Anpong. Complete documentation.

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ANPONG v1.1
by Anatoliy Kovalenko, (C)1998, 2002.

Well, I'm feeling lazy to write this manual in normal English because I don't think anyone will play this game. If you like it and don't understand something, write me an e-mail and I'll explain everything in detail.

Just short notes:

1) If the ball moves too fast, call the program with a delay parameter: the greater param is, the slower the ball moves. Examples:
Intel 486-66MHz - "ANPONG 10"
Celeron 1300MHz - "ANPONG 400".
The maximum delay is 30000.
2) You can play in VGA 640x480 screen, call "ANPONG vga".
3) You can combine params, for example "ANPONG 300 vga"

The rules.

It is very difficult to win in this game! The task is to finish 5 levels. The goal of each level is to drop the ball to the gate at the top of the screen (it is marked with pink lines). To open the gate:

1) Your ball should touch a yellow thing at least once, it's a key. Then you will see "KEY ON".
2) JUMP READY should be 100%, it will be reset on unsuccessful jump.
3) Press "down" key when the ball is falling. It won't work if the ball moves up! You cannot open the gate when the racket touches the corners of the screen.

If your ball gets to the gate, you proceed the the next level. The size of the gate will be reduced in the following levels and will be very small in the last level.

Other stuff:

1) If the ball falls to the eternity, you lose a life.
2) If timer gets to zero, you lose a life.
3) If you lose a life, you start the level from the beginning (with no key).
4) If your ball touches a red stuff, you lose 5 or 10 bucks.
5) If the ball touches a gray stuff, the direcion will be changed to "Random direction".

Getting bucks:

1) To get money your ball should touch a green stuff. In this case you will get 10 or 20 bucks, but the direction of the ball will be altered to 6 degrees!
2) Each new level you get 50 bucks and 1 live.
3) Every 20 timer's points give you 20 bucks, but don't forget that zero timer means you're dead.

Yet other stuff:

To make the game easier:

1) Buy a life.
2) Buy magic. If you have magic, you can press "UP" key and enter a desired direction in degrees. The ball will change its direction! It is very useful if you see that you have not enough time to save the ball.

But: do not spent too much money, it's no good to finish the game with negative money. Only positive ballance can be added to the table of masters.