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Version 10.0
Copyright (c) 1991 Graham Cluley. All Rights Reserved.
Documentation By Dogg
If you haven't seen BLOX before, or a game fairly similar to it (but not
nearly as amazing) called Te**is, you are either:
1. Dead
2. Amazingly close to being dead
3. Living in Peterborough, and probably an estate agent
Okay, for those of you who don't know, the idea of the game is that there
are these blox, and they're falling from the top of the screen, to,
amazingly enough, the bottom of the screen, where they make an untidy pile.
What YOU have to do is stop them from reaching the top by organising them
into neat horizontal lines which then disappear!! Don't ask me where they go
to....
There are several different shaped blox (in a variety of attractive and nice
colours), so it's not that easy, but you can twist them round to fit into
gaps and things. The game gets faster as you go along.
At the start of the game, there's a thing that allows you to select what
sort of computer you're using, to allow for the differences in speed of
PCs. If the game goes too fast, select SUPA DUPA AT.
AMAZING FEATURES OF BLOX THAT MAKE IT MORE AMAZING THAN, ER....SOMETHING
VERY AMAZING...
* Inedible SOUND WOGGLE!! So you don't annoy your neighbours!
* Variable speed thingy to make the game faster or slower!
* Pause key, for when it's time to feed the cat / have dinner / play
JACARANDA JIM (another amazing game by the same author!!!)
* Choice of mono or colour Blox for people who couldn't afford a colour
licence for their monitors!
* 'Next Block' thing shows what sort of block will appear next, lets you
plan ahead!
* No CFCs or artificial preservatives. Ideal for vegetarians.
* Hi Score table complete with FREE advert for JACARANDA JIM!!
* Automatic testing for mono monitor. Some mono monitors cannot produce
a 40 column display and will "hang-up" - BLOX automatically senses this
and reverts to the standard eighty columns! If you like you can force
80 columns by typing BLOX 80 at the system prompt. Sometimes it is a
good idea to type MODE 40 before trying this.
* Most amazing of all....BOSS key for people playing Blox in places they
shouldn't be playing Blox!! Simply press ESC and the game metamorphoses
into a cunning spreadsheet thing! Better than the average Boss key, it
actually allows you to input things. Pressing TAB returns you to the
game in the same place as you left it.
If you like the game, send some money to Gray (and some to me if you like)
to the address shown at the end of the game, because he's a poor starving
computer programmer, and he really deserves some money. He might even send
you a copy of JACARANDA JIM!!
Oh by the way, my name's Dogg, thank you very much and goodnight.