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^C^1Calc-Man
^Cby
^CDaniel Tobias and Joel Ellis Rea
Most of us are big fans of integrated software, but this is ridiculous: CALC-
MAN is a Pac-Man-like maze game played across a typical spreadsheet work screen.
Instead of a Pac-Man character, you maneuver a cursor around the screen,
clearing out the rows and columns of figures. (The arrow keys on the numeric
keypad control the cursor.)
Renegade data cells rather than ghosts bar your way -- colliding with one
costs you a life. But as in the original Pac-Man, you can turn the tables on
your pursuers by eating a "power pill" -- in this case, the "50s" that appear in
the corners of the spreadsheet. Once you eat a power pill, the hunter becomes
the hunted. Touching one of the renegade cells with the cursor wins you bonus
points. Just don't get caught up in the excitement of the chase: the effects of
the pill wear off after a few seconds.
Each time a screen is cleared, CALC-MAN takes you to another level. And since
CALC-MAN is probably the one spreadsheet you won't mind spending time with,
we've made sure that you won't run out of levels to conquer.
Happy calculating.
To run this program outside BEST OF BIG BLUE DISK, type: ^1CALC-MAN^0.
DISK FILES THIS PROGRAM USES:
^FCALC-MAN.EXE
^FBRUN30.EXE
^FRETURN30.EXE
^FCALC-MAN.SCO