Pentix Unlimited, version 1.31, 1998. 18.05.98.

Pentix Unlimited (PU) - very advanced pentix game. 
For those who enjoy tetris/pentix playing.

System requirements:
286+ 
DOS+

Pentix Unlimited is freeware.

If you like playing tetris/pentix, you may take place in tetris championship
which is done every month by e-mail. To learn more about championships read 
champ.txt or go to http://dix.dubna.ru/jb/pentun/champ

Files:
pentun.exe - pentix unlimited game
pentun.fig - figures file for pentun
pentun.plr - PU players data file          (can be deleted)
pentun.res - PU results data file          (can be deleted)
pentun.log - PU logs data file             (can be deleted)
pentun.sta - PU statistic data file        (can be deleted)
		note: if you delete .log file, also delete .sta file.

Playing game:
There are 6 playing modes:
1. Practice - If you want to practice or experiment, play in this mode.
2. Score game - Standart score game.
3. Speed game - Remove 20 lines as fast as you can.
4. Free Style - Free playing. Play for best speed, score or top speed.
5. Free Style (C) - Free style continued. Auto saves playfield at exit.
6. Champ round - Play as good as you can for 100 figures.

Features:

1. Playfield is not limited to 20-30 lines as in most tetrises/pentixs.
In PU playfield can be 400 lines! So game doesn't end when you fill entire
playfield, it just scrolls down.

2. There are 4 new keys: mirror figure, exchange with next figure,
drop and move left, drop and move right.

3. Real-time graphs for highest non-empty line, speed and peak speed.

4. Playback feature. When you finish playing - hit backspace to see how you
were playing. Did you ever see how do you play? Also, you can view any game
at any time, because all games are logged and saved.

5. Practice mode. Results do not save here.

6. Advanced statistic. PU counts almost everything. Discover a lot of
information about yourself and your playing.

7. Different difficuly levels. Easy/Normal/Hard/Random or you can set your own
difficulty. Each figure has it's own chance to fall. Decrease fall chance for
hard figures and game will be easier.

8. Build-in option for tetris championship. Register and send your champ
results by e-mail. (see champ.txt for details)

9. You can change size of playfield. -,+ keys will do it.

10. Custom color setup. Setup your favorite colors and enjoy playing!

11. Playfield map.


Keys:
almost everywhere: F1 or F10 - help.

Keys in main menu:

UP/DOWN - select play mode
LEFT/RIGHT - select item to change (level, difficulty, fill up, playfield size)
PGUP/PGDOWN - change item. (to change Y_Low use HOME/END)
V - view all results & games
T - advanced top results screen
C - championship manager
F2 - change player
F5 - view figure statistics and set your own difficulty here


Keys before playing:

C   - enter into color setup mode, where: 
        1,2 - change border & text color
        3,4 - change figure color
        5,6 - change graphs color
        7,8 - change background color
        9,0 - change playfield color
[,] - decrease/increase playfield fill rate by 5%. default = 50% 
{,} - change level
-,+ - change playfield size
A   - on/off advanced statistic
G   - on/off graphs
H   - on/off help
F   - full/part graph. LEFT,RIGHT - scroll graph in part mode.
M   - on/off map
S   - on/off statistic
SPACE, ENTER - start playing
Backspace - view replay (playback)

F2  - save last game to a file
use pentun /L savedgame    to view this game.


Keys while playing:

Figure movement:
HOME, 4, J  - move left
UP, 8, K    - rotate
PGUP, 6, L  - move right
DOWN, 2     - move down
SPACE, 0    - drop
END, 1      - drop and move left
PGDN, 3     - drop and move right
F1, Q, W, Z - mirror figure
F2, E, R, X - exchange with next figure

A   - on/off advanced statistic
C   - click on/off
D   - drop help
G   - on/off graphs
H   - on/off help
M   - on/off map
S   - on/off statistic
R   - on/off GO FOR RESULT mode
<,> - change GO FOR RESULT mode appearing time
{,} - change level
-,+ - change playfield size

Keys while viewing log (playback)
F   - on/off fast mode. default is off.
-,+ - in fast mode decrease/increase showing speed by 1
/,* - by 5
to enter into super-fast mode hit P


Words and terms description:
Speed   - number that shows how many lines per minute do you remove
T.Speed - top speed
P.Speed - peak speed. speed you have for last 20 lines
Rating  - how many time you spent to remove 20 lines
Time/F  - average time (in secods) you spend to drop 1 figure
Score/L - score per line
Figs/L  - number of figures per line
Acts/F  - number of actions per figure
Actions - summ of all figure moves/rotates/mirrors/exchanges

GO FOR RESULT - special mode in 5 and 6 game modes, that appears randomly
after appearing time passed. This mode count time for next 20 lines.
May be used as accelerator.


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Pentix Unlimited idea and realization by Yuri Balagurov, 1998.
Feel free to e-mail: jbal@nf.jinr.ru

Visit PU WWW site: http://dix.dubna.ru/jb/pentun
Special thanks for Ian Patterson for New Zealand for original ideas
and beta testing.