        P A C - M A N   9 9   -   The utlimate (?) Pac-Man for the TI-86!

            Programmed by Patrick Davidson (pad@calc.org)

---------------------------------------) Table of Contents

                  1. Introduction ..................... 15
                  2. System Requirements .............. 22
                  3. Installation Instructions ........ 27
                  4. Legal stuff ...................... 41
                  5. Playing the Game ................. 63
                  6. Contacting the Programmer ........ 81
                  7. Versions History ................ 113
               
1--------------------------------------) Introduction

   Pac-Man 99 is a high-performance Pac-Man style game for TI-86 calculators
It has many features, such as scrolling, selection of speed and number of
enemies, high scores, a save game feature, and more.  This version now has
8 carefully designed levels.

2--------------------------------------) System requirements

   - A TI-86 !
   - 4.5K of memory to store the game

3--------------------------------------) Installation Instructions

    Since this is an assembly program, it is stored in the calculator as an
executable file rather than text.  Because of this, you cannot easily type
in the program.  You must send it to the calculator to load it.  If you have
a graph-link to connect the calculator to your computer, you can load it by
sending the executable file "PACMAN99.86P" to your calculator.  If you cannot
connect your calculator to your computer, you must send it to your
calculator from another calculator that already has it.

    Once the program has been copied to your calculator, you can run it by
entering the command "Asm(pacman99" on the home screen.  You can also run it
from a "shell" program if you want to.

4--------------------------------------) Legal stuff

Since you did not pay me anything for the right to use this software, there
is no warranty of any kind.  This software has been tested, and at the time
of release the author was not aware of any serious problems with it.
However, there is still a possibility of unforeseen problems.  If you do
encounter any problems with this program, please inform me as soon as
possible (of course, I cannot guarantee that I will fix such problems).

This software is in the public domain, which means that it is not copyrighted
at all.  Thus you may use, copy, or modify it any way you want.

However, I would appreciate if you at least do the following if you are
making a modified version:

 - Don't restrict distribution of it
 - Supply source code
 - Give me a reasonable amount of credit
 - Make your version also public domain, or copyrighted under a license that
   still allows users to distibute modified versions freely 

              
5--------------------------------------) Playing the game

   When you run the game, you will see the title screen.  This screen will
display some contact addresses and give you a menu.  You can point to menu
items by pressing the up and down arrow keys.  Press [ENTER] to perform the
action shown.  Selecting the "Change Speed" or "Change # of enemies" items
will switch between the possible choices.  The "Read Instructions" command
displays a one-screen summary of the in-game controls.  To start playing the
game, select (guess what?) the "Start playing Pac-Man!" itme.

   The gameplay is similar to the classic Pac-Man design.  You can move
around with the arrow keys.  There are two control modes, "auto-pilot" and
"manual" that you can switch between by pressing [2nd].  In the "manual"
move you only move while you hold down the arrows, but in "auto-pilot" you
keep moving until hitting a wall.  You can press [EXIT] to quit the game
immediately.  Press [MORE] to save the game and then exit (the game will
automatically resume where you left off the next time you run Pac-Man 99).

6--------------------------------------) Contacting me

If you find any bugs in this game or have suggestions or comments about it,
please tell me in E-Mail!  If you are writing to report a bug, please be
sure to tell me exactly what the problem is and describe exactly what you
did before the problem occured.  If you don't do so, it will be very hard
for me to tell what is going wrong!  You should also tell me which version
of the game you have in any mail you send me.  My main E-Mail address is:

        pad@calc.org

I will usually answer my E-Mail within a week.  If I don't, you can try to
write to one of my other addresses below.  I will not be replying from that
address, so if your E-Mail is set up to block all messages except those from
certain addressses, you'll have to send it to one of the other addresses and
un-block that address.  This sort of blocking has caused trouble for me
before since some people didn't even un-block the address they sent to.
The other addresses at which you can E-Mail me are:

        pad@ocf.berkeley.edu
        pad@uclink4.berkeley.edu
        luezma@netscape.net
        ariwsi@rocketmail.com
        eeulplek@webmail.bellsouth.net
        axeeodyx@easley.net

You can always get the latest version of this game, as well as other
programs of mine, from my web page.  The addresses are:

        http://pad.calc.org/      
        http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~pad/
           
7--------------------------------------) Version history

 [Since this section was getting extremely long, all of the information on
  versions prior to Pac-Man 99 v1.0 has been removed]

Pac-Man 99 Version 1.0 (12-Jan-1999)
      - Added 3 new levels
      - Redesigned title screen
      - Added speed selection
      - Size : 4454 bytes

Pac-Man 99 Version 1.1 (2-Feb-1999)
      - Removed some unused come
      - Size : 4378

Pac-Man 99 Version 2.0 (9-Jun-1999)
      - Fixed a bug which could corrupt other programs
      - Size : 4383

Pac-Man 99 Version 4.0 (18-Nov-1999)
      - This time, the bug is really fixed
      - Fixed another bug that corrupted Pac-Man image when restoring
      - Added a "ZOOM" mode even faster than "FAST"
      - Updated contact addresses in executable
      - Size : 4500 

Pac-Man 99 Version 3.0 for TI-86 (7-Sept-2000)
      - Ported to TI-86
      - Size : 4597
