Basic Instructions for using ASDM

Sample Databases
	Included are a sample team and warrior database with a few warriors.  Note that
	these warriors are existing warriors and some of their data has not been entered
	correctly.  I've been using the program for over a year and many changes have been
	made since it's inception and my warriors haven't been updated for the changes.

	It is HIGHLY recommended that new users look at the sample databases before
	working with their own warriors.


Options/Configuring ASDM
	There are menus from many screens to configure Palm Dm to your personal taste.
	None of these menus will affect the information you ENTER about a warrior, but
	some (Skill Charts) affect the way the program treats your warrior.

	The most important options are your default skill chart (Skill Chart from the Title Page)
	and the Skill Listing Order (Design Prefs from the Title Page).  Many will want to
	change these options.  The defaults as of release 1.0 are Alphabetical and Terrablood.

Creating your first warrior.
	1) Start the program, click the DESIGN button (will bring you to the design page)
	2) If you want to save the original overview stats, use the arrows and +/- buttons
	to set the statistics to the values on the original overview.  Click the SET button!
	3) Now, use the arrows and +/- buttons to design your warrior.  You can see the
	physical attributes (Endurance/Hit Points/Carry/Damage) or the predicted Wit
	Statements by clicking the button under the style selection button.
	4) Choose your style with the drop down style button.
	5) Once you've designed your warrior, click the SAVE button.
	6) Enter a name, arena, and ID number (if you don't have the full ID number, just
	enter the arena portion.  Click DONE to save the warrior in the DB.
	7) Note - you can enter the rest of the warrior information now, but see the next step.

	8) Now the warrior is saved in your database.
	9) Return to the Management Page and find your warrior (If you can't find your warrior,
	select the ENTIRE DB from the View Type drop down.
	10) If you have the RSI overview, press the In War Ov (Input Warrior Overview) button
	with your warrior selected.  This will go through 3 separate screens to enter
	information which will help the program track and calculate your warriors bases.
	11) Warrior Information - normally, you'll only enter your warrior's activity statement,
	quickness of foot message, parry substatement, and team.  Once the warrior graduates,
	you'll return to enter favorites and change his arena number.  The three selection boxes
	are to make the warrior inactive, dead, or a tourney warrior.
	12) Overview Attributes.  Select the warrior's physicals and wit statements.
	13) Overview Ratings.  For those few warriors that come back with a rating on
	the overview, select the rating and area.

	Congratulations, you've now entered your first warrior.

Management Page
	Here is where you'll spend the majority of your time.

	The top part of the screen is devoted to organization and sorting of warriors.
	The controls, from left to right are
	- The View Type - How do you want to group your warriors for viewing?
	- The Group Arrows - Switch back and forth between groups.
	- The Sort Order and 'Rev' button for the order to sort the warriors within the group

	The majority of the screen is the warrior list surrounded by buttons.
	Just below the warrior list is a Preview Pane (configurable) which shows a
	preview of your warrior without going to any other screen.

	Most of the buttons require a warrior to be selected before they'll operate.  Here
	is what each button does:

	Global Buttons - Do not require a selected warrior
	'New Turn' - Enter Turn Data for the entire selected group of warriors.  This is a
	shortcut for entering the 'Turn Data' area for each warrior individually.

	'Team' - Enter the Team Section of the program

	'Design' - Enter the Design Section of the program

	Warrior Buttons - Require a selected warrior
	'Tourney' - Toggles the warrior's entry into a tournament.  This only determines whether
	the warrior shows up on the "In Tourn" View.

	'Overview' - View Warrior Overviews.  There are many different overviews, one
	which can be set as the default view whenever you press the Overview button.

	'In War Ov' - When you get a overview from RSI, you will generally enter the
	new data for the warrior so the program can figure your warrior's bases.

	'Edit War' - From here, you can edit almost any characteristic about a warrior.
	Use with care.

	'Skills' - View the Skill situation on a warrior.  You can also recalculate the
	warrior with a new chart.

	'Turn Data' - View, modify, and add Turn Data for the warrior.

	'Future' - From here, you can see what your warrior might look like after
	trains or learns.  Does not do anything to the warrior in the DB, but let's
	you look at the warrior after hypothetical training.

	'Delete War' - Deletes the warrior entirely from the DB.  All Training
	Information will be gone forever.

What if I've got a very experienced warrior and I don't have turn data available or
I don't want to enter 300 turns of information?
	There is are 2 sample warriors in my DB like this.  The Beast and The Frog Prince.
	Under the Edit War sub-menu, there is an ARCHIVE section.  You can enter the
	trains, skill learns, physical increases, records, FE, and history.

	Viola, instant experienced warrior.

Entering Turn Data
	For a normal turn, follow these steps to enter a turn of data
	1) Go to the Turn Data page and press the 'Ad' button.  If you're entering data for
	a whole team at once, you might have pressed the 'New Turn' button from the management
	screen.
	2) You should now be on the Turn Data page.
	3) Enter the Turn Number (This is very important)
	4) Check the Box for the Result (Win/Loss/Kill/Death)  Ignord the lined areas.
	Normal turns do not use this.
	5) Make sure the class is selected 'Norm'
	6) If the warrior gained PP's, select CC or DM appropriately.
	7) If this is the warrior's FINAL basic fight, click the ADM box.
	8) Select the style of your opponent

	9) It defaults to skill learning, if this is not correct, click the Skill Trn button
	(the screen will change and the box will say Stat Trn)

	Skills
	10) Click the + or - buttons until you've added the correct number of skills.
	You can also type the values in in the underlined area, whichever is easier.
	Click any boxes where you gained a rating.
	If you received the 'Cannot Learn Any More Skills' message, click the Final Skill box.
	11) If you learned NO skills, you're finished

	Stats
	12) Click the Stat you attempted to train.  You MUST click a stat in this release of
	the program.  If you Failed the Train, click the FAIL box as well.
	13) Click any improvements to your physicals
	14) If you gained a rating, check the appropriate box.

If you make a mistake, you can edit the data by selecting the turn from the Turn
Data History and pressing the 'Ed' button

You can also view a warrior at some point in his career, delete turn data, or insert turn data.

Entering Tournament Data
	The following is the recommended way to enter tournament data (There are other
	ways which will be described in the FULL manual)

	Enter the Basic Tournament Results
	1) Enter the number of wins, losses, kills by typing a number in the lined
	areas.  Check if the warrior died or not.
	2) Select the class the warrior fought in.
	3) Select whether the warrior TV'd or TC'd
	4) (New - sample warriors don't do this correctly)  Select a dummy train,
	either skills (WITH NO SKILLS LEARNED) or any stat, checking the FAILED box.
	This will determine how the tournament is processed on the Training History
	Overview.

	Enter Each Turn of the Tournament individually.
	Follow the steps for Turn Data except click the class the warrior fought in.