RCP Software
Located in Shingle Springs, California, RCP Software is an innovative company
formed in 2006 primarily to provide inexpensive yet powerful software for bowling
league secretaries and bowling centers. More recent software will provide
powerful tools for bowling associations, tournament directors/managers,
tournament club managers, match club managers, league secretaries, and
others managing a wide variety of bowling events.
Products and special order customized applications have been expanded to
cover software for government operations (particularly the courts) and certain
products for lawyers handling California appointed appeals.
Products supplied by RCP Software will always cost less and be far better than
anything available elsewhere. No software released for commercial distribution
has ever been found to have a single bug (code execution error) in it. The
emphasis is on software that works extremely well, is easy to learn, and is easy
to use. Customers are generally able to work reasonably well with our software
after only minutes of education. Instructions are well written and have been the
subject of many compliments.
Our first commercial product was SweeperScore, aimed initially at scoring
bowling league sweepers. It was first used in a Reno-bound league in the
Sacramento, California area. It has been received very well across the country
with a number of Reno, Las Vegas, and Laughlin-bound leagues using it to
quickly determine results, divide up the sweeper money in a jiffy (see
DivvyItUp!), and get headed out toward those hungry slot machines and
Blackjack tables. Tasks that used to take hours now take just seconds. It is now
often used to score special events during the middle of league seasons, such as
Valentines Day Mixed Doubles, St. Patrick's Day doubles, and Halloween Witch
& Wizard Doubles.
Bowling officials have found the early SweeperScore and SuperSingles
applications to be quite flexible and usable for scoring various events besides
just league sweepers. As league and other types of bowling events managers
have discovered all across the country, it is now possible to have software that
can run on an ordinary Windows laptop computer, manage events with large
numbers of bowlers, do all the data management quickly, and do all of this at a
very reasonable cost. A number of leagues have now switched from paying the
bowling center hosting the sweeper to score their special events to doing it
themselves at a fraction of the cost
If you know of other bowling organizations who could use such software, please
direct them to this Web site.
During 2010, as a further benefit to all those beleaguered bowling officials who
have been taken advantage of in the past by computer geeks just out to make a
buck off bowlers (I know of some suckers who spent $20,000 on such software
and are too embarrassed to admit they wasted their money), RCP Software will
continue development of software to manage bowling data, basing the new
software on the expanded capabilities of Microsoft Excel 2007. This will enable
the management of truly huge amounts of data but still at a reasonable cost. The
new 2010 era software will require a fairly recent computer with preferably 2GB
or more of RAM and a fairly fast processor. The first of the 2010 versions of
primary scoring applications is SuperSingles-n-Doubles, newly available as of
late April 2010. It will handle 4,000 singles or 8,000 doubles bowlers bowling up
to 114 games, plus special events such as Mulligan events, and all for $99.95
plus $8.25 sales tax for California residents. It will work compatibly with
BowlerTracker 10, the first of the compatible 2010 modular interlocking utility
applications. Together, these two new applications provide an excellent example
of modular interlocking software, something to which politicians and government
bureaucrats should pay attention. But, due to lobbying and kickbacks, they
probably won't and will continue to waste taxpayer money by the bucketful, as
described more at the govsoft page.
The previously created bowling data management software will continue to be
available for all those who have not yet transitioned to the latest era of
computers and software engines such as Microsoft Office 2007. The old software
will also run inside Excel 2007 in Compatibility Mode if you happen to purchase a
new computer but don't need the expanded capabilities of the newest software.
RCP Software can provide customized software for scoring sweepers, special
events, doubles tournaments (including a number of interesting variations on the
standard men's or women's doubles such as mixed doubles, generic doubles, hi-
low doubles, Mulligan doubles), large singles tournaments, marathon doubles or
singles tournaments spread over multiple dates, events run simultaneously in
multiple counties or multiple states, or other specialized types of tournaments. It
all works on any standard Windows PC, including laptop computers, that are
equipped with reasonably current versions of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft
Word. For examples that have been available for some time, look at
SuperSingles and DivvyItUp!
Starting in May 2007, this site also featured some prototype legal software. Most
such software will be FREE. The rest will be very inexpensive. The primary
purpose of this legal software will be to demonstrate to politicians holding the
purse strings, to taxpayers who have been forced quite unnecessarily to foot the
bills, and to court administrators who have often been duped into buying
expensive software and grand "systems" (that aren't really even systems in any
meaningful sense) in the past, that very good software for the judicial system can
be created quickly and inexpensively. Again, many in court administration won't
even look at what could be done, preferring instead to spend up to billions on
creating or continuing poor IT solutions that could be done far better for a tiny
fraction of what these administrators insist on spending. If you ask them why on
earth they would want to waste money like that they will give you a variety of
reasons. As a taxpayer, you should be outraged.
We are now listed in various Web directories such as AddYourSite, BowlingZone.
com, and BowlingFans.com. As the word spreads about the availability of our
better bowling software at more reasonable prices, we hope customers will
continue to provide suggestions as to what other products we can provide to
replace those overpriced products out there that don't even work well. Give us
your suggestions! We have received many suggestions and they have been or
will be incorporated into our software to the maximum extent they are
technologically feasible.
The initial bowling scoring software for scoring special events such as league
sweepers was essentially "proof of concept" software. It was all written to be run
by Excel 2002 or 2003. It was written on a challenge. It has been very well
received and has been used successfully to score many special events and not
just those limited to ordinary league sweepers. Huge singles events (which could
be up to 3,000 bowlers), various types of special doubles events, and just crazy
fun events set up during league seasons such as Witch & Wizard Doubles at
Halloween, Sweetheart Doubles for Valentine's Day, and various types of special
sweeper events right in the middle of the league season have been described
back to me.
Here are samples of some of the comments I have received.
And here's one from April 2010:
BowlerTracker, new software in 2010, found the software to be what he had
requested be developed for tracking the performance of tournament bowlers and
commented, "It's pretty neat!" He and others had been told by another vendor
that software to handle such tasks would cost $399. BowlerTracker costs only
$59.95.
New customers tell us they have seen others using various RCP Software
special events bowling data management applications and were so impressed
they called to order the software.
And people like the prices. One thing I resolved right at the beginning was to
never gouge my fellow bowlers or any court or other government system or take
advantage of them. I have been a bowler for many years. I love the sport and
currently (2009-2010 season) carry a 211 average with three perfect games.
Alright, so I choked on a 279 and a 289 this last season but .... I detest
computer geeks who seek to take advantage of bowlers, selling them inferior
software at exorbitant prices. Almost as much as detesting vendors who have
taken advantage of ignorant government officials and have bled various
government agencies, including the State of California, dry on IT projects that
could have been done better for anywhere from 1/100th to 1/1000th of what the
vendors managed to squeeze out of naive public officials. Some of those 10 year
projects could have been done in 10 weeks, with vastly better results.
So now that the concept of highly capable bowling data management software
has been established, the gloves are coming off. RCP Software will be
embarking on various projects designed to create new 2010 era software to
cover massive bowling events and all kinds of special bowling events with very
flexible compositions, such as doubles events with more than the standard three
games. SuperSingles for Excel 2002/2003 already covers up to 40 games for up
to 3,000 bowlers. The newest software of that type, SuperSingles-n-Doubles,
handles both doubles and singles for over 4,000 singles bowlers and over 8,000
doubles bowlers. It is the aim of RCP Software to totally undermine the high
prices structures of every single geek out there who is gouging bowlers who just
want to quickly score unusual and/or large events and do it without spending an
arm and a leg.
Bear with me for a few months as all the new 2010 era of bowling data
management software is created because this stuff is truly complex, unlike the
simple software that could handle things like court case data, welfare data, and
unemployment insurance data.
All future software will require Excel 2007 or later. That is necessary in order to
power some of the more exotic applications planned. It is also necessary in order
to accommodate some of the huge capacities planned. The first application of
the next generation (BowlerTracker, a utility program for tracking tournament
bowlers' performance) is already just completed as of late March 2010. It is "hub"
software, an example of a component in a modular interlocking software system.
BowlerTracker is tracking software to allow tournament club managers, bowling
centers, match club managers, bowling associations, and others who manage
large and sequential events to keep track of games bowled by members or
participants, and what their current average is over wide-ranging tournament-
type events, and how that compares to their entering averages. Several people
asked for such software and now it is available. As standalone software, it costs
$59.95. Add $4.95 sales tax if you're in California. If you purchase any primary
scoring application, you may have it for $40.
While others may want to charge you $399 for some software package just
because it has some cute little utility application included in it, or has software to
track bowlers (I heard about this ploy from a couple of customers), we will give
you better software for far less, with prices like $99.95, $59.95, and $79.95.
Some utility applications will cost far less with prices like $39.95 or $59.95. And if
you purchase a primary scoring application like the new SuperSingles-n-Doubles
or the future SuperSweeperScore 10, or even any of the existing 2002/2003 era
primary scoring applications, we will give you a discount on any utility
applications that will work with the primary software, such as DivvyItUp! (for
dividing up prize funds instantly) or BowlerTracker. And the new primary scoring
applications will actually include a starter version of DivvyItUp!
And the gloves are coming off as to capacities too. Taking advantage of the
programming possibilities with Excel 2007 and later XML-based versions, future
versions of applications expanding on standards like SuperSingles will have both
more advanced features and large enough capacities to handle statewide or
even multi-state or multi-national events. Planned sweeper-type software will also
cover events involving more games. And still none of this new software will have
exorbitant price tags. There will be no inflated prices for larger capacity versions
of software. All of it will simply have massive capacities. And those capacities will
likely be increased over time, as programming time becomes available and
computers become even more capable.
Future primary scoring applications will be like the spokes of a wheel with utility
applications like BowlerTracker being hubs. Quick transfers of data between
such modular interlocking applications will be facilitated by parallel construction
and careful alignment so that massive amounts of scoring data can be
transferred from one processing application to another in seconds.
Would you also like to have software that could score a Wii bowling league or a
sweeper, or a singles or team tournament that could span cities, counties, states
or even countries? Our technology can enable a virtual league that can span the
globe. If you are a Wii entertainment center proprietor, such as a bar or senior
home or community center owner, and would like to be able to set up and score
such a geographically diverse league, or even one spanning a number of people
at your own location and perhaps "bowling" on different nights or at different
times and who might be interested in a virtual league, please contact us about
RCP Software providing the league scoring and reporting on the Internet. A multi-
state league between franchised locations or between similar businesses (such
as bars) could probably boost business quite a bit. Or software could be
provided to you and you could manage the scores coming in over the Internet
from diverse geographical locations. Wii bowling is not necessarily done with
everyone together physically at the same time as in a bowling league that uses
16 pound balls on physical lanes in a single location so the software to handle
Wii leagues might need to be slightly different. Some such software has already
been developed in prototype form so please call if you would like to take
advantage of this business opportunity. As with everything we sell, any software
or service we provide will be reliable, inexpensive, and extremely versatile and
extremely fast.
formed in 2006 primarily to provide inexpensive yet powerful software for bowling
league secretaries and bowling centers. More recent software will provide
powerful tools for bowling associations, tournament directors/managers,
tournament club managers, match club managers, league secretaries, and
others managing a wide variety of bowling events.
Products and special order customized applications have been expanded to
cover software for government operations (particularly the courts) and certain
products for lawyers handling California appointed appeals.
Products supplied by RCP Software will always cost less and be far better than
anything available elsewhere. No software released for commercial distribution
has ever been found to have a single bug (code execution error) in it. The
emphasis is on software that works extremely well, is easy to learn, and is easy
to use. Customers are generally able to work reasonably well with our software
after only minutes of education. Instructions are well written and have been the
subject of many compliments.
Our first commercial product was SweeperScore, aimed initially at scoring
bowling league sweepers. It was first used in a Reno-bound league in the
Sacramento, California area. It has been received very well across the country
with a number of Reno, Las Vegas, and Laughlin-bound leagues using it to
quickly determine results, divide up the sweeper money in a jiffy (see
DivvyItUp!), and get headed out toward those hungry slot machines and
Blackjack tables. Tasks that used to take hours now take just seconds. It is now
often used to score special events during the middle of league seasons, such as
Valentines Day Mixed Doubles, St. Patrick's Day doubles, and Halloween Witch
& Wizard Doubles.
Bowling officials have found the early SweeperScore and SuperSingles
applications to be quite flexible and usable for scoring various events besides
just league sweepers. As league and other types of bowling events managers
have discovered all across the country, it is now possible to have software that
can run on an ordinary Windows laptop computer, manage events with large
numbers of bowlers, do all the data management quickly, and do all of this at a
very reasonable cost. A number of leagues have now switched from paying the
bowling center hosting the sweeper to score their special events to doing it
themselves at a fraction of the cost
If you know of other bowling organizations who could use such software, please
direct them to this Web site.
During 2010, as a further benefit to all those beleaguered bowling officials who
have been taken advantage of in the past by computer geeks just out to make a
buck off bowlers (I know of some suckers who spent $20,000 on such software
and are too embarrassed to admit they wasted their money), RCP Software will
continue development of software to manage bowling data, basing the new
software on the expanded capabilities of Microsoft Excel 2007. This will enable
the management of truly huge amounts of data but still at a reasonable cost. The
new 2010 era software will require a fairly recent computer with preferably 2GB
or more of RAM and a fairly fast processor. The first of the 2010 versions of
primary scoring applications is SuperSingles-n-Doubles, newly available as of
late April 2010. It will handle 4,000 singles or 8,000 doubles bowlers bowling up
to 114 games, plus special events such as Mulligan events, and all for $99.95
plus $8.25 sales tax for California residents. It will work compatibly with
BowlerTracker 10, the first of the compatible 2010 modular interlocking utility
applications. Together, these two new applications provide an excellent example
of modular interlocking software, something to which politicians and government
bureaucrats should pay attention. But, due to lobbying and kickbacks, they
probably won't and will continue to waste taxpayer money by the bucketful, as
described more at the govsoft page.
The previously created bowling data management software will continue to be
available for all those who have not yet transitioned to the latest era of
computers and software engines such as Microsoft Office 2007. The old software
will also run inside Excel 2007 in Compatibility Mode if you happen to purchase a
new computer but don't need the expanded capabilities of the newest software.
RCP Software can provide customized software for scoring sweepers, special
events, doubles tournaments (including a number of interesting variations on the
standard men's or women's doubles such as mixed doubles, generic doubles, hi-
low doubles, Mulligan doubles), large singles tournaments, marathon doubles or
singles tournaments spread over multiple dates, events run simultaneously in
multiple counties or multiple states, or other specialized types of tournaments. It
all works on any standard Windows PC, including laptop computers, that are
equipped with reasonably current versions of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft
Word. For examples that have been available for some time, look at
SuperSingles and DivvyItUp!
Starting in May 2007, this site also featured some prototype legal software. Most
such software will be FREE. The rest will be very inexpensive. The primary
purpose of this legal software will be to demonstrate to politicians holding the
purse strings, to taxpayers who have been forced quite unnecessarily to foot the
bills, and to court administrators who have often been duped into buying
expensive software and grand "systems" (that aren't really even systems in any
meaningful sense) in the past, that very good software for the judicial system can
be created quickly and inexpensively. Again, many in court administration won't
even look at what could be done, preferring instead to spend up to billions on
creating or continuing poor IT solutions that could be done far better for a tiny
fraction of what these administrators insist on spending. If you ask them why on
earth they would want to waste money like that they will give you a variety of
reasons. As a taxpayer, you should be outraged.
- Software sold by RCP Software is created by Richard Power,
who is also the freelance technology columnist for the Daily
Recorder, a legal newspaper published in Sacramento,
California, as part of the Los Angeles Daily Journal chain of
newspapers. Richard has been a bowler for many years and a
lawyer since 1976.
We are now listed in various Web directories such as AddYourSite, BowlingZone.
com, and BowlingFans.com. As the word spreads about the availability of our
better bowling software at more reasonable prices, we hope customers will
continue to provide suggestions as to what other products we can provide to
replace those overpriced products out there that don't even work well. Give us
your suggestions! We have received many suggestions and they have been or
will be incorporated into our software to the maximum extent they are
technologically feasible.
The initial bowling scoring software for scoring special events such as league
sweepers was essentially "proof of concept" software. It was all written to be run
by Excel 2002 or 2003. It was written on a challenge. It has been very well
received and has been used successfully to score many special events and not
just those limited to ordinary league sweepers. Huge singles events (which could
be up to 3,000 bowlers), various types of special doubles events, and just crazy
fun events set up during league seasons such as Witch & Wizard Doubles at
Halloween, Sweetheart Doubles for Valentine's Day, and various types of special
sweeper events right in the middle of the league season have been described
back to me.
Here are samples of some of the comments I have received.
- "Wow!"
- "I love your software!"
- "You saved my butt." V.L.
And here's one from April 2010:
- "Love the software! Terrific manual to help me through and well-designed
program. Easy to do data input, figure out awards quickly and easy to
understand. Thank you thank you thank you!" Jenny P.
BowlerTracker, new software in 2010, found the software to be what he had
requested be developed for tracking the performance of tournament bowlers and
commented, "It's pretty neat!" He and others had been told by another vendor
that software to handle such tasks would cost $399. BowlerTracker costs only
$59.95.
New customers tell us they have seen others using various RCP Software
special events bowling data management applications and were so impressed
they called to order the software.
And people like the prices. One thing I resolved right at the beginning was to
never gouge my fellow bowlers or any court or other government system or take
advantage of them. I have been a bowler for many years. I love the sport and
currently (2009-2010 season) carry a 211 average with three perfect games.
Alright, so I choked on a 279 and a 289 this last season but .... I detest
computer geeks who seek to take advantage of bowlers, selling them inferior
software at exorbitant prices. Almost as much as detesting vendors who have
taken advantage of ignorant government officials and have bled various
government agencies, including the State of California, dry on IT projects that
could have been done better for anywhere from 1/100th to 1/1000th of what the
vendors managed to squeeze out of naive public officials. Some of those 10 year
projects could have been done in 10 weeks, with vastly better results.
So now that the concept of highly capable bowling data management software
has been established, the gloves are coming off. RCP Software will be
embarking on various projects designed to create new 2010 era software to
cover massive bowling events and all kinds of special bowling events with very
flexible compositions, such as doubles events with more than the standard three
games. SuperSingles for Excel 2002/2003 already covers up to 40 games for up
to 3,000 bowlers. The newest software of that type, SuperSingles-n-Doubles,
handles both doubles and singles for over 4,000 singles bowlers and over 8,000
doubles bowlers. It is the aim of RCP Software to totally undermine the high
prices structures of every single geek out there who is gouging bowlers who just
want to quickly score unusual and/or large events and do it without spending an
arm and a leg.
Bear with me for a few months as all the new 2010 era of bowling data
management software is created because this stuff is truly complex, unlike the
simple software that could handle things like court case data, welfare data, and
unemployment insurance data.
All future software will require Excel 2007 or later. That is necessary in order to
power some of the more exotic applications planned. It is also necessary in order
to accommodate some of the huge capacities planned. The first application of
the next generation (BowlerTracker, a utility program for tracking tournament
bowlers' performance) is already just completed as of late March 2010. It is "hub"
software, an example of a component in a modular interlocking software system.
BowlerTracker is tracking software to allow tournament club managers, bowling
centers, match club managers, bowling associations, and others who manage
large and sequential events to keep track of games bowled by members or
participants, and what their current average is over wide-ranging tournament-
type events, and how that compares to their entering averages. Several people
asked for such software and now it is available. As standalone software, it costs
$59.95. Add $4.95 sales tax if you're in California. If you purchase any primary
scoring application, you may have it for $40.
While others may want to charge you $399 for some software package just
because it has some cute little utility application included in it, or has software to
track bowlers (I heard about this ploy from a couple of customers), we will give
you better software for far less, with prices like $99.95, $59.95, and $79.95.
Some utility applications will cost far less with prices like $39.95 or $59.95. And if
you purchase a primary scoring application like the new SuperSingles-n-Doubles
or the future SuperSweeperScore 10, or even any of the existing 2002/2003 era
primary scoring applications, we will give you a discount on any utility
applications that will work with the primary software, such as DivvyItUp! (for
dividing up prize funds instantly) or BowlerTracker. And the new primary scoring
applications will actually include a starter version of DivvyItUp!
And the gloves are coming off as to capacities too. Taking advantage of the
programming possibilities with Excel 2007 and later XML-based versions, future
versions of applications expanding on standards like SuperSingles will have both
more advanced features and large enough capacities to handle statewide or
even multi-state or multi-national events. Planned sweeper-type software will also
cover events involving more games. And still none of this new software will have
exorbitant price tags. There will be no inflated prices for larger capacity versions
of software. All of it will simply have massive capacities. And those capacities will
likely be increased over time, as programming time becomes available and
computers become even more capable.
Future primary scoring applications will be like the spokes of a wheel with utility
applications like BowlerTracker being hubs. Quick transfers of data between
such modular interlocking applications will be facilitated by parallel construction
and careful alignment so that massive amounts of scoring data can be
transferred from one processing application to another in seconds.
Would you also like to have software that could score a Wii bowling league or a
sweeper, or a singles or team tournament that could span cities, counties, states
or even countries? Our technology can enable a virtual league that can span the
globe. If you are a Wii entertainment center proprietor, such as a bar or senior
home or community center owner, and would like to be able to set up and score
such a geographically diverse league, or even one spanning a number of people
at your own location and perhaps "bowling" on different nights or at different
times and who might be interested in a virtual league, please contact us about
RCP Software providing the league scoring and reporting on the Internet. A multi-
state league between franchised locations or between similar businesses (such
as bars) could probably boost business quite a bit. Or software could be
provided to you and you could manage the scores coming in over the Internet
from diverse geographical locations. Wii bowling is not necessarily done with
everyone together physically at the same time as in a bowling league that uses
16 pound balls on physical lanes in a single location so the software to handle
Wii leagues might need to be slightly different. Some such software has already
been developed in prototype form so please call if you would like to take
advantage of this business opportunity. As with everything we sell, any software
or service we provide will be reliable, inexpensive, and extremely versatile and
extremely fast.
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