Dear Pac-Fanatic

Thank you very much for buying this game, i hope you will enjoy it.


How To Use Classic Pucman
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Just boot the disk! CLASSIC PUCMAN is hard drive installable, there is
a script to Install the game to a partition called WORK: (if your drive
has a different name you will need to edit the script and Icons' INFO,
changing all references from WORK: to you hard drive partition name.)
The game is not copy protected so you can make a backup and we ask that
you do not distribute copies of it .... PLEEEASE

* Boot the Pucman disk, or run it from hard drive (use the installer)
* Once loaded Use your Joystick to select type of game and how many players.
* Move Pucman round the maze and eat all the pills, whilst avoiding the 
  Ghosts. White pills at each corner of the screen allow you to eat the 
  ghosts. Collect fruit for bonuses. 
* Clear the screen of pills to complete the level.

* The rest is history.

Press escape to quit the game and return to the main menu, escape again 
quits the game completely.



Background
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We at Augenblick decided to write an arcade game but could not decide
which "CLASSIC" to reproduce.  By chance we came across a Deluxe version
of Pacman which was described by many UK magazines as "The Best Pacman".
A quick dig around the PD libraries and the Internet revealed over 30
versions ranging from dire to mediocre.  So the decision was made for us
, if no one else had bothered trying to write a "REAL" pacman, we would.


So the campaign began.  Believe it or not we could not find a single PACMAN 
arcade machine.  We eventually found a copy called "PUCKMAN".  This was
a very dirty copy of the origonal.  The naughty people responsible had
only changed the names of the ghosts and left all of the code intact 
(although I have heard that PUCKMAN was the machines origonal title but
the U was changed and the K removed for the american market!)
Over the weeks we played, studied and timed that arcade machine.  We then
started the amiga conversion.

Despite what may people think, PACMAN is not an easy game to write, witness
many, many failed attempts.  The exact intelligence routine of the ghosts
still elludes us but every other feature has been added and the intelligence
routine we designed is less predictable and more sophisticated than the
origonal.

When the arcade conversion was complete it was suggested by an amiga
magazine that we add new features so we spent another few weeks coding
the PUCMAN PLUS features,  trying to expand on the origonal without
losing that special something.

Hope you enjoy the game!!!!!

TIP - The area above the ghost house is special!!! (there is also another
place but you will have to find that!)

Please ask F1 Software for any new Augenblick titles!!!!
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F1 Software
1 Lower Mill Close
Goldthorpe
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S63 9BY

01709-888127

phil@ware5d.demon.co.uk


