Advanced Tetric Lite: README
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Please read this file carefully (especially "Installation"
chapter) before installing the program to your computer.


Contents
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  Program information
  Company information
  Description
  Requirements
  Installation
  History
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Technical support


Program information
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Program Archive Name:
  atl.zip
Program Name:
  Advanced Tetric Lite
Program Version:
  3.4
Program Release Date:
  September 20, 2000
Program Description:
  Play great Tetris, Pentix and much more...
Target OS:
  Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000
Software type:
  Shareware ($13.95)


Company information
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Company Name:
  PCbit Software
Contact E-mail Address:
  support@pcbit.com
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.pcbit.com
Contact Postal Address:
  20-128 Topoley str.
  Samara 443115 Russia


Description
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Advanced Tetric Lite is a little more than just Tetris. It also 
includes Pentix, a popular variation of Tetris that's more
complicated and more interesting and two additional variations 
of Tetris: Advanced Tetris, Advanced Pentix.

There are also eight different block sets to play with: blocks, 
numerals, kinetics, dice, wild, planes, plasma and misc.
You can use your own sound effects if you like, but the preset 
sounds will not disturb you while you play. The Background 
picture can also be changed to your liking.

Outstanding graphic and wonderful background music will bring 
you to the world of pleasure and fun, to the world of Advanced 
Tetric Lite!

CNET Says: A must-have for Tetris fans!

Features:

   - 4 variations of Tetris;
   - 8 different Block Sets;
   - Multilingual Interface;
   - Background music;
   - Boss key;
   - Customizable Background picture;
   - 10 Levels;
   - 3 degrees of difficulty (Easy, Normal and Hard);
   - Customizable dimensions of playing area;
   - User-defined sound effects;
   - PC-Speaker sound effects support;
   - Life-time technical support
   - User-friendly interface;
   - Install / Uninstall Support.


Requirements
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Minimum requirements:

  - IBM PC-compatible computer;
  - 8 bit color video card (640x480 resolution mode);
  - Windows 95/98/2000 or Windows NT;
  - 1.0 Mb hard drive space.

Recommended system:

  - 16 bit color video card;
  - sound card with Windows 95/98/NT support.


Installation
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Important! If you've got ATL not from our web page, but from
the other source (magazine CD or some software library), please
visit our home page - you'll probably find the later version;
usually, we release the updates about once a month.

To install ATL, just run the "setup.exe" and follow the
instructions.


History
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See "history.txt" file.


Registration
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See "order.txt" file.


Copyright and license
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See "license.txt" file.


Technical support
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Before you contact us, please do the following:

- Be sure that you're doing everything right. We all make
  mistakes sometimes... Be attentive.
- Look at the Help file: it may already contain an answer to
  your question. A lot of people ask us something like "how
  do I:", though the complete information is there.
- Visit ATL home page in the Internet at
  http://www.pcbit.com/atl/. It's a good chance that you'll
  find the newer version of ATL there. If the serious bug has
  been found in the program, but the new version is not ready yet,
  we make the hot fix for it.

But if you still have a problem with ATL and noting else helps,
please contact technical support at support@pcbit.com.

Please inform us about the following:

  - Advanced Tetric Lite version (from "About" dialog)
  - Advanced Tetic Lite registration key (if you're a registered user)
  - where did you get Advanced Tetric Lite (http or ftp site)
  - Windows 95/98/NT version (including service packs and other
    fixes installed), US or international, OEM or not
  - computer information: CPU type and speed, installed memory
  - description of your problem (as much information as possible
    to retrieve the problem)

Note: you may want to read the "How to Determine the Version of
Windows 95 in Use" article by Microsoft. Use the following URL:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q158/2/38.asp

In order to get the complete computer information (working under
Windows 95), open the Control Panel, click on "System" applet and
press "Print" on "Device Manager" tab.

If you have any comments or suggestions for the next releases,
please don't hesitate to post them to us.