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- -=( RA Pong )=-
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- What is RA-PONG:
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- Well.. Everybody is doing online arcade games these days.. So I felt that
- I couldn't stay behind..;-)) Which is the main reason I wrote this little
- BBS version of the old PONG game. Just for the fun of it..
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- The idea is simple: You, the player have a bat, there's a ball and 3 walls..
- Keep the ball bouncing around as long as possible.
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- Target of the game is to become KING PONG and collect fame among your
- colleague players! (Not to mention among the people of your phone company ;-)
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- Scoring:
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- - For every time the ball hits your bat you get <LEVEL> pongs.
- So, on level 1, you get 1 pong, level 2 you get 2 pongs, etc.
- - Every 25 pongs you get a free ball.
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- If you don't stop the ball from getting of the screen, you loose a bal.
- By default you get 3 balls (but the sysop can overrule this value)
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- Every 50 pongs, you gain a level and loose 8 positions of the left side of
- the screen. The ball and the cursor becomes invisable in that part of the
- playing area. Which makes it even more difficult to score points!
- After level 7, things stay as they are but you get 10 points for every
- hit you make. Wonder if anyone gets that far..;)
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- If the sysop installed a value, it's also possible togain online time
- while moving to the next level..
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- How to Play:
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- You can use the Arrow-Up key to move the bat Up and the Arrow-Down
- Key to move it down.
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- Press 'Q' to abort a game. You get back to the main menu. BUT as long as you're
- playing on level 1, you can't quit without loosing your chance on the hall of
- fame!
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- If the game doesn't respond to your arrow-up/arrow-down keys turn on the
- numlock. the 8 and 2 key are also accepted.
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- The Menu:
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- There are 6 choices in the mainmenu:
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- [H] See the hall of fame.
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- Shows the hall of fame which contains King Pong and the 14 best
- PONG players.
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- [P] Play PONG
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- Play a game of remote pong. To abort a game you can press the Q
- key. Even if you bail out, if your score is high enough (Higher
- than the other scores OR higher than you own best score until
- now) you get into the hall of fame.
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- [S] Toggle Sound effects
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- RA-PONG does ANSI music to make noises on your remote terminal.
- Pitty enough there aren't to many communication programs which
- support music. The default value is OFF.
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- [T] Test soundeffects.
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- This send a small piece of ANSI music to your communication
- program. Since there are 2 kinds of ANSI music (terminated with a
- #13 or a #14) AND because not that many programs support it at all,
- this is the way to find out if you can use it. If you don't hear
- a thing, you're out of luck...
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- [H] Help
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- Read this helpfile
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- [Q] Quit
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- Leave RA-PONG and return to the BBS.
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- Have a nice play!
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