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- *~P I C T R I S V1.4
-
-
- *Author: Kai Lemke
- *Baerendorfstr. 2b
- *46395 Bocholt
- *Germany~
-
- You can activate this helpscreen by
- pressing F1 somewhere in the game.
- After starting ~PICTRIS~ you have to
- choose if you would like to play a
- normal game (choose the first black box)
- or if you want to try one of the ~tasks~
- you see in the other boxes (when playing
- a task you have to remove the small blue
- bricks). You can move around with the
- cursor keys and then press ENTER.
- In the next screen you can choose if you
- play ~PICTRIS~ with ~the normal brickset~
- or with the ~extended brickset~.
- After that you define the level to start
- with and the game begins.
-
-
- *~KEYS (on numeric keypad)~
- 4 : move left
- 6 : move right
- 5 : rotate the current brick
- 2,Space : drop brick
- 8 : activate a ~SWAP~
- Enter : activate ~PICS~
- *~CURSOR KEYS:~
- left : move left
- right : move right
- down : rotate brick
- up : drop brick
- *~OTHER KEYS:~
- g : toggle background in
- gamefield
- a : toggle background at all
- o : toggle background in
- score- and nextwindow
- n : toggle nextwindow on/off
- s : swap mouse buttons
- f : toggle Flash on/off
- m : toggle Sounds on/off
- +/- : increase/decrease level
- F2..F10 : mouse sensivity
- F1 : Help
-
- *~MOUSE:~
- left : move left
- right : move right
- Left MB : drop brick
- Right MB: rotate brick
-
-
- *~EXTRAS:~
-
- If you remove 3 lines at once you get a
- ~SWAP~. A SWAP is activated by key 8 and
- replaces the current brick through the
- one shown in the ~nextbox~.
- If you remove 4 lines at once you get a
- ~PIC~. A PIC is activated by pressing
- enter (all PICs are activated at the
- same time). It removes lines at the
- bottom of the gamefield. Example: you
- have 3 PICs and you press enter. Then
- the 3 lines at the bottom are being
- removed.
-
-
-
- *~HINTS & TRICKS:~
-
- If you have just a few lines of your
- task at the bottom left, try to get ~PICs~
- and activate them, because then the
- lines at the bottom are being removed.
-
- Try to use bricks at the lowest possible
- position if they don't cover free spaces
- there.
-
- If you simply cannot use the current
- brick try to use a ~SWAP~.
-
- Every second level you reach you'll get
- a bonus ~PIC~.
-
- When you solve a task you'll get lots of
- score (the more difficult it is you get
- more), but for example you get 12000
- Points the levelnumber will not increase
- by 3 at once, it will increase by 1 but
- 3 times, so you can see the images of
- the other levels. ~(Remember: It's not a
- failure, it's a feature!)~
- *~COMMAND-LINE PARAMETERS:~
-
- /a(llgray) : the complete background
- is gray
- /g(amefield) : only the gamefield is
- gray
- /o(ther) : score- and nextwindow
- have a gray background
- /s(wap mouse): the mouse buttons are
- being inversed
- /f(lash) : toggle a flash between
- levels on
- /m(usicoff) : toggle sounds off
-
- *~!G O O D L U C K AND M U C H F U N !~
-
- ~Note:~ The author takes no warranty for
- this program in any way. The use of this
- program is at your own risk! You cannot
- blame the author for any damage you get
- when using this program. By using this
- software you recognize this note and
- accept it!
-