Apur-ee.291
net.games.pacman
utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!davy
Sat Apr  3 17:40:07 1982
New Pacman Intro

Here's my version, it doesn't really describe eating things in detail, but
I couldn't stand the other one.  I have added the ability to use the 
"arrow keys", take that out if you don't have it (it's an easy mod).

(note: I wiped out the tabs, so that this would almost fit on a screen, sorry
       if it's hard to read.)

       --Dave Curry
       pur-ee!davy

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instruct()
{
clr();
POS(0, 0);
printw("\t\t\t\t    PACMAN\n\n");
printw("Object: Move the PACMAN around the maze, eating all the gold \(\'%c\'\).\n", GOLD);
printw("\tWatch out for monsters \(upper case\), as they will eat you if you run\n");
printw("\tinto them.  When you eat a \'%c\', the monsters become edible for a short\n", POTION);
printw("\ttime. During this time the monsters are depicted as lower case letters.\n");
printw("\tEat as many monsters as you can during this time, before the revert to \n");
printw("\tupper case. The passage in the center takes the PACMAN \"around back\"\n");
printw("\tto the other side.  Eat the treasure for extra points.  You have\n");
printw("\t%d PACMEN per game.\n\n", MAXPAC);
printw("        Type:   h or ^H 	to move left\n");
printw("                l or ^L 	to move right\n");
printw("                k, w or ^K      to move up\n");
printw("                j, x or ^J      to move down\n");
printw("                <SPACE> or HOME	to halt \n");
printw("                q       	to quit\n\n");
printw("\n        Type:   1       easy game\n");
printw("                2       intelligent monsters\n");
refresh();
}
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