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- AMIGA SizeTris V1.0
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- Written by Jure Vrhovnik, 23rd, June 1993
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- I. INTRODUCTION
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- 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.
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- II. INSTRUCTIONS
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- 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.
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- III. LOAD THE GAME
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- 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
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- You don't need to type all the arguments. The defaults are:
- TOPX150 TOPY100 SIZEX150 SIZEY140 LEVEL0 FILEsizetris.scores
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- Setting arguments from Workbench is not implemented yet.
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- IV. COMMANDS
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- 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
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- 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
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- V. NOTES
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- 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.
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- Email:
- - Internet - Jure.Vrhovnik@ijs.si
- - Fidonet - (2:380/102)
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- BBS: Yet Another BBS - +38 61 551 860
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- Mail:
- Jure Vrhovnik
- Langusova 13
- 61111 Ljubljana
- Slovenia
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- Please, enjoy my program :-) And most of all, enjoy your Amiga!
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