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- ║ T E T R I S ║
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- ║ S p e c i a l T o u r n a m e n t E d i t i o n ║
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
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- │ A PSION Series-3a conversion of the famous game │
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- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- ╕ Copyright 1994-1995 by Marco Aicardi
- Version 1.5
-
-
- ┌───────────┐
- ───────────────────────────────┤ SHAREWARE ├──────────────────────────────────
- └───────────┘
-
- TETRIS is Shareware. You can use it freely for 14 days. If you find this
- program nice and you like it, please register it by sending Lit. 25000 (or
- equivalent in your local currency) to:
-
- Marco Aicardi,
- Via G. Acerbi 6/3
- 16148 - GENOVA (Italy)
-
- Tel & Fax: +39-10-391760
- e-mail: maicardi@mbox.vol.it
-
- │ Please note that cheques or EuroCheques *must* be in your local currency │
- │ or in Italian Lires (Lit.), otherwise my bank will reject them due to high │
- │ fees for the international operation. │
-
- Registered users will receive a code for registering the program with the
- following features:
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ * Free Tournament (see TOURNAME.TXT) │
- │ * No more nag-screen and introductive delays │
- │ * Capability of saving start-up options │
- │ * Capability of high-score management │
- │ * Possibility of changing default sounds │
- └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- You use this program at your own risk: the Author will not be liable of
- any damage caused by use or misuse of this program.
-
- I have found none, but if you find any bug, please report me. Comments and
- suggestions are welcome.
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ e-mail: maicardi@mbox.vol.it │
- │ puericultura@vaxgea.ge.infn.it │
- └────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- The first address is preferred.
-
- If the above addresses should fail, please mail Steve Litchfield at
- slitchfield@cix.compulink.co.uk to have further information on my latest
- e-mail account.
-
- Please remember that this game took me a long work, and that you can help
- me in making new games and programs just registering this game.
-
- Please support Shareware!
-
-
- ┌──────────────┐
- ─────────────────────────────┤ DISTRIBUTION ├─────────────────────────────────
- └──────────────┘
-
- The TETRIS game and auxiliary files are copyrighted, but you are hereby
- granted permission to make and distribute copies for personal,
- non-commercial use. Use them yourself, give copies to friends and
- co-workers, or distribute them for a cost-based fee as part of a user's
- group or bulletin board service. If you wish to distribute these programs
- in connection with any other product, or for use in commercial
- applications, please contact me for a license agreement. All of the files
- that make up this product must be distributed together, in an UNMODIFIED
- form.
-
-
- ┌──────────────┐
- ─────────────────────────────┤ INSTALLATION ├─────────────────────────────────
- └──────────────┘
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ If you have RCOM installed on your PC, just start INSTALL.BAT from DOS │
- │ prompt and follow the on-screen instructions. │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- The files you should have in the archive are:
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- FILE NAME WHERE TO COPY DESCRIPTION
- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- * TETRIS.OPA \APP\ The executable game file
- * TETRIS.DAT \APP\TETRIS\ The game data file
- * TETRIS.HLP \APP\TETRIS\ The help file
- TETRIS_0.WVE \APP\TETRIS\ In-game sound ┐
- TETRIS_1.WVE \APP\TETRIS\ In-game sound ├─ Tetris can run
- TETRIS_2.AIK \APP\TETRIS\ In-game sound │ without these
- TETRIS_3.AIK \APP\TETRIS\ In-game sound │ files installed
- TETRIS_4.AIK \APP\TETRIS\ In-game sound ─┘
- TETRIS.TXT *DON'T COPY* This documentation
- TOURNAME.TXT *DON'T COPY* First World Tetris Tournament Documentation
- HISTORY.TXT *DON'T COPY* Tetris History File
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- To install, simply copy these files ALL ON THE SAME DRIVE to the above
- directories, then install the System icon as you normally would with
- another program. Then run it!
-
- (File indicated by * are vital for running the game).
-
- Please note that the Help file is requested only to unregistered users.
- Registered users can delete it, if they want.
-
- ─┤ IMPORTANT ├─
-
- In this version of Tetris I have added my own AICA Sound Compressor
- routines. The AICA is a loss sound compressor which gives a 2:1 constant
- compression ratio while having high compression and decompression speed.
- The compressed sound files are identified by a .AIK extension.
-
- The complete AICA package will be released soon. It will include support
- for OPL and C programmers and a AICA compatible version of the ROM Record
- application. Please contact me if you should need further information.
-
- Obviously Registered User will not be able to change the compressed sound
- files as long as AICA has not been released.
-
- Who is interested in more info on the AICA compression package, can
- contact me by e-mail at the above address.
-
-
- ┌────────────┐
- ──────────────────────────────┤ USER GUIDE ├──────────────────────────────────
- └────────────┘
-
- There is no need (I think) of instructions! If you don't know Tetris at
- all, give a look to the on-line help system (available even while playing
- by pressing the Help key) or simply ask to a friend of yours.
-
- I made no pause key, but the game enters in a pause mode when you change
- the active process (pressing the System key, for example) or when you
- press the Menu key.
-
- Remember that, in order to access to the menu functions, you must not
- press the hot-key itself, but you must press the Menu key then the hot
- key, instead.
-
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
- ────────────────────┤ TRADEMARKS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ├───────────────────────
- └─────────────────────────────────┘
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- Series-3a is trademark of PSION.
-
- Original Tetris programming and idea by Alexey Pazhitnov.
-
- To achieve maximum processing speed, part of the AICA compression and
- decompression routines were developed using Giles Goddard's and Krister
- Wombell's S3Asm, a Series-3a 8086 Assembler.
-
- Furthermore I have to beg pardon to David Kohn, who was the first one to
- report the double-movement, and some months passed since I promised him a
- fix to Tetris. Excuse me, David, but I ran into big troubles since I
- *completely* lost both my HD source file AND the disk backup (Murphy's Law
- hits again: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong"), so I had to
- start again from a PAPER PRINT-OUT of a very early version of the game.
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- ║ THANKS FOR PLAYING TETRIS ║
- ║ (AND FOR REGISTERING IT!) ║
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