Program Information:

Introduction:

This is a nifty little program i wrote to help all of us who play the awesome Blizzard games on Battle.net! Basically if you have ever played WarCraft II BNE, StarCraft or StarCraft: Brood War online, you will understand the need for this utility. What it does is calculate all the information for ladder matches. It will tell you what your rating will be after playing someone, whether you win or lose. I've seen programs like this for your computer, but this is annoying because you have to ALT+TAB while playing and by the time your done calculating, usually everyone is gone! So this is the simple alternative you can use while in game. It just asks a few questions and PRESTO! calculates all the information in seconds. Please try it out, I find it very useful and hopefully you will too!

Installation:

Installation is simple:

1. Download and Unzip: bnetcalc.zip
2. Be sure you have at least 2975 Bytes available on your calculator
3. Send the file: bnetcalc.8xg to your calculator
4. This will load the programs BNETCALC and ZALPHA onto your calculator
5. To use the Battle.net Calculator run the program BNETCALC on your calculator, ZALPHA is just a program that allows you to type player's names with Alpha-Lock enabled.

Basic Instructions:

This program is pretty much self explanitory. But if you'd like a walkthrough of the program, follow these instructions:

1. Make sure BNETCALC is unarchived and run it from the Program Menu.
2. Hit enter to begin the program.
3. Select the number of players playing in the WarCraft or StarCraft game. (2 players is the only option currently available, up to 4 or possibly 8 will be available in the future if there is enough interest.)
4. Enter each players name. (Hint: What you enter for the name has NO IMPACT on the program whatsoever other than what to display to ask or give information. You do not have to enter you or your opponent's Battle.net ID exactly, just so long as you can tell who is who. Example: I usually just use the first couple letters of each person's Battle.net ID so I can tell people apart.) The Alpha-Lock is already on, (That's what the ZALPHA program does.) so there is no need to hit the Alpha key to type letters. My Beta testers informed me that this very convenient. When you're done entering each name hit Enter.
5. After that you will come to a screen that asks for each player's stats. First enter the number of ladder games each player has played. Remember, only ladder games, not regular games. And then enter their rating. For ratings, only enter numbers between 500 and 5000 or you will get a error screen and have to enter it again. You can find any player's stats by typing the following in a channel or game:
   
   /stats Battle.net ID Here
   
   Example: For my stats I would type:
   /stats FalcorTheDog
   (and then Enter)
   
   Then you should get something like:

   FalcorTheDog's record:
   Normal games: 10-0-0
   Ladder games: 10-5-1 (rating 1500)
   

   So when the program asks for ladder games, add up the numbers after where is says Ladder games: Example: My number of ladder games for my example would be 16 (10 + 5 + 1). And then when it asks for the rating, it would be the number in parenthesis after it says rating. Example: My rating for my example would be 1500.
6. After you enter each player's stats, you will be at a menu. Select what you want to know depending on who wins. (Example: If you want to know what your rating will be if you win, select your own name, but if you want to see what you will drop to if you lose, select an opponents name.)
7. You will then come to a screen which will tell you what you want to know. The first screen will tell you what the winner's rating will increase to. Hit enter and then you will see what the loser's rating will decrease to.
8. After you finish that you will have the option of going back to figure out what the ratings will be if another person wins, or if you are done you can exit.