PacMan3D Information

www.fifsoft.com/pacman

HOW TO PLAY

Very similar to the original pacman game - the object is to collect all the yellow orbs in order to finish each level. If you get eaten by another pac, you die. But if you collect a grey orb, they turn into ghosts, you can eat them, and they die. For each yellow orb collected you receive 10 points, each grey orb 50 points. For the first ghost eaten you receive 500 points, then 1000, 1500 etc for each after that until ghost mode runs out, and the amount resets to 0.
Tip - if you collect another grey orb before ghost mode runs out, the amount will continue incrementing without resetting.

The game contains 12 levels.

COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS

nosound - turns off sound fx
notimer - turns off the timer that controls the speed
cheat - turns on cheat mode (see Cheating section)
nocrack - removes the bum cracks
volume [n] - change the sound volume; n = 0-255
windowed - run in a window
fullscreen - run full screen
video-width [n] - change the video width
video-height [n] - change the video height
reset-savegames - Delete Save Games
reset-hiscores - Delete Hi-Scores

Parameters can also be put into pacman.ini. Each parameter must be on a separate line.

REQUIREMENTS

Pentium. 4mb ram. Windows or Linux. etc etc

The code can also be compiled on the following operating systems (untested): MS-DOS, BeOS, QNX, MacOSX

KEYS

UP - Turn upwards (also 7 on num keypad)
DOWN - Turn downwards (also 3 on num keypad)
LEFT - Turn left (also 1 on num keypad)
RIGHT - Turn right (also 9 on num keypad)
ESC - Menu, esc to resume
F1 - Turn on/off sound fx
F2 - Save Game
P - Pause, any other key to resume

CHEATING

Cheat keys (cheat mode must be enabled):

Z - end level
C - ghost mode
O - pause; use this mode for taking a screen capture

LICENSE

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

SOURCE CODE

Available from the website.

LEVEL EDITOR

Download from the website.

VERSION

1.3

RECENT UPDATES

v1.3
28/12/02 - Made source code cross platform (about time). Added parameters to allow the game to run windowed, fullscreen, or to change the vid resolution, or sound volume.

v1.2
09/02/02 - Fixed a few bugs, particularly those related to faster computer systems, enabled save during game, enabled command line parameters with Windows version, added 'nocrack' parameter

v1.1
06/11/01 - Added 6 new levels, also redone level 3.

PROBLEMS

All .dat and .pac files should be in a subdirectory called DATA (an error message should indicate if there is a problem loading any datafiles).

The Linux build requires Glibc 2.3. If this is a problem, I recommend downloading the source code and compiling the game yourself. The Allegro games library (alleg.sf.net) is required to compile the game.

ANYTHING ELSE

That's about it.

WEBSITE

www.fifsoft.com/pacman

EMAIL

games@fifsoft.com

CREDITS

Programming, art, sound fx: Andrew Pike
Windows version compiled with MinGW www.mingw.org
Linux binary compiled on RedHat 8
Allegro Game Library alleg.sf.net
Check out www.allegro.cc for more Allegro related stuff