PacDude Monster Maze

PacDude intro screen #1 PacDude intro screen #2
PacDude Monster Maze intro screens.
PacDude Monster Maze game screen

PacDude Monster Maze game screen.

PacDude Monster Maze is a clone of the arcade game Pac-Mania, which is a 3 dimensional version of the arcade smash Pac-Man. It features a much larger maze, more monsters, 3-dimensional play, background music, and hardware vertical and horizontal scrolling. It also adds the ability to jump over the ghosts (although, in later levels, the ghosts gain this ability too). It is also one of the few games for the Coco 3 that required 512K to run. This was one of the most impressive Coco 3 games out at the time of it's release.

It should be noted that Brian has also released the source code for the game, which you can find below. This has now been updated to the 2.1A version, which included some changes to the joystick read routines and some other fixes. To be specific, from Brian himself:
I made a tweak to the joystick sampling code. It might have made it less glitchy.
Details:
Some folks have had issues with PDMM on XRoar, and this might be the reason. It looks like I calculated incorrect the values to pass to the PIA, which I then corrected in version 2.1.
Original X range: 0..59 -- 0 to (63 - 4)
Corrected X range: 6..57 -- 6 to (63 - 6)


Original Y range: 2..55 -- 2 to (63 - 8)
Corrected Y range: 8..55 -- 8 to (63 - 8)
I think my original intention was that any X axis value within 4 of the limit would indicate a move in the X direction. For the Y axis, I made the limit different to account for the non-45 degree angle of the game maze.
The actual values I passed to the PIA were bogus for some reason, and so they got corrected in version 2.1. I also tweaked the X axis range a bit to be more forgiving.

Title: PacDude Monster Maze

Author: Brian O'Neill (music by Chris Spry)

Publisher: Brian O'Neill

Released: 1992

Requires: Color Computer 3 only, 512K RAM, joystick.

Download PACDUDE2.ZIP (contains PACDUDE2.DSK). LOADM"PAC2" to run. This is the latest Version 2.1A.

Download the source code (PacDude3D_SRC.zip), Version 2.1A.

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