these
   scores are correct. If they are, select "Yes", if they're not,
   select "No" and it will repeat beginning with the date bowled.


                    DELETING/RENAMING A SEASON

   Beneath the "Utility" pull-down menu, you will find "Delete a
   Season" and "Rename a Season",they do exactly what their name
   implies. You may find that you want to delete a file that you
   may have created to become familiar with the program,  or you
   may have used this to figure some practice sessions. When you
   select this option, a directory listing of all of your season
   files will be displayed for you. Select the one that you want
   to delete or rename by double-clicking on it with your mouse,
   or by hilighting it and pressing ENTER. Gone Bowlin' will not
   allow you to delete or rename the current season.  Next, Gone
   Bowlin' will prompt you to make sure that you want to  delete
   or rename the season, if so, select "Yes", if not, pick "No".
   Deleting a season  will permanently erase it from your drive,
   so, make sure you REALLY do not want it before you delete it!


              PRINTING/EXPORTING YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

   Anything that Gone Bowlin' tracks can be sent to your printer
   or exported to a file by selecting the "Print/Export"  option
   that's under the "Utility" pull-down menu. You can optionally
   print the season summary, which includes Bowler & league info,
   average, highs and lows, along with all your game statistics,
   which includes the number of games as they  fall into each of 
   the catagories such as 150-174 games, 175-199 games,  550-599
   series, 600-649 series etc. or, you can print your individual
   game scores, including the date they were bowled, your weekly
   averages, and individual game averages. The data will be sent
   to the printer that is connected to your default printer port. 
    NOTE- If you are using a dot matrix printer, you should have 
   the "Extended character dipswitch" set to the ON position, if
   its not, some odd charactors may appear where lines oughta be!
   See your printers manual for more instructions on dipswitches.
