Version 1.3 — A PacMan clone for OS/2 and ArcaOS.
Originally written in 1995 by Markellos J. Diorinos. This version is an Open Watcom port with enhanced menus, keyboard shortcuts, Unicode text in 12 languages (UTF-8 language files, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian and Greek), online help, and settings persistence.
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+N | New Game |
| Ctrl+P | Pause / Resume |
| Ctrl+Q | Quit current game |
| Ctrl+X | Exit application |
| Ctrl+B | Background Run toggle |
| Ctrl+F | Frame Controls (borderless) toggle |
| Arrow keys | Move MakMan (default) |
The keys and the joystick are set in Options - Key Mapping..., a window with two pages:
- Keyboard - click a box and press the key for each direction.
- Joystick - tick Enable Joystick, choose Joystick A or B, click a box and press a joystick button or push the stick (Delete clears); Calibrate A / Calibrate B set the centre of the stick.
The keyboard and the joystick work together. The mapping is saved in MAKMAN.INI; the old
Options - Controls submenu is gone.
Requires Open Watcom C/C++ and the OS/2 Toolkit 4.5 headers.
compile-wat.cmd
Or directly:
wmake -f makefile.wat all
Output is placed in bin\makman.exe, the help files in bin\help and the language files in bin\lang.
src/ Source files (.cpp, .hpp, .h, .rc, .dlg, .def, .ico)
bin/ Build output (.exe, .obj, .res, .map)
doc/ Documentation (Readme.txt, Changelog.txt, License.txt)
help/ IPF help sources, one per language (built to bin/help/*.hlp)
lang/ UTF-8 language files (copied next to makman.exe in bin/lang)
tiles/ Classic tile graphics
newtiles/ Fufitos tile graphics
3dtiles/ 3D Look tile graphics
sounds/ Game audio (WAV, MID)
legacy/ Original unmodified source kept for reference
makefile.wat Open Watcom build file
compile-wat.cmd OS/2 CMD build script
1.3 (2026-10-12) — Options - Key Mapping... (keyboard keys and joystick A/B with buttons, stick directions and calibration; replaces the Controls submenu); MMPM/2 is loaded at run time, so the game starts and runs without sound when MMIO.DLL cannot start (it used to quit at once, before any window).
1.2.1 (2026-10-08) — text is drawn as UTF-8 through GPI code page 1208; the UTF-8 to UCS-2 conversion is gone (same layer as PMUniText 0.3).
1.2 (2026-10-07) — Unicode support: UTF-8 language files in lang/ (12 languages), menus and
dialogs drawn with GPI code page 1200 where the code page falls short, translated high score entry
(names stored as UTF-8), mnemonics and accelerator text for all menus, -plainmenus /
-unicodemenus switches; fixed an uninitialised ghost animation phase that could trap the game.
1.1 (2026-09-10) — Open Watcom port; Game/Options/Help menu structure; Ctrl+N/P/Q/X/B/F accelerators; Pause Game and Quit Game items; 6-language runtime support; Language submenu; Save Settings on Exit; Background Run; Frame Controls toggle; online help in 6 languages; BLDLEVEL; STACKSIZE fixed to 65536.
1.00 (1995) — Original release by Markellos J. Diorinos. PacMan clone for OS/2 using DIVE and GPI rendering, MMPM/2 sound, joystick support, three tile sets, high score table.
GNU GPL v3 — see doc/License.txt
- Markellos J. Diorinos (original author, 1995)
- Martin Iturbide (Open Watcom port, 2026)