PSCORE A Cricket Scoring Application for PSION's EPOC computers © B.G. Fowler 1997-2001 The author does not give, or imply, any warranties, or guarantees, regarding the use of this software and will not be liable for any loss or damage incurred thereby. As a scorer, or a player, how many times have you had to sit there at the end of an innings trying to make the batting and bowling details add up to the running total? Have you ever had to copy out the details from the one scorebook maintained during an innings to the other team's or to a league result sheet, instead of socialising at the bar? What about your club's scruffy looking scorebook, because people forget to bring the pencil and the game was scored in biro, complete with the inevitable crossing out and overwriting? Well, here is the answer. PSCORE is a fully functional cricket scoring application for the PSION 5, 5mx, 7 and Revo computers, which will remove much of the drudgery involved in scoring a cricket match and dispense with the discrepancies that sometimes result when a scorebook and pen have been passed between a number of possibly reluctant members of the batting team. It will also make it possible to have a computer printout of all your club's matches in a standard format and could even be used by umpires who like to keep a check on the overs and score and currently use pen and paper. PSCORE has been designed with club cricketers in mind, but could be used for scoring at a higher level of cricket. It can be used for both limited overs and time matches of either one or two innings, six or eight ball overs and allows wide and no ball extra values to be varied. It will maintain a scoreboard throughout the duration of a match and also produce files of each innings for subsequent printing, containing the full match details as in a standard cricket scorebook and summary scorecards suitable for forwarding to a league's secretary or the press. Whilst unregistered, each innings of a match can only be scored separately, with the user having to exit PSCORE and re-enter it to start a new innings, but following registration the complete match can be scored without the need for this. The Scorebook file PSCORE produces includes each batsmen's time at the wicket, balls faced and boundaries scored, for their full innings and also for 50 and 100 runs. Bowler's averages are calculated and their wide and no ball counts maintained. Fall of wickets, scoring rates for each 50 up to 300 runs and runs & wickets at the end of the first 69 overs are also recorded. The only aspects of a manual scorebook that PSCORE does not reflect, is the batsmen's scoring strokes and a ball by ball analysis of every over. These are not feasible given the size of the screen and fonts available for the printed page. The result of a match is automatically calculated at the end of the last innings. The scorecard PSCORE produces contains the basic batting and bowling details of the innings, fall of wickets and the calculated result, together with a space for the two captains' signatures. Examples of both print files are included in the file, showing the South African innings of the tied World Cup semi-final (these have not been changed to reflect the 2000 Code of the laws of cricket). PSCORE has been designed to make it's use replicate manual scoring as near as possible, by taking as input what a scorer would enter in the ball by ball analysis of a scorebook. The computer will prompt the scorer to provide any additional information it requires and also cross check input to ensure consistency. PSCORE is available as a shareware product. As such, the file P5COREnn may be freely distributed, providing that no amendment is made to any of the files it contains. If you continue to use PSCORE, you must register your copy. Details of how to do this can be found in the accompanying file REGISTER. TXT. Installation The files that are included in P5COREnn for this application are: PSCORE.SIS (Installation file) PSCORE.TXT (This introduction) The files that will be installed on the Psion are: PSCORE.APP (The application) PSCORE.AIF (Interface File) PSCORE.MBM (Bitmap file) MANUAL.TXT (User-guide) PSCORE.HLP (Online help file) PSCORE.TXT (This introduction) REGISTER.TXT (Registration information) SCORBOOK.TXT (Example scorebook file) SCORCARD.TXT (Example scorecard file) To obtain PSCORE, download and extract the file PSCORE.SIS. Double click on this file from within PSIWIN 2.1 or above and it will install PSCORE automatically on your Psion. If you do not have PSIWIN, it is available from: http://www.psion.com/downloads PSCORE can be installed either in memory or on an SSD. The size of P5COREnn is 91K with the installed application files requiring 138K storage. To run the application requires 300K memory plus 8K memory or SSD storage for each innings' print files. Thank-you for your interest in this application. If you have an opportunity, please give it a try - any feedback, suggestions for improvements or future developments, can be made to me, at the address in the registration information.