Curriculum

PAC PC v2.00A Jan 1st 1997

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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