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- Welcome to re:Tris! (1.01 - LT Edition)
-
- (C)1997-1998 Andy Pickering
-
-
- Are you a fan of *etris? Need a /proper/ challenge? Then
- welcome to re:Tris, a game so fresh it'll pinch ya bottom.
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-
- The Theo Trust
-
- This game is donationware i.e. you donate as much as you think is
- appropriate to The Theo Trust which is set up to provide for the needs
- of a three year old boy with Spinal Muscular Atrophy. He is quite
- severely physically disabled by the condition and needs a lot of
- expensive equipment (cost to date รบ30,000). In the next year or so he
- needs to move house to a bungalow and have that converted to his
- long-term needs. See www.freespace.virhin.net/mark.emms/ for more info.
-
- Address for donations is
-
- The Theo Trust,
- c/o Isobel and Mark Emms
- 8 The Maldens,
- Shipston-on-Stour,
- Warwickshire.
- CV36 4QD
- England
-
- If you are sending a donation from outside the U.K. International money
- orders are best. Hope you enjoy the game and many thanks for your
- donation. Thank you Andy for this excellent game!
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-
- Req Spec
- --------
- 486 ish
- 2mb RAM (woo!)
- SoundBlaster or Compatible for digital effects
- Windows 95
- or
- Windows 3.x
- or
- MS DOS 5
- (Sorry, Windows NT is not supported. Watch out for the new
- improved Java version - coming Spring 2004 - if I have the
- time ;)
-
- Installation
- ------------
- Unzip all files into a directory. If you have a SoundBlaster
- card, make sure the 'SET BLASTER=' statement is set up
- correctly in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- re:Tris requires memory allocated as DPMI. If you are running
- Windows 95 then the game will run 'out-of-the-box'. If you
- are running MSDOS then run the DOS extender program CWSDPMI.EXE
- that comes with this distribution.
-
- Ready? Type 'retris' to start.
-
-
- *** If you find the samples playing slowly, your SB compatible card ***
- *** has been incorrectly detected. Start the game with ***
- *** retris /sb to force 8-bit SB compatible mode. ***
-
-
- Playing the game
- ----------------
- Keys are:-
- Keypad 4 - left
- Keypad 6 - right
- Keypad 2 - drop
- Keypad 5 - rotate
- Escape - quit
-
- Game objective:
-
- Patterns of fruit drop from the top of the screen down to the
- bottom. Arrange the fruit to form solid horizontal lines by
- moving them horizontally and rotating them. Points are scored
- for each line, big points for four lines at the same time.
-
- Problems?
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- Email me at waldorf@clara.net
- Check out http://home.clara.net/waldorf/ for any additions.
-
- Thanks to Shawn Hargreaves for the fantastic Allegro library.