Copyright: Copyright (c) 1999-2003, AimGames


Free Tetrix 1.06.1

Copyright © 1999-2003, AimGames.

All Rights Reserved.

Free Tetrix is a highly advanced Tetris clone featuring advanced game play and great design. Game interface features cool graphics (chiseled game screen, various block looks), awesome background sounds (high quality sound effects and delightful MIDI musical scores organized in playlists) and an ever lasting gaming action (with ability to choose starting level, rotation directions, field color and random filling). Free Tetrix is a must have for Tetris fans! Enjoy Free Tetrix!

With all respects “AimGames”.


“Game” menu

Click on any menu item below, to view a description.

In the Game menu you may start new game via choosing command New or quit game via choosing Exit.


“Options” menu

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Options menu consists of the following points:

Music Box... - calls a special form where you define a music playlist and its playback options.

Background color - set a background color of game field.

Start Level - set a level at which you want to start new game.

Blocks Look - select block look you like from ten offered alternates.

Rotate - direction of block rotation: left or right.

Music - on/off music accompaniment.

Sound - on/off sound effects.

Fill field at start - when checked, every new game has some randomly prefiled field.

Languages - interface language. 13 languages are available.

High Scores... - displays a chart for 10 best players.


“Help” menu

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This menu includes the following items:

Contents - to call this help.

About - provides you with the information about the current version of Free Tetrix.

Our games - contains a list of games and activates your Internet-browser to visit WWW site of selected game.

Send mail - calls your E-mail client to mail us (we will be grateful to receive your reports about all bugs, your suggestions and proposals). Also, you can use this item for required feedback and support.


How to play

The aim of the game is standard: maximize your score in putting together falling blocks into lines.

Every assembled line vanishes increasing your score. Each ten constructed lines upgrade game to next level with faster block speed.

Use following keys to manipulate by falling blocks:

Left arrow	to move block left
Right arrow	to move block right
Up arrow	to rotate block
Down arrow	to shift block down
Space bar	to drop block

At the right side you see the best player result, score counter, the hintbox showing next block to be dropped, quantity of constructed lines, the difficulty level and “Start” button. This button used for fast game start without accessing of Game menu. During playing game this button labeled as “Pause”, so you may click it and pause the game.


Technical support

If you have any problem, question or so, please mail us: support@aimgames.com. We will be happy to provide you with the answers on all your questions. We are also interested in all your inmpressions, wishes and bug reports. Information about the new versions you may found in our WWW site: http://www.aimgames.com.


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User defined language

You can translate the game's text into your own language.

To do this, copy the file english.lng in game's directory with a new name, YourLanguage.lng.  The new file should also remain in the game's directory.  Then translate each line into your language.  We’ll add new languages into game ourselves.

Tips to translators:

1. Line 52 is a charset number.  You need to change it if you use national symbols.  See table:

128	Japanese shift-jis characters.

129	Korean characters (Wansung).

130	Korean characters (Johab).

134	Simplified Chinese characters (mainland China).

136	Traditional Chinese characters (Taiwanese).

161	Greek characters.

162	Turkish characters.

163	Vietnamese characters.

177	Hebrew characters.

178	Arabic characters.

186	Baltic characters.

204	Cyrillic characters.

222	Thai characters.

238	Includes diacritical marks for eastern European countries.

255	Depends on the codepage of the operating system.

2. An ampersand specifies that the next character is a hotkey.  Such characters will appear underlined. Ampersands won't show in game.

For official language support of Free Tetrix, send your translated language file YourLanguage.lng to support@aimgames.com (languages that are not officially supported yet, of course, please).


Special thanks

We thanks Michael P. Sirotkin (sirmike@thai.msk.ru) for nice music themes composing.

Also, we thanks our translators:

•	French: David Faye, Pierre Montel

•	German: Daniel Hoppe

•	Hungarian: Jozsef Herczeg

•	Italian: Dario De Judicibus

•	Latvian: Valentins Mucenieks

•	Slovene: Grega Fajdiga

•	Spanish: Abel Ezquerro Gonzalez

•	Swedish: Leif Larsson

•	Turkish: Ali Sarioglu

•	Hrvatski: Josip Sinkovic

•	Szech: Zdeno Najbert

•	Serbian: Kristijan Mitrovic

•	Ukrainian: Andriy Slezenko

•	Macedonian: Aleksandar Savic

•	Catalan: Joan Bosch

•	Dutch: J. C. Barnhoorn