PAC PC======1. Game Instructions--------------------Eat the dots
and avoid the ghosts, eat a flashing power pill thenchase and eat
the ghosts, eat fruit for extra points. That'sabout all there is
too it really.Extra lives at 10000pts, 30000pts, 50000pts, 80000
ptsthen every 30000 after that.2. Controls-----------Arrow keys, or
'A' - Up 'Z' - Down '' - Right3. General Stuff----------------Sound
- To allow sound in the game you need to set the DOS
'blaster'variable. If you have a soundblaster Pro, or better, this
should bedone already in your autoexec.bat. If you don't set the
blaster variable but have a SB-Pro compatible card, eg. Zeos
integratedbusiness audio ( is that an obscure soundcard or what?)
you need to do the following at the DOS command prompt...set
blaster=A220 I5 D1 Where A220 is the port your card uses, usually
port 220, I is theinterrupt the card uses ( usually 5 but it could
be 7 ), andD is the DMA channel to use ( usually 1 could be 3 ).4.
About the Game & Author--------------------------This game was
written over about 4 weeks, I started it after playingMs.PacMan in
a local arcade and remembering how good the original gamewas, so...
I began to code one, this ended up in me actually buying a full
size Ms.PacMan and converting to a PacMan machine ( special thanks
must go to Dock Cutlip for all his help there ). All I need now is
a choplifterand my life is complete, well probably not but it'd be
a start.Well the result is very similar to Pac Man, I haven't
duplicated the exact ghost movement patterns but a lot of the other
stuff is the same, even if it does look a little squashed ( the
original has a vertically mounted monitor so has a higher vertical
resolution than the PC's 200 pixels, probably about 320 pixels
vertically on the arcade machine ).The games written in 'C', "yuk"
I hear assembler programmers shout,with assembly routine for sound,
sprite graphics, joystick, drawing characters on the screen, that
sort of thing, and was coded on, inturn, a Zeos pentium 90, a Zeos
pentium 100 ( 90 clocked at 100 ) anda DEC 486-dx2-66. One thing is
that you'll need a card with a decentvideo bandwidth, just about
anything VLB/PCI will do, a regular oldISA card probably won't hack
it.This game is complete freeware, you don't have to
register/pay/contributeor whatever, it's free !! Now who said
"There ain't no such thingas a free lunch...". This game is 'as is'
and comes with no warrantyeither specific or implied, you are quite
free to distribute it,copy it or eat it, whatever you want to do.
You should not, however,charge for it. Selling this game for
profit, rather than a duplicationfee, will result in really bad
Karma, and depending on yourreligious persuasion may result in
eternal damnation, or at leasta couple of centuries in purgatory.If
you have any comments you can reach me via internet e-mail
[email protected] out the pycho mode, real
fun..5. Thanks---------Thanks must go to, K.Voegele various stuff
and testing, K.Chueng& N.Akhtar for Beta testing, Dock Cutlip
for invaluable help in converting my Ms.PacMan to Pac Man.Also to
Matt Cooley, for his 'Game World' web pages with audio samplesand
video game related stuff plus Marshall Stowe for his excellent Pac
Page ( an inspiration to all Pac maniacs ),6. Interesting Web Sites
to visit.----------------------------------The St. Louis Coin-Op
and Video Game
Museumhttp://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu:8001/rynersw/coinop.htmlThe
Pac
Page.http://www4.ncsu.edu/eos/users/m/msstowe/WWW/Pac-Man/pac-man.htmlMatt
Cooley's Game
Worldhttp://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/m/mvcooley/index.htmlMy home
page..( under construction
)http://mhd2.moorhead.msus.edu/~rowan
