IMPORTANT MESSAGE
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Please Note.
             
 That this is not the Original Documents for this Version of MegaBall3.AGA 
 but is in fact,the Documents for MegaBall version 2.1.
 The original Doc's for this game were corrupted when this file was 
 un-arc onto floppy.We apologise for this inconvenient but you should
 be able to contact ED Mackey from the Address's listed below if you
 should want to register with him for future update's of his excellent
 game. 
 
 
                                                                                                                                     
                      >> HOW TO PLAY THE GAME: <<

OK.  You all know how to play an Arkanoid clone, right?  I don't have to
explain that you have a paddle and a ball and you must bounce the ball
into some blocks to score points, right?  And I certainly don't need to
mention that if you let the ball miss the paddle and drop off the screen
you will die, right?  And I also don't need to explain about how little
bonuses can drift down from the blocks and if they touch your paddle they
can do anything from giving you free lives to blowing you up, depending
on the little pictures on the bonuses as they are drifting down, right?
Good.  I was afraid I'd have to put a lengthy explanation here!

  >> MOUSE CONTROLS DURING THE GAME: <<

Let's do this C= style!:
If you move the mouse left, your paddle moves left!
If you move the mouse right, your paddle moves right!!
For pin-out diagrams of the mouse port, check the Technical Reference
Section!!
Long live C= Instruction Manuals!!

By the way, sometimes the ball "sticks" to your paddle.  A small blue
force-field appears to hold the ball in place.  You can press a mouse
button to release it.  Also, if you get Lasers (one of the bonuses),
you use the mouse button to fire them.  You may have Lasers and Catch
at the same time, and in this case, the same press of the mouse button
can both fire the lasers and release the ball.  Both the left and right
mouse buttons have the same effect.   - -
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Awesome!  Crank it up!!  :-)

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Various methods of communicating with me:
  With InterNet:  elm4@lehigh.edu  (this account closes June '93)

  By BBS:  Call Somerton Telecomm BBS, near Philly, PA, (215) 464-6775.

  By US mail:  Ed Mackey     (this box will be valid for many years)
               P.O. Box 475
               Wayne, PA 19087
                   USA

  In previous versions, I also had my address at Lehigh University here.
  However, I do NOT want people to send stuff to that address while I
  might be on Summer vacation or Christmas break or whatever, so I
  took it out.

My brother, Al Mackey, did the music and most of the graphics for
this game.  He is now going to Rider college, and can be reached
via email:
    Internet:  MACKEY@enigma.rider.edu
    Bitnet:    MACKEY@RIDER.BITNET
Of course he also reads most of the letters I get in the PO Box.

  >> MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUCTION IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD: <<

                  Have fun!

                         --Ed.