Striker

football game for Commodore 64, 2020

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the aim of the game:

the aim of the game is to have a
successful footballing career as a
striker. you start at age eighteen and
retire when you are thirty four, through
the four divisions in england or
divisions in italy, france and west
germany. you want to win as many league
and cup medals as possible and
international cups and goals along the
way.

you will start your career in the fourth
division and work your way up.

to shoot on the match sequence press the
"s" key.

features:

match graphics. four english divisions.
italian, french and west german league.
cups. injuries. league results. signing
on fee rumours. club approaches. spies.
club offers. scorers table. career
history. age. league table. contracts.
agent. fixture list. country
international caps. goals. honours.
previous clubs, goals and appearances.
picked and dropped for match. transfer
requests and listings. manager reports.
injury time. sudden death penalties.
goals for and against. points. home and
away games. weekly wage. retirements.
contract expires. save game. training.
form. fitness. morale. hat tricks.
2-3-points for a win. team editor.

summary of bug fixes:

- winning an fa cup while playing in a
division 4 would not be counted. this
bug has been fixed, so that number of fa
cup triumphs is now correctly
incremented on the honours scorecard.

- after loosing the final game of an fa
cup, the current season would never end.
this would lead to an infinite loop of
broken next games. this bug has been
fixed, so that now the current season
correctly ends after loosing in the
final game of an fa cup.

- after accepting a transfer offer from
a promoted or a relegated team, history
of previous clubs would display a
completely different team. this bug has
been fixed, so when changing clubs, new
team will be correctly placed in the
career history.

- after closing the season only teams
promoted from the current league would
be replaced with teams relegated from a
higher division, however teams from the
bottom of a table of the current league
would not be relegated. this bug has
been fixed, so that now after closing
the season relegation and promotion
logic apply to teams from a lower
division as well.

- a direct consequence of the above
issue was that players team could never
be relegated, assuming that a user works
their career continuously up the
promotion ladder and can never go down.
this bug has been fixed, so that now
players team may not only be promoted to
a higher division, but also relegated to
a lower division (it still does not
apply to foreign leagues, which only
have a single division defined in the
game).

- a bid value offered when signing a new
contract would not match transfer fee
displayed in the history of previous
clubs. this bug has been fixed, so that
recorded transfer fee reflects the
actual value displayed when a new
contract is signed.

- with an excessive number of transfers
the game would freeze. this bug has been
addressed by enforcing a fixed limit of
20 on the total number of contracts that
a user may sign.

- occassionaly a player would get a
chance to shot on goal after the match
was already over, ending the situation
abruptly, and eventually ignoring the
outcome of a shot. this bug has been
fixed, so when a match is over, it is
over - no more chances to score a goal
will be triggered by the engine.

- after reaching more than 99
appearances or scoring more than 99
goals in a single team, history of
previous clubs would not display a
3-digit number correctly. this bug has
been fixed, so that now all numbers
spanning from 100 to 255 display
correctly. playing 255 games roughly
corresponds to spending an entire
football career in just one club, so it
is an acknowledged trade-off of this
limitation.

- load and save game operations now use
current device number instead of being
hard-coded to tape only.

- an attempt to load a missing save game
file will not crash the game.

- an attempt to save game will no longer
crash the game when a save game file
already exists on a target device.

summary of customisations:

- custom nationality data (from the top
16 commodore demo scene countries).

- custom year 2020 league data (four
divisions in england, italy, germany and
poland to choose from, divisions in
italy, germany and spain).

- custom year 2020 player data.

released on 12 december 2020 by dj gruby

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Some useful keyboard shortcuts
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       [PAUSE] - stop/continue game
          [F9] - quick load game state
         [F12] - quick save game state (still stored after leaving the site)
         [F10] - toggle performance meter
         [F11] - toggle fullscreen mode
  [ScrollLock] - quick switch control ports
    [PageDown] - make a screenshot (320x200)