Madball
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   By Richard Wilding

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* This program requires dos 5 and Qbasic.exe     *
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* This Program is free and no charge is required.*
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*********To install on your hard drive run the file mball.bat*********
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Madball is a puzzle game for one player.
The idea is to push all the red balls on to the blue crosses by using your white ball.
If at any time You find you have fouled up on this task you can press "R" for a retry
a message will now appear at the bottom of the screen telling you the amount of retries
you have left  press "y" if you wish to retry or any other key to cancel. 
 Controls
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          Z      -    Move your white ball left one space
          X      -    Move your white ball right one space
          P      -    Move Your white ball up
          l      -    Move your ball down
          B      -    Back one place
          R      -    Retry level
When all balls are in place press the space bar the balls will be locked in to place and
you will proceed to the next level.

On loading the program will ask if you want to load your own levels this is for the program 
makeit.bas which allows you to design your own levels. If you haven't created any press n
else type y and then when asked , the name of the file.

Makeit
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     This file is used to create your own levels for use with Madball.
ON loading makeit.bas you will be asked whether or not you wish to edit an old level
this is to change any errors with your levels that you found while playin them.

Type n if you wan't to create a new level.
 You will now be asked which wall type you want to use select through the different patterns using
`,` and `.` space will select the wall.


You will now be taken to the main designing screen with a wall all around the outside.
The word 'wall' should also be shown at the top left hand side.

This is the block that would be place should you press space


Controls
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          Z      - Move left
          X      - Move right
          P      - Move up
          L      - Move down
          ,+.    - Select block(wall,ball,cross,blank)
          
Space will dump a block on your current position . If you have selected ball a ball will be dropped
if you have selected cross a cross will dropped and so on



When you are happy with your level press 's' you will then be able to place the white ball
at it's starting position.
press space when happy with the position now you will asked for a filename call it what you will
for example 'rich'.

To play this level in madball tyoe y when asked whether you wan't to play your own
level. Then enter the name of the file.

Remember the file can be edited again by typing y to edit a file when loading makeit.bas


Hints.
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      Make sure their are the same number of balls as there are crosses
      MAke the level completeable.


                   Have Fun....


