With contributions by Andy Sommerville (2007)
Github project page: https://github.com/greyblue9/pacman-python
Thank you for your interest in my tribute to everyone's favorite Pac-Man games of yesteryear! Pacman features 12 colorful levels of varying sizes, bouncing fruit, A* path-finding ghosts, and, more recently, cross-platform support, joystick support, and a high score list. This was the first large-scale project I ever developed in Python, so the source is not the cleanest, but I would love to have your contributions! Feel free to slice and dice it up however you like and redistribute it; I just ask that you give me some credit and let me know about it, so I can enjoy your creation too! Have fun!
Pac-man requires Python 2.x (tested on versions 2.6 and 2.7), and the corresponding version of the Pygame library, freely available online. Make sure you install the matching (32- or 64-bit) version of Pygame as your Python installation, and the one compatible with your Python version number. The last I checked, only 32-bit binaries of Pygame for Windows were hosted on the official website, but there was a link to download unofficial 64-bit binaries of Pygame as well.
To run the maze editor in Windows 7 or 8 (64-bit), perform the following steps depending on your version of Windows:
Copy RICHTX32.OCX and COMDLG32.OCX in the libraries/ folder to your Windows SysWOW64 directory for 64-bit Windows, or System32 if you are running 32-bit Windows. The paths are typically "C:\Windows\SysWOW64" and "C:\Windows\System32" respectively. Second, open command prompt as Administrator (click Start, type "cmd" and right-click > Run as Administrator) and run the following commands, making sure to replace the path with the actual path to SysWOW64 (or System32 for 32-bit) on your machine:
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64-bit Windows
regsvr32 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\RICHTX32.OCX regsvr32 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\COMDLG32.OCX
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32-bit Windows
regsvr32 C:\Windows\System32\RICHTX32.OCX regsvr32 C:\Windows\System32\COMDLG32.OCX
Both commands should say the DLL was registered successfully. After that, run pacman/maze_editor.exe and you should be good to go.
I haven't tested it recently, but as far as I remember, the maze editor will work if you either copy the .OCX files to System32, or just copy them to the pacman/ folder (the same folder as maze_editor.exe). I never ran the regsvr32 command on these versions of Windows, so I don't think it is necessary. Please contact me if you know!
Haven't tested this combination, but please let me know if you have, along with any extra steps you had to take, and I will make the changes to this document.