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AMIGA SizeTris V1.0
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Written by Jure Vrhovnik, 23rd, June 1993
I. INTRODUCTION
SizeTris is yet another multitasking, system friendly, game of the
highly known and popular Tetris. You can play it from Workbench or
CLI/SHELL. The game simply opens a small window, which can be
moved or sized as you like. SizeTris is suggested to being played
while transfering files via modem, archiving, and other jobs that
take time. It has some quite flexible options. You can pause it
simply by deactivating its window, close it whenever you like
during the game, and also a possibility that I find quite original
(I hope nobody has made this before :-) - you can change size of
the window and the playing field changes as well. So you can play
it on a smaller window with very small blocks (1x1 pixel large), or
on a size of the whole screen. However, I recommend you to size
the window to recognizable dimensions (X:Y = about 1:2), otherwise
you'll have some trouble with rotating and imagining objects.
Sizetris should work on all Kickstart versions. It has been tested
on A500 KS1.2, KS1.3, CDTV, A1200 and A4000, where it has worked
fine.
II. INSTRUCTIONS
I am almost perfectly sure that everyone knows how to play Tetris.
However if you don't know yet, here is a brief description. The
game is played on a field of 11x20 blocks large. Different shaped
objects fall from top of the field to the bottom during the game.
You can control these objects by moving them left or right,
rotating them by 90 degrees or dropping them imediately to the
bottom. The idea is to move the objects with strategy in order to
fill one horizontal line of the field. If that happens, the line
is cleared and all blocks above fall one line down. If the objects
reach the top of the field, the game is over. You should try to
fill as many lines as you manage, so that you can remain within the
game.
There are 10 levels. A speed of the falling objects increases with
higher levels. With every 10 lines you fill, the level increases.
Points are also important. You will get more of them if you drop
objects sooner.
III. LOAD THE GAME
If you want to run SizeTris from CLI/SHELL you type:
SizeTris [TOPX leftedge] [TOPY topedge] [SIZEX hor.size]
[SIZEY ver.size] [LEVEL st.level] [FILE scores.file] [NOHELP]
Where:
- leftedge = where on the screen the window's left edge should be
located
- topedge = where the top edge should be
- hor.size = how large should the window be horizontally
- ver.size = and how large vertically
- st.level = the starting level
- scores.file = the full path with name of the file for scores
- NOHELP = if you don't want the helping window should appear
You don't need to type all the arguments. The defaults are:
TOPX150 TOPY100 SIZEX150 SIZEY140 LEVEL0 FILEsizetris.scores
Setting arguments from Workbench is not implemented yet.
IV. COMMANDS
You can play SizeTris with a keyboard. The commands are:
NOTE: Numbers are on the numeric keypad.
- 7 Move an object one block left
- 9 Move an object one block right
- 8 Rotate an object (against clock wise)
- 4 or SPACE Drop an object
- 0 Increase the current level
- . Pause the game ('.' on the numeric keypad!)
- ESCAPE Quit SizeTris
You can also control things on the window:
- Close it when you want to quit
- Deactivate it for pausing the game(just move the mouse pointer
somewhere out of this window and click it)
- Activate it again and press any key for continue with the game
- Drag it - move it wherever you want
- Size it, and thus change the size of the playing field
V. NOTES
This program was written in Wouter von Oortmerssen's AmigaE V2.1b I
thank Wouter who helped me to sneak over the E compiler's bug by
changing my code a bit. He ensured me to consider the next version
of E compiler without that bug.
Also special thanks to Daniel Amor, who was betatesting SizeTris
and gave me very good suggestions and programming tips.
You can freely distribute this program. If you like it or if you
have any neat ideas to improve SizeTris, please send me a message.
Email:
- Internet - Jure.Vrhovnik@ijs.si
- Fidonet - (2:380/102)
BBS: Yet Another BBS - +38 61 551 860
Mail:
Jure Vrhovnik
Langusova 13
61111 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Please, enjoy my program :-) And most of all, enjoy your Amiga!