|  Golf Royal | | Title: | Golf Royal | | Category: | Game/Sport | | Release Date: | 1989 | | Language: | English | | Size: | 64K | | Machine: | PAL & NTSC | | Code Type: | Basic + Machine code | | Distribution: | Freeware? | | Game ending type: | (n/a) | | |  | | Notes: | The title tune plays almost like "Musette" demo in Music-16. Intro scroll says "FISH & WOLF present...". Are they the authors? Any info about these two or about the game are needed. In order to fix a tiny flaw (see the notes), a fixed version has been added on 2025-12-13. |
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| | Controls | | Joystick in Port 1 |
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| Up / Down | Select club | | Left /Right | Change shot direction |
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| Run/Stop | New start | | Space | View board | | Esc | Hide / reveal the distance to the hole |
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| | Clubs | | Club Bag |
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| Club | Distances |
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| Club | Name | MIN | MAX |
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| 1W | 1 Wood | 166 | 252 | | 2W | 2 Wood | 153 | 240 | | 3W | 3 Wood | 128 | 193 | | I1 | 1 Iron | 138 | 218 | | I2 | 2 Iron | 125 | 197 | | I3 | 3 Iron | 113 | 185 | | I4 | 4 Iron | 98 | 171 | | I5 | 5 Iron | 92 | 154 | | I6 | 6 Iron | 84 | 145 | | I7 | 7 Iron | 78 | 136 | | I8 | 8 Iron | 70 | 118 | | I9 | 9 Iron | 58 | 100 | | PW | Pitching Wedge | 44 | 76 | | PA | Putter | 5 | 50 |
This table was obtained phenomenologically, testing the game.
The game establishes these values mostly based on a power factor, and a coefficient of wind disturbance or slope.
There are 10 notches through which to modulate the shot, the first is invisible in the indicator, and once the fire button is held down, it is impossible to choose it.
The distance values refer to a shot in the total absence of disturbances such as wind and slope.
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| | Notes | The initial scrolling text invites to press Fire in order to leave the intro. Unfortunately, the code that intercepts this action, suffers a certain lag time, which could eventually keep the keystroke action during the titlescreen too, which occurs in shorten the permanence of it. If not, the titlescreen keeps up, and the music gets going.
Press Run/Stop in the titlescreen to restart the music. Nonetheless, it would be better to not abuse of it, given that it is a mere usage of the TRAP command in BASIC, and doing it repetively would easily make it jam up.
Due to a tiny flaw about the scoreboard updating, the overall score's field doesn't clear before showing a new score. This would eventually occur in a false score if a two-digits score would evolve into a one-digit one, and its printing on screen wouldn''t clear the previous additional digit. In order to fix this flaw, a fixed version has been added on 2025-12-13.
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