Greg Norman's Ultimate Golf
Gremlin Graphics released Greg Norman's Ultimate Golf aka Greg Norman's Shark Attack: The Ultimate Golf Simulator for the Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64 and IBM PC MS-DOS in 1990.
Greg Norman's Ultimate Golf is a full-featured and user-friendly golf game with good controls and clear graphics, but it unfortunately suffers from questionable ball physics. For example, greens are as bouncy as concrete, the ball does not always follow the logic of contoured linework, and the ball ricochets wildly at times.
Greg Norman's Ultimate Golf Features
- 4x Game-types: Practice, Matchplay, Strokeplay, Singles
- 2x 18-hole golf courses: Gremlin and Rac Epsom
- Preferences: Wind, Weather, Ball Effects, Caddy
- Up to 4 players alternating
- 2 players vs. 2 players in Greensome, Foursome, Fourball
- Database of 10 players: 40 more can be added
- Handicap level governed by 5x stats: Experience, Stance, Grip, Swing, Fitness
- Computer-controlled golfers tailored via 5x stats
- Ball position, loft angle, backspin, sidespin
- Swing: Power Meter with Hook and Slice potential
- Hardware mouse cursor and icon-driven interface
- Zoomable bird's-eye course maps
- Joystick, keyboard or mouse control
- Sampled sound effects
- Digitized golfer sprite
- Drop-shadowed ball sprite
- Stylized flora
- Fast redraw of 320x184 drawspace after each stroke
The Atari ST and Amiga versions of Greg Norman's Ultimate Golf were programmed by Paul Blythe, composed by Ben Daglish and drawn and animated by Berni Cregg and Linda Cregg. The IBM PC MS-DOS version was programmed by Lee Garnett and Clive Bramwell. The C64 version was programmed by Simon Blake.
The ST/Amiga version displays in 16-color 320x200 whereas the MS-DOS version displays in 4-color CGA 320x200 or 16-color EGA, VGA or Tandy 320x200. The ST/Amiga color palettes are identical in their EGAification; that is, they don't take much advantage of 512/4096 palette ranges of the ST/Amiga (EGA is 16 from 64).
Amiga Greg Norman's Ultimate Golf was distributed on 1x 3.5" 880kB DD diskette. It was not installable to hard disk drive.
Greg Norman's Ultimate Golf manual: 32 pages.
Greg Norman's Ultimate Golf copy protection: manual course reference (hole no. course no.).
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