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by thematrixeatsyou (Ben), 2005.
Made in New Zealand.

note: this software is far from complete, but still really good.

PREFACE:
I made most of this one friday night (25-11-05). Then I did some more work on it
the next day (Saturday 26th), such as live drawing, and easy-to-change height,
width, and start position. (I had to recompile it originally.) It used to take
ages (5 mins at least) to draw a 300x200 maze live. Then it took one minute.
Right now, instead of 60 seconds, it now takes 20 seconds.

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System requirements:
- 32MB RAM, AT LEAST!
- A good video card (should have at least 16MB VRAM)
- An OS or Windows (N.B. Windows does not count as an OPERATING system)
- Compiler for non-Windows versions (gcc for Linux, etc.)
- Allegro 4.0.3 (alleg40.dll for Windows)
- Monitor capable of 640x480x16bpp screen resolution
- A human to type in stuff
- A human to solve the puzzles
- A CPU. I really don't care how slow it is.

Recommended specs:
- 200MHz machine (I have 1GHz and it's fine)
- A printer (YES!)

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Instructions on use:
1. Choose which app you want.
 - dazemaze_draw.exe - draw maze but don't save
 - dazemaze_save.exe - draw and save
 - dazemaze_edit.exe - edit an 80x60 maze, draw, and save

2. Open the app.
3. Type in these:
 - Width: width of the maze (left/right) - 80 recommended
 - Height: height of the maze (up/down) - 60 recommended
 !!! Width X Height must not exceed 65536! Try 300x200 or 256x256 for big.
 !!! Neither Width nor Height can exceed 512! 
 - Start X/Y: Starting position: x=how far from left, y=from top. - 0,0 standard
 - Draw delay: How many steps the pointer must be off-screen before a refresh.
     - 50 recommended.

4. Enjoy.

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Some notes:
I use PCX because it spits out smaller images.
Be careful with JPEGs! They can screw up your image, and the benefits are small.
My verdict: don't use JPEG.
CONVERT TO PNG WHENEVER. GIF if you're stuck.
Just note that GIFs have evil LZW royalties.

Compare a 300x200 maze:
  on PCX: abt 2.8MB
  on BMP: 10.9MB
  on JPG(85%): 1.56MB
  on GIF: 189KB
  on PNG(compression 9): 121KB.

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Contact me at thematrixeatsyou@yahoo.co.nz and tell me what you think.
I am also on http://www.allegro.cc doing a whole bunch of stuff.
- Ben

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