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- PAC PC v2.00A Jan 1st 1997
- =============================
-
- Contents:
-
- 1. System Requirements
- 2. Running the Game
- 3. Game Instructions
- 4. Controls & Keys
- 5. Soundcard Support (* IMPORTANT )
- 6. Video Mode Support (* IMPORTANT )
- 7. Config Screen Options
- 8. About the Game & Author
- 9. Thanks
- 10. Interesting Web Sites to visit.
- 11. Release Histoty/What's New
-
-
-
- 1. System Requirements
- ----------------------
-
- 386-33 with local bus video ( minimum )
-
- It is at its best running on a 486-33, or better, with local bus
- video ( VESA or PCI ).
-
- 1 Meg of extended Memory ( if you want sound )
- Sound Blaster Pro, or compatible, soundcard.
- Multi-sync monitor for the full screen mode.
-
- Note: This game won't run on a 286.
-
- Note: You will need 1 Meg of extended memory so make sure you have
- HIMEM.SYS or someother XMS manager loaded in you config.sys.
-
-
-
- 2. Running the Game
- -------------------
-
- At the DOS prompt type
-
- pacpc2
- then hit enter
-
- or if you want to run the full screen mode and your monitor can
- take it ( READ SECTION 5 !!) type
-
- pacpc2 f
- then hit enter
-
-
-
-
- 3. Game Instructions
- --------------------
-
- Eat the dots and avoid the ghosts, eat a flashing power pill then chase and
- eat the ghosts. Also eat any fruit for extra points. That's about
- all there is too it really.
-
- Eating a '.' is worth 10 points, power pills 50 points.
- Ghosts score 200,400,800,1600 eaten in order.
-
- Extra lives at 10000pts, 30000pts, 50000pts, 80000 pts
- then every 30000 after that.
-
- Fruit are worth various points.
-
-
- 4. Controls & Keys
- ------------------
-
- Arrow keys, or
- 'A' - Up
- 'Z' - Down
- 'N' - Left
- 'M' - Right
-
- 'P' - Pause
- 'Q' - Sound On/Off
-
-
- On the title screens, press
-
- 'A' for info about the game,
-
- 'J' to calibrate and use a joystick
-
- 'C' to turn sound on/off, set full screen mode and to turn of
- the FAST option. There was an upgrade for PacMan that made
- her move about twice as fast as the ghosts, this gives the
- same results. See section 7 for details.
-
-
- ESC - Quits current game or exits program
-
-
- 5. Soundcard Support
- --------------------
-
- This game only supports Soundblaster Pro or better soundcards. It should work
- with compatibles but I haven't tested it with many.
-
- To allow sound in the game you need to set the DOS 'BLASTER' variable.
- If you have a soundblaster Pro, or better, this should already be in your
- autoexec.bat.
-
- If you don't set the blaster variable but have a SB-Pro compatible card,
- eg. Zeos integrated business audio using the ESS chip ( is that an obscure
- soundcard or what?) you need to do the following at the DOS command prompt
-
- set blaster=A220 I5 D1
-
- Where :
- A is the port your card uses, usually port 220.
- I is the interrupt the card uses, usually 5 but it could be 7.
- D is the DMA channel to use, usually 1 could be 3.
-
- The hardware addresses MUST match the settings of the card, or you
- will not get sound.
-
- There are immediate plans to support any other soundcards or the PC's
- internal buzzer. However I like the look of these new Interwave based
- cards so I might get one of those and support it in the future.
-
-
-
- 6. Video Mode Support
- ---------------------
-
- This is really important !!
-
- PacPC supports a full screen mode, this uses a vertical resolution of 288
- pixels and horizontal resolution of 224 pixels, just like the old arcade
- machine ! This mode only really works on 'newer' multi-sync monitors
- ( eg. CTX 1765/1545 ).
-
- By default PacPC runs in a compatible mode, 320x200 pixels and the screen
- scrolls up and down. To run in its full glory run with the command line
- option F ie. PACPC2 F
-
- If your screen blanks or the picture goes crazy it probably means that your
- monitor can't run the full screen mode, so just hit escape and run with the
- compatible mode.
-
- Also you can configure the video mode from the 'Config' screen within PacPc.
- Just hit 'C' on one of the title screens and look for the Video Mode
- options.
-
-
- 7. Config Screen Options
- ------------------------------
-
- From the main title pressing 'C' takes you to the 'Config' screen
- here you can make Pac move double her speed, turn audio on/off and
- Change the video mode.
-
- Fast Pac
- 'F' turns on/off the fast pac mode, here you move much faster
- than the ghosts.
-
- Number of Lives:
- 'N' will change number of lives you can play with from 1 to 5.
-
- Begin Level:
- 'B' changes the beginning level from 1 to 30. The game plays
- pretty much the same after level 21 with mazes 3 & 4 repeating
- with different colours. So you don't need to go higher than 29.
- Carry on pressing 'B' as after level 30 is goes back to 1.
-
- Joystick sensitivity:
- 'T' changes the joystick sensitivity. This affects how the program
- detects movement of the joystick. Lower values mean smaller movements
- of the joystick detect a movement, higher values means the joystick
- is less sensitive.
-
-
-
- 8. About the Game & Author
- --------------------------
-
- Welcome to release 2.00 of PacPc, after a lot of modifications from the
- first release
-
- I used the same basic 'engine' I wrote for MsPacPc and modified that to
- behave like the original arcade game, and well it's pretty close unless
- you really want to look for differences.
-
- Again it's all coded in C along with assembler routines for sound, sprites,
- screen updates etc.
-
- Please don't mail me asking for the source code as I will not be releasing
- any of it.
-
- This game is FREEWARE, you don't have to register/pay/contribute or whatever,
- it's free !! Now who said "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch...".
- This game is 'as is' and comes with no warranty either 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 valid duplication fee, will result in really bad Karma, and
- depending on your religious persuasion may result in eternal damnation,
- or at least a couple of centuries in purgatory.
-
- Since the last releases I've moved e-mail address, and the games should have
- a new permanent web page.
-
- If you have any comments you can reach me via internet e-mail at
- jrokweb@san.rr.com
-
-
- 9. Thanks
- ---------
-
- Thanks must go to all those who've I've discussed the game with and
- have done any sort of testing with it. These include, Kim Voegele,
- Lee Tonks, Marshall Stowe Sloane, Si Owen, Nadeem Ahktar, Kev
- Cheung, Dave Hallock plus anyone else I've forgotten (sorry!).
- BTW the cheat code is to type eggs <and press enter> during
- game play, f1,f2 & f3 do cheat things.
-
-
- 10.Interesting Web Sites to visit.
- ----------------------------------
-
- Yahoo's list of classic arcade game stuff
- http://www.yahoo.com/Recreation/Games/Video_Games/Classic_Arcade_Games/
-
- The Pac Page.
- http://www4.ncsu.edu/eos/users/m/msstowe/WWW/Pac-Man/pac-man.html
-
- Matt Cooley's Game World
- http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/m/mvcooley/index.html
-
-
- The Home of PacPC games & PC*Bert
-
- http://www.jrok.com
-
-
- 11. What's New/Release History
- ------------------------------
-
- V2.0A 1/1/1997 - Minor bug fixe for audio and ghosts reverse direction
- correctly.
-
- V2.0 Dec 1996 - Major update from the v1.00 too many differences
- to list.
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-