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!Help file for Maze
By Lee McGinty (c) May 1991
This is a game that runs entirely on the icon bar. It is very useful if
you are working in an environment where you shouldn't be playing games (such
as at school) as it is not immediately apparent what you are doing.
Many thanks to the Lord of Entropy, whose Icon Bar Ball game gave me the
inspiration for this and also to William Gould for reinforcing the idea.
This is a very tricky icon bar maze game.
Using the icon bar menu, set up the maze as you like it. Difficulty refers
to how much of the maze you can see at a time. By the way an 'impossible'
maze on very hard difficulty is about 2 times the size of a normal mode 12
screen and you have to complete it from within a box 34x17 pixels. Rather
you than me!
Click on the icon bar icon with select to create the maze. The hourglass
will appear as the creation occurs. Note that an 'impossible' maze takes
a LONG time to create. Then you can play it.
Move your red dot around by moving the pointer. Putting it in the left hand
side of the screen moves you left etc. Diagonal movement is possible.
The idea of the game is to find the green square (assuming an unchanged
palette) and , well that's it basically.
It is not possible to change the size and difficulty of a maze whilst playing
it, you will have to 'give up' first.
If you wish to write to me:
Lee McGinty,
41, Alpine Road,
Ventnor,
Isle of Wight,
PO38 1BX
P.S. The alogrithm for drawing a random maze was obtained from BBC Acorn User
Magazine. Thanks to David Lawrence.
P.P.S. The position of the green square is completely random so it is
possible that it will be only a few locations away from the start. It is
really annoying when you have waited ages for it to draw a very big
maze. Tough!