Trivia
For no readily apparent reason, if you want to hear a duck quack then press 'Q' ! (could be useful for a duck hook, and on rare occasions the game will play the quack for you automatically after a particularly bad shot.)
Contributed by
Servo (51686) on Dec 21, 2001.
A complete version of Links: The Challenge of Golf is available on Classic Games Collection CD featured with the July 2000 issue of PC Gamer Magazine.
When Access made Links, they were really serious this time. According to the back of the manual, here's what it takes to design a Links course:
Play the course. Take over 500 aerial and landscape photos. Videotape the entire course. Obtain topographical and grading drawings. Gather information about prevailing winds and weather. Convert topographic maps into terrain data. Locate greens, tee boxes, bunkers, hazards, etc. Digitize actual vegetation found on the course and place appropriately along with other objects. Use a specially designed course editor to smooth and refine original terrain data. Digitize and install panorama. Install tee markers, ball washers, benches, clubhouse, etc. Playtest and refine for accurate course representation.
This process takes two men months to complete and generates approximately 700,000 bytes of course data--10 times more than other golf games! (...in 1990, anyway -- Editor)
Contributed by
Trixter 
(8865) on Nov 28, 1999.
