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Introduction
This is a nice little game with color graphics and sound for your Unix system with color X11, DOS or Windows. You need an 8-bit color display or better. It will not work on black&white systems, and maybe not on gray scale systems.

It was first released as "Mindbender" in the year 1989 on the Amiga (with ports on other computer systems) and is in fact a clone of the C64 game "Deflektor". As the Amiga is a bit outdated now, I decided to port it to Unix systems and later to DOS and Windows.

Getting started
Just 'cd' to the 'mirrormagic' directory and type 'mirrormagic'! This works only on Linux boxes, because the included binary was compiled for Linux systems. If you have another Unix system like HPUX, NetBSD or SUN, you first have to type 'make' to compile it. This may be needed on Linux systems, too, if you have an older system (kernel, libraries, ...).

The Menues
You can see eight blue circles on the left side of the eight green menu texts; these are buttons to activate the menu commands by simply clicking on them with the left mouse button. The button will then change to red.

The menu 'name'
First, you have to choose a player name. Just click on the button for the 'name' menu. The screen will change and offer 10 player names to choose from. At the first time, they will all be 'no name'. Choose the last entry 'enter new name', choose one of the 'no name' fields and type in your name. It will then appear as the actual player's name on the main screen.

If you choose a certain special name, you will be in a cheat mode where you can choose all levels without playing the lower levels before... :)

The menu 'level'
If you have played some levels of this game, you can choose the already played levels at any time, but you cannot choose the higher levels. This means, you can choose levels from level 0 to the highest level that you have ever won. This is known as your 'handicap'.

To choose a level, click on the two buttons on the left or right hand of the level field. If you click on the button left of the text 'level', the level field will switch to '50' or, if >=50, back to '00'. This is because the levels '50' to '99' are empty, but you can build your own mirrormagic levels with the built-in level editor.

Hall of fame
Click on this button to see a list of the best players of this level. Click again to go back to the main menu.

Level creator
This brings you to the level editor, if you have switched to level 50 or higher, which are empty and can be filled by yourself. See below.

Info screen
This screen shows you all elements which appear in the 50 levels. Click again to go back to the main menu.

Start game
This will start the game.

Setup
To change some things in the game, use the setup menu. You can enable/disable "Sound" (enables/disables _all_ sounds in the game), "Sound loops" (only allowed on Linux systems with VoxWare[tm] sound driver; don't worry if you never heard of it -- it's the name of the standard Linux sound driver), "Game music" (can always be enabled on very fast systems [exception: you don't like it], on slower systems it will take some percent of CPU time which will slow things down a bit) and "Toons", which will forbid/ permit the little animated toons.

"Exit" quits the setup menu without saving the changes, "Save and exit" will save and then return to the main menu.

MirrorMagicX - Mirror Magic II for for XBox v1 Port
This is a port of the game Mirror Magic. If you like puzzle games like I do, then you'll love this game.

Super thanks to Lantus for his SDL-XBox libraries!

Usage Notes :
Use an XBox controller plugged into port #1

Left Analog Stick - Moves mouse
A - Mouse Button 1
B - Mouse Button 2
START - Keyboard ENTER key (Select menu items)
BACK - Keyboard ESCAPE key
Y - Turn cheats on/off
DPAD - Select menu items
The object of the game is to first guide the magic wand energy and destroy the spheres and/or other objects. Then you must guide the magic wand energy to the exit door.

You can put your own MOD music in the "music" dir.