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- C U B U S
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- Concept, Music & Program: Graphics:
- Fred Bayer Oliver Siebert
- Artilleriestr. 21a Schillerstr. 46a
- D-8000 Munich 19 D-8200 Rosenheim
- Germany Germany
-
- Email: bayerf@tuminfo3.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
-
-
- All began about june 1989. Being fascinated by Tetris, we had the idea
- to extend it to three dimensions.
-
- Out first demo version of Cubus was finished in autumn 1989 and we brought
- it to AmigaExpo in Cologne/West-Germany. We showed it to a couple of
- companies developing and trading games. Some of them were fairly
- interested in it and we looked forward publishing Cubus as a commercial
- product.
-
- But afterwards we saw that someone already had had the same idea:
- BlockOut came in December 1989 to Europe. Though BlockOut and Cubus
- differ in quite any detail, the formerly enthusiastic companies were
- chicken-hearted and cancelled the co-operation, as they apprehended
- copyright problems. (Even Mirrorsoft, being the owner of the rights of
- Tetris !)
-
- Now we've decided to publish Cubus as a shareware program for that the
- whole work isn't in vain. We completed the demo version, but of course
- didn't invest too much time. We hope you understand that some parts of
- Cubus aren't as professional as a commercial version.
-
- However, if you enjoy Cubus, you should support us by sending a donation
- of any amount you find appropriate to:
-
- Stadtsparkasse Rosenheim
- Account Id 391 110
- Bank Id 711 50 000
- Germany
-
- (I don't know how to write this correctly in english, but here it is
- in german:)
-
- Kto. Nr 391 110
- Stadtsparkasse Rosenheim
- (BLZ 711 50 000)
-
-
- We also look forward to remarks, critics etc. !
-
-
- A final remark for NTSC-Amigas:
- Cubus is written to take use of the full PAL screen. So, some part of
- the graphics at the bottom won't be visible on a NTSC Amiga. We had
- planned to write a NTSC version, too, but it would take quite a lot of
- effort to adjust the screen positions of all the objects in the game and
- there are other things left in life, too ! :-)
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- How to play Cubus
- =================
-
- You've got to build complete planes out of the pieces falling in the
- playing space. If a certain number of planes is filled, you get to
- the next round (with increased difficulty !)
-
- The game is over when there's no room for another piece.
-
- You can move the piece in the current plane with the joystick (port 2) and
- rotate it about any axis in space with the numeric keypad. As rotating
- a piece is somewhat difficult in the beginning, we included a training mode.
-
- To see, where the falling pieces is, it is shown from the top, too.
- (In the right window)
-
- Rotations work as follows:
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- | |
- about x-axis (---) 7 | 8 | 9
- | |
- -------+-------+-------
- / | |
- about y-axis ( / ) 4 | 5 | 6
- / | |
- -------+-------+-------
- | | |
- about z-axis ( | ) 1 | 2 | 3
- | | |
-
- counter- about clockwise
- clockwise 180░
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-
- Sometimes it'll happen that a piece won't fit at all or that you can't
- rotate it in time. As a last rescue you can zap it (with numeric keypad 0).
- This will only work if you have some ZAPS left (shown at the left bottom)
-
- In the bonus round you earn an extra ZAP for each filled plane.
-
-
- After this there's the puzzle round, where you must build the solid shown
- at the right. The order of the falling pieces is fixed and the puzzle
- always can be solved !
-
- No matter if you solved it or not, you advance to the next level.
- Each of the 9 levels has its own characteristic difficulties that you
- should explore by yourself !
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- Handling of CUBUS:
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- Select Page: (main menu)
-
- F1 Start game
- F2 Show Hiscore
- F3 Demo
- F4 Training mode
- DEL Return to AmigaDOS
-
- During the game:
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- Joystick: Move piece in the current plane
- Fire button: Drop piece fast
- Num. keypad: Rotate piece
- Num. keypad 0: Zap piece
- ESC: Abort game (sorry, no score!)
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- Hiscore page (if you are qualified):
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- Enter your name (max. 4 letters and digits) and press ENTER
- Use BACKSPACE to correct typing errors.
-
- ESC: Return to select page
-
- Demo:
-
- Fire button: Show next part of text
- ESC: Return to select page
-
- Training mode:
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- Num. keypad : Rotate piece
- Num. keypad 0 : Select next piece
- ESC: Return to select page
-
- Press F10 anytime to toggle music on/off.
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- Implementation Remarks
- ======================
-
-
- CUBUS has benn written entirely in C (SAS/5.10).
- (No assembler parts were necessary :-))
- It's fully able of multitasking (CUBUS itself is composed of 4 seperate tasks),
- but it won't let you communicate with other tasks, while CUBUS is running.
- Though it takes over the machine while it's running, it won't trash anything
- else in the system.
-
- We have tested it on an A500 without any expansion and on an A3000
- (there were a few bugs which I discovered, when I upgraded to this wonderful
- machine !)
- It seems to work under any configuration from A500/Kickstart 1.2
- to A3000/Kickstart 2.0, so it should also work on YOUR amiga !!!!
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- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- ! Cubus is a shareware program. It may be copied and distributed in public !
- ! domain libraries, but mustn't be distributed commercially. !
- ! Modifications of the program and its data files are not allowed. !
- ! Any copy of Cubus must include this DOC-file. !
- ! !
- ! CUBUS consists of the files !
- ! !
- ! Cubus -- the program itself !
- ! Cubus.info -- Icon to run Cubus from WB !
- ! CubusBobs -- graphics !
- ! CubusFont -- graphics (not an AMIGA font !) !
- ! CubusHiScores -- you may delete this file to reset HiScore !
- ! CubusInstruments -- instruments for background music !
- ! CubusSelect -- graphics for menu screen !
- ! CubusSound -- some sound effects !
- ! CubusTitle -- screen after loading !
- ! Cubus.doc.english -- this file !
- ! Cubus.doc.german -- german translation of this file !
- ! !
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Have fun !
- (and excuse our bad english!)
- Oliver Fred
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