Polytris is a game with falling polyomino blocks, 1 to 5 connected square blocks. The objective is to stay in the game by removing rows. Rows will be removed when they are filled without holes. Polytris is more challenging because it has 29 kinds of blocks, bombs, weights and water balloons. You can adjust the difficulty of the game by setting preferences.
Poly-Series games are distributed as shareware. If you want to use them beyond the trial period, you need to pay shareware fee. All Poly-Series are available in Mac and MS-DOS format. Check out the S. T. Han's Shareware page on WWW at:
http://www.kagi.com/authors/sth/default.html
Now, you can pay shareware fee with your credit card, a wide variety of cash from different countries and checks in US Dollar. You will recieve a diskette with the latest version and other games to try when you register. Poly-Series games have the following pricing.
Single user licenses, $10 per user per game. A Site License costs $100 (equal to 10 single users) and covers all computers in one site(e.g. computer lab). One big advantage of a Site License is that you do not need to keep track of how many people at your site are using the software. A World-Wide License costs $1000 and it covers all locations for your organization on the planet earth.
Single user licenses cost $88 for all(11+) the Poly-Series games.
Paying for Poly-Series games is fairly simple. Open the Register program that accompanies the game. Enter your name, your email address, and the number of single user licenses you desire for each program you wish to purchase (or Site or Word-Wide licenses). Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi Shareware. More specifics on the Register program to follow. Kagi Shareware handles the payment processing.
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the data to Kagi Shareware. Their e-mail address is shareware@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via e-mail are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an e-mail acknowledgement when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgement.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
Kagi Shareware
1442-A Walnut Street #392-AH
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi Shareware cannot accept checks in other currencies, the conversion rate for non-USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just not practical. If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that they must include a copy of the form with their payment.
Kagi Shareware can not invoice your company, you need to act on author's behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end.
Please do not fax or e-mail payment forms that indicate Cash, Check or Invoice as the payment method. As far as we know, there is still no technology to transfer physical objects via fax or e-mail and without the payment, the form cannot be processed.
Payments send via postal mail take time to reach Kagi Shareware and then up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct e-mail address, you will hear from Kagi Shareware when the form is processed. Please note that Kagi Shareware only notify you that the payment is recieved. You will recieve the registered version by postal mail directly from the author.
Poly-Series games were tested on color and B/W Macs under System 6 and 7 with 32 bit mode on and off. They should have no problem running on any Mac from MacPlus to PowerPC Macs. Although all the inits (system extensions) and cdevs (control pannel documents) provided with Apple's original system softwares seem to be compatible with the programs, some inits and cdevs may cause the problem.
If the game crashes your machine, please turn off as many inits and cdevs as possible. If you use system 7, all the system extensions can be disabled by holding down shift key until you see the welcome message when you turn on your Mac. If you cannot run Poly-Series games, please send the detailed system description to the author.
You may contact with the author by e-mail (STH@kagi.com). Any comment or bug reports would be appreciated. You may copy the unregistered version freely without any modification, but all rights are reserved by the author. You may not sell or distribute for profit without author's permission. If you paid more than nominal distribution cost for unregistered copy, please contact the author.
