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- Version 10.0
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- Copyright (c) 1991 Graham Cluley. All Rights Reserved.
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- Documentation By Dogg
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- If you haven't seen BLOX before, or a game fairly similar to it (but not
- nearly as amazing) called Te**is, you are either:
- 1. Dead
- 2. Amazingly close to being dead
- 3. Living in Peterborough, and probably an estate agent
-
- Okay, for those of you who don't know, the idea of the game is that there
- are these blox, and they're falling from the top of the screen, to,
- amazingly enough, the bottom of the screen, where they make an untidy pile.
-
- What YOU have to do is stop them from reaching the top by organising them
- into neat horizontal lines which then disappear!! Don't ask me where they go
- to....
-
- There are several different shaped blox (in a variety of attractive and nice
- colours), so it's not that easy, but you can twist them round to fit into
- gaps and things. The game gets faster as you go along.
-
- At the start of the game, there's a thing that allows you to select what
- sort of computer you're using, to allow for the differences in speed of
- PCs. If the game goes too fast, select SUPA DUPA AT.
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- AMAZING FEATURES OF BLOX THAT MAKE IT MORE AMAZING THAN, ER....SOMETHING
- VERY AMAZING...
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- * Inedible SOUND WOGGLE!! So you don't annoy your neighbours!
-
- * Variable speed thingy to make the game faster or slower!
-
- * Pause key, for when it's time to feed the cat / have dinner / play
- JACARANDA JIM (another amazing game by the same author!!!)
-
- * Choice of mono or colour Blox for people who couldn't afford a colour
- licence for their monitors!
-
- * 'Next Block' thing shows what sort of block will appear next, lets you
- plan ahead!
-
- * No CFCs or artificial preservatives. Ideal for vegetarians.
-
- * Hi Score table complete with FREE advert for JACARANDA JIM!!
-
- * Automatic testing for mono monitor. Some mono monitors cannot produce
- a 40 column display and will "hang-up" - BLOX automatically senses this
- and reverts to the standard eighty columns! If you like you can force
- 80 columns by typing BLOX 80 at the system prompt. Sometimes it is a
- good idea to type MODE 40 before trying this.
-
- * Most amazing of all....BOSS key for people playing Blox in places they
- shouldn't be playing Blox!! Simply press ESC and the game metamorphoses
- into a cunning spreadsheet thing! Better than the average Boss key, it
- actually allows you to input things. Pressing TAB returns you to the
- game in the same place as you left it.
-
- If you like the game, send some money to Gray (and some to me if you like)
- to the address shown at the end of the game, because he's a poor starving
- computer programmer, and he really deserves some money. He might even send
- you a copy of JACARANDA JIM!!
-
- Oh by the way, my name's Dogg, thank you very much and goodnight.