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- WINTRIS (TETRIS for MS WINDOWS)
-
- Purpose:
- The purpose of the game is to fill as many horizontal lines as possible.
- When a line is filled it disappears and all of the blocks above it shift
- down.
-
- Motion:
- to move a block right press: '6' or right arrow or right mouse button
- to move a block left press: '4' or left arrow or left mouse button
- to rotate a block press: '5' or empty key on NumPad or middle mouse button
- to drop a block press: '2' or down arrow or space bar
- (when using mouse, make sure the pointer is inside the window)
-
-
- Scoring:
- Points are scored every time a line or several lines disappear. If you
- used a 'drop' key and the block made a line(s) disappear,
- you will receive more points, depending on how far the block fell.
- Also the more lines disappear at the same time, the more points are
- awarded. If 1 line disappears you get 1 point; if 2 lines
- disappear you get 2 points per line for a total of 4 points; if
- 3 lines disappear you get 3 points per line for a total of 9 points;
- and 16 points for 4 disappearing lines.
-
- The score is kept in the caption bar. There are two numbers separated
- by a ':'; the one on the right is your current score and the one on the
- left is your current speed level. Speed level increases every time
- 50 blocks have been dropped. You can also start with a higher speed
- by choosing the appropriate level at the beginning of the game.
-
- Other Features:
- You can increase your current speed level by pressing "Ctrl+F".
- And you can decrease your current speed level by pressing "Ctrl+S".
- You cannot slow down below your starting level; thus, if you started
- at speed level 5 and are currently playing at level seven, the lowest
- speed level that you can go to is 5.
-
- For a more challenging game, you can choose to have some lines filled
- when the game starts. The number of pre-filled lines can be chosen
- from the score board dialog.
-
- You can restart the game by pressing "Ctrl+N", at this point you will
- get a list of the top ten scores and can choose a different speed level and
- starting number of lines filled.
-
- The game terminates when there is no more room for falling blocks.
- If your score is in the top ten, then you will be prompted for your name.
- Top ten scores are kept in the file -- 'wintris.scr'.
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- "Ctrl+P"/"Ctrl+C" pauses/continues the game
- "Ctrl+O" toggles sound (on/off)
- "Ctrl+M" toggles sound (music/beeps)
- "Ctrl+Z" resizes screen to the standard size
- "Ctrl+N" start new game
- "Ctrl+S" slower play
- "Ctrl+F" faster play
- "Ctrl+E" toggles standard set/extended set
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- WINTRIS is a shareware product.
- Please freely distribute the product, (and make sure you include
- both files, wintris.exe and wintris.doc) and don't charge anything
- for the game.
-
- Copyright:
- Kipnis Enterprises
- 781 Glenhill Ct.
- Fremont, CA 94539
-
- Registration:
- Much time and effort went into the development of this program.
- If you find this product useful/entertaining/time wasting/funny/boring/
- addictive/challenging/or anything else please register by sending
- $15.00 to the above address. A registration will entitle you to one
- free upgrade.
-
- History:
- WINTRIS was initially released during the summer of 1989.
- The first release was called TETRIS.
-
- Release 2 ADDED FEATURES
- * bugs fixed
- * bitmaps are used -- faster play
- * sound on/off
- * pause key
- * multiple levels of play
- * scoring strategy
- * score board
-
- Release 3 ADDED FEATURES
- * sound effects
- * resizable window
- * option to start game with filled lines
- * blocks drop instanteneously
- * extended set of blocks
-
-
- Comments:
- If you have any comments/suggestions or extra $$$ send them to
- the above address.
-