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- Advanced Tetric: README
- =======================
-
- Please read this file carefully (especially "Installation"
- chapter) before installing the program to your computer.
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- Contents
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- Program information
- Company information
- Description
- Requirements
- Installation
- History
- Registration
- Copyright and license
- Technical support
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- Program information
- -------------------
-
- Program Archive Name:
- at.zip
- Program Name:
- Advanced Tetric
- Program Version:
- 3.51
- Program Release Date:
- September 14, 2000
- Program Description:
- Great Tetris, Pentix, Color Tetris and much more... Must-have for Tetris fans!
- Target OS:
- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT
- Software type:
- Shareware ($17.95)
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-
- Company information
- -------------------
-
- Company Name:
- PCbit Software
- Contact E-mail Address:
- support@pcbit.com
- Contact WWW URL:
- http://www.pcbit.com/
- Contact Postal Address:
- 20-128 Topoley str.
- Samara 443115 Russia
-
-
- Description
- -----------
-
- Advanced Tetric is a little more than just Tetris. It also
- includes Pentix, a popular variation of Tetris that's more
- complicated and more interesting, Color Tetris and two additional
- variations of Tetris: Advanced Tetris, Advanced Pentix.
-
- There are also eight different block sets to play with: blocks,
- numerals, kinetics, dice, wild, planes, plasma and misc. You can
- use your own sound effects if you like, but the preset sounds will
- not disturb you while you play. The background picture can also be
- changed to your liking.
-
- Outstanding graphic and wonderful background music will bring you to
- the world of pleasure and fun, to the world of Advanced Tetric.
-
- CNET Says:
- This charming clone is a must-have for Tetris fans!
-
- Features:
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- - 5 variations of Tetris;
- - 8 different Block Sets;
- - Multilingual Interface;
- - Background music
- - User-defined dimensions of playing area;
- - Keyboard, Joystick or Mouse control;
- - Boss key;
- - User-defined Background picture;
- - Load game / Save game Option;
- - 10 Levels;
- - 3 degrees of difficulty (Easy, Normal and Hard);
- - User-defined sound effects;
- - PC-Speaker sound effects support;
- - User-friendly interface;
- - Install / Uninstall Support;
- - Life-time technical support;
- - ... and much more
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-
- Requirements
- ------------
-
- Minimum requirements:
-
- - IBM PC-compatible computer;
- - 8 bit color video card (640x480 resolution mode);
- - Windows 95/98/2000 or Windows NT;
- - 1.1 Mb hard drive space.
-
- Recommended system:
-
- - 16 bit color video card;
- - sound card with Windows 95/98/2000/NT support.
-
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- Installation
- ------------
-
- Important! If you've got AT not from our web page, but from
- the other source (magazine CD or some software library), please
- visit our home page - you'll probably find the later version;
- usually, we release the updates about once a month.
-
- To install AT, just copy the distribution kit content into the
- temporary directory, run the "setup.exe" and follow the
- instructions.
-
-
- History
- -------
-
- See "history.txt" file.
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- Registration
- ------------
-
- See "order.txt" file.
-
-
- Copyright and license
- ---------------------
-
- See "license.txt" file.
-
-
- Technical support
- -----------------
-
- Before you contact us, please do the following:
-
- - Be sure that you're doing everything right. We all make
- mistakes sometimes... Be attentive.
- - Look at the Help file: it may already contain an answer to
- your question. A lot of people ask us something like "how
- do I:", though the complete information is there.
- - Visit AT home page in the Internet at
- http://www.pcbit.com/at/. It's a good chance that you'll
- find the newer version of AT there. If the serious bug has
- been found in the program, but the new version is not ready yet,
- we make the hot fix for it.
-
- But if you still have a problem with AT and noting else helps,
- please contact technical support at support@pcbit.com.
-
- Please inform us about the following:
-
- - Advanced Tetric version (from "About" dialog)
- - Advanced Tetic registration key (if you're a registered user)
- - where did you get Advanced Tetric (http or ftp site)
- - Windows 95/98/NT version (including service packs and other
- fixes installed), US or international, OEM or not
- - computer information: CPU type and speed, installed memory
- - description of your problem (as much information as possible
- to retrieve the problem)
-
- Note: you may want to read the "How to Determine the Version of
- Windows 95 in Use" article by Microsoft. Use the following URL:
-
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q158/2/38.asp
-
- In order to get the complete computer information (working under
- Windows 95), open the Control Panel, click on "System" applet and
- press "Print" on "Device Manager" tab.
-
- If you have any comments or suggestions for the next releases,
- please don't hesitate to post them to us.
-