Copyright (c) 1994 by Takeshi Takahashi (HDA00634@niftyserve.or.jp)
Co-produced by Ayako & Miya
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Attention:
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This game is very dangerous for busy person, because addictive.
Introduction:
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The game idea of 'MaciGame' is not original. In 1985, Kuniaki Moribe first made the game named 'Chain Shot!', in which the same color pieces were to be coupled. Some clone games were made after 'Chain Shot!'. In 1992, 'SameGame' was made by Eiji Fukumoto for UNIX under influence of 'Chain Shot!'. Wataru Yoshioka changed the game for PC-9801(NEC) in late 1992. After Yoshioka's 'SameGame' was uploaded to FGALAM LIB 5 of Nifty-JAPAN, the game became very popular. Adding and expanding the playing rule, many clone games, such as 'TumeGame', 'KomeGame', 'MameGame', 'DebaGame', were made for the PC-9801. Now you can play the game both on Windows 3.1 and on Macintosh. I know two versions for Windows and two for Macintosh. 'MaciGame' is one of them.
System Requirement:
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MaciGame will only work under System version 7.1 or later.
How To Get English version:
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You can make English version of MaciGame from Japanese version 'Ç‹Ç´Ç™Çfl v1.60J' using 'MaciGame v1.60E patch'. Double click this patcher and remake the game as indicated in the following instruction. This patcher was made by ResCompare 2.5.3 by Michael Hecht.
How To Play:
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1. You can capture pieces which are of the same color and design. All the pieces that are continuous and of the same color can be captured at once.
2. After the pieces are captured, the pieces above will fall down into place. When there is no piece on a column, the column will be filled with the column directly to the right.
3. The score is based on the number of pieces you capture, square of (captured pieces -2).
Programming Instruction To Make Your Character Piece:
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You can make your own character pieces. There are three formats for character pieces. The height and width of the PICT file must be precise, because the format for the data is determined by them. There are some way to make such kind of PICT file. Photoshop, SuperPaint, Paint It!, etc. can be used. You can find out the format by looking the PICT in the 'MaciGameKoma' folder.
SameGameFormat. H 64 dots. W 160 dots.
SameGameFormat2. H 64 dots. W 192 dots.
MaruSameFormat. H 65 dots. W 256 dots.
In SameGameFormat2, the left-bottom character will be displayed as a wallpaper at the perfect game.
In MaruSameFormat, specified colors are replaced to make five kinds of characters. One line at the top of the PICT is used to determine the replacement colors. A color of the top left dot is replaced by the colors of the next four right dots. The color of the sixth dot is replaced similarly.
(1,1)->(2,1),(3,1),(4,1),(5,1)
(6,1)->(7,1),(8,1),(9,1),(10,1)
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Finally five colors are replaced. The color of the top-right dot of the PICT is used to fill the blank space.
If you know the File Type and the Signature, make them 'PICT' and 'SaMe', respectively. Then you can start the game by double clicking the PICT.
Many character data programs were made by different NIFTYServe users and uploaded to FMACPRO LIB 8 of NIFTY-Serve. Please enjoy these programs.
If you make a character, please upload your data or send it to me. I would be very pleased to see your characters.
Production Notes:
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Although I was very busy at my own job, I programmed this by decreasing my sleeping time and family time. Ayako, my wife, advised me a lot while looking at the characters displayed fully in the monitor. Miya, my daughter only two years old, played alone not to disturb me.
MaciGame is my second program for Mac. It was written in THINK C 7.0.3 (Symantec C++ 7.0.3). There might be many unexpected bugs. I would really appreciate any bug reports / suggestions.
I hope you enjoy the game. A post card from you would be very nice.
Please tell us your impressions of the game. It will encourage my family.
Freeware/Distribution:
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This game is Freeware. You can play and distribute the game without any charge. Please copy the latest version including the documentation file together. Do not spread modified copies. Commercial use is not allowed.
I want to know where my game will be distributed. If it will be included in printed matter, floppy or CD-ROM, I want to know it before its publication. It would be my pleasure to get a copy of it.
The author will not take responsibility for any damage or loss that occurred using this program.
