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SUPER RETRISS PRO 1.0
Not Just Another TETRIS <tm> Game
Manual of Operations
Document Revision 2
COPYRIGHT 1993,1994 by
Rogelio Bernal
All Rights Reserved
Rogelio Bernal
75 St. Alphonsus St. Box #1903
Boston, MA 02120
bernal@fas.harvard.edu
bernal@acad.wit.edu
Originally written using Turbo C++ V1.0
Latest version written using Borland C++ 3.1 and Turbo
Assembler 3.1
All terms mentioned in this document that are known to be
trademarks are listed below. In addition, terms suspected
of being trademarks have been capitalized. The author
cannot attest to the accuracy of this information. The
use of a term in this document should not be regarded as
affecting the validity of any trademark.
· Borland C/C++ is a registered trademark of Borland
International, Inc.
· CT-VOICE.DRV is copyright c by Creative Labs, Inc.
· MODOBJ is copyright c by Mark J. Cox
· MS DOS is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.
· OS/2 is a registered trademark of IBM Corp.
· Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corp.
· QEMM is a registered trademark of QuarterDeck
· SBFMDRV.COM is copyright c by Creative Labs, Inc.
· SoftWindows is a registered trademark of Insignia
Solutions
· Sound Blaster is a registered trademark of Creative
Labs, Inc.
· Sound Blaster Pro is a registered trademark of Creative
Labs, Inc.
· Super Tetris is a registered trademark of Spectrum
Holobyte.
· Tetris is a registered trademark of Spectrum Holobyte.
· Turbo Assembler is a registered trademark of Borland
International, Inc.
· Turbo C++ is a registered trademark of Borland
International, Inc.
This document is Copyright 1994 by Rogelio Bernal. All
rights are reserved.
Modification (other than document formar and for personal
use) or translation of any part of this document without
the permission of the copyright owner is unlawful. Requests
for permission or further information should be addressed
to the author.
CONTENTS
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1. DISCLAIMER AND LICENSE 5
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1.1 - DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY ............................ 5
1.2 - LICENSE ........................................... 5
2. INTRODUCTION 6
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2.1 YET ANOTHER TETRIS CLONE? ........................... 6
2.2 WHAT DO YOU NEED TO RUN SUPER RETRISS PRO? .......... 6
2.3 WHAT IF I DON'T HAVE A MOUSE? ....................... 7
3. GETTING STARTED 8
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3.1 QUICK START ......................................... 8
3.2 CONFIGURATION ....................................... 8
4. BASIC RULES OF THE GAME 9
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4.1 WHAT TO DO .......................................... 9
4.2 DETAILS AND SCORE ................................... 9
4.3 THE GAME SCREEN .................................... 10
4.4 CONTROL KEYS ....................................... 11
5. MAIN MENU OPTIONS 12
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5.1 PLAY ............................................... 12
5.2 HIGH SCORES ........................................ 12
5.3 OPTIONS ............................................ 13
5.3.1 GAME SPEED ...................................... 13
5.3.2 REDEFINE KEYS ................................... 13
5.3.3 MUSIC ........................................... 14
5.3.4 SOUND F/X ....................................... 14
5.3.5 FIRST LEVEL ..................................... 14
5.3.6 FIRST ZONE ...................................... 14
5.3.7 BOMBS ........................................... 14
5.3.8 HELP ............................................ 14
5.3.9 QUIT ............................................ 14
5.4 ZONE DESIGNER ...................................... 14
5.4.1 ENTERING THE DESIGNER ........................... 14
5.4.2 HOW TO DESIGN ................................... 15
5.4.2.1 IDENTIFYING THE AREAS ....................... 15
5.4.2.2 BLOCK AREA .................................. 15
5.4.2.3 REFERENCE & SELECTION AREAS ................. 16
5.4.2.4 EDITING AREA ................................ 16
5.4.2.5 MENU AREA ................................... 16
5.4.2.6 SAVING ZONES TO DISK ........................ 17
5.5 LOAD ZONES ......................................... 18
5.6 EXIT ............................................... 18
6. SOUND BASTER SUPPORT 20
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6.1 INSTALLING THE DRIVERS AND/OR SETTING UP THE
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE ............................... 20
6.2 WHAT CAN I HEAR IF I HAVE A SOUND BLASTER? ......... 20
6.3 WHAT ABOUT OTHER SOUND CARDS? ...................... 21
6.4 WHY MY SOUND CARD, 100% SB COMPATIBLE, DOESN'T WORK? 21
7. COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS 22
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7.1 GENERAL PURPOSE SWITCHES ........................... 22
7.2 SOUND SELECTION SWITCHES ........................... 22
8. LAST COMMENTS 24
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8.1 CONTACTING THE AUTHOR .............................. 24
8.2 NEXT RELEASES OF SUPER RETRISS PRO ................. 24
9. ERROR MESSAGES AND TROUBLE- SHOOTING 25
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9.1 GENERAL ERRORS ..................................... 25
9.2 OTHER ERRORS ..................................... 26
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║1 - DISCLAIMER AND LICENSE ║
╚────────────────────────────╙─────────────────────────────────────
1.1 - DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
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THIS SOFTWARE AND MANUAL ARE DISTRIBUTED "AS IS" AND
WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OF MERCHANTABILITY
OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.
BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS
INTO WHICH THIS PROGRAM MAY BE PUT, NO WARRANTY OF
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED.
EVEN THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY TESTED UNDER NON-
CRITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES, THE USER MUST ASSUME THE ENTIRE
RISK OF USING THE PROGRAM AND THE AUTHOR ASSUMES NO
LIABILITY OF ANY KIND.
1.2 - LICENSE
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Although this is free software in the sense that you can
legally use it without paying a penny, the author still
has all the copy rights, and only he can determine the
conditions for copying and distributing the software. The
conditions are as follows:
You, as a user, may freely copy and pass this program to
others, as far as you include all the files that come in
the original package. You cannot add ANY extra files,
nor destroy, change or modify any of the original files
included in this package in any way. If, for example, you
want to distribute free copies of zone files you have
created, they must be archived in a different file, and
not with the game.
You, as a user, can NEVER charge for a copy of Super
Retriss Pro.
Shareware and Public Domain software distributors or
anyone who wants to make a profit out of this program in
any way, MUST read the file SHARDIST.DOC.
Super Retriss Pro is copyrighted software, and al