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WINTRIS (A Game for MS WINDOWS 2.0)
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 when the block landed and made a line(s) disappear
you will receive more points, depending on how far the block fell.
Also you will get more point if more lines disappear at the same
time. Thus, if 1 line disappears you get 1 point; if 2 lines
disappear you will get 2 points per line for a total of 4 points; if
3 lines disappear you will 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 you current score the one on the
left is you current speed level. Speed level increases every time
50 blocks have been dropped. You can also start with a higher speed
by choosing appropriate level at the beginning of the game.
Other Features:
You can increase your current speed level by clicking on 'Fast'.
And you can decrease you current speed level by clicking on 'Slow'.
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.
By clicking on 'Pause' you will pause the game, to continue click on
'Cont'.
You can turn the sound on/off by choosing system menu and selecting
'Sound On/Off' choice.
You can restart the game by clicking on 'New', at this point you will
get a list of top ten scores and can choose a different speed level.
When the game normally terminates, no more room for falling blocks,
you will be prompted for your name providing your score is higher
than one of the top ten scores. Top ten scores are kept in a
file -- 'wintris.scr'.
WINTRIS is a shareware product.
Please freely distribute the product, providing 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:
A lot of 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
$5.00 to the above address. A registration will entitle you to one
free upgrade.
Custom Versions:
For $10.00 you can become a registered user and receive a custom
copy with your name in the 'About' box and have custom blocks of
your choice included in the game.
To request a custom version, please specify all of the blocks
that you want to have in the game, (including the original
ones if you want to have them), by defining block on a
4x4 matrix.
The following examples are current block definitions:
**** ** * * ** ** *
** * * ** ** ***
** **
Please make sure that block are useful and reasonable, you can
specify as many blocks as can come up with.
History:
WINTRIS was initially release during the summer of 1989.
ADDED FEATURES
* bugs fixed
* bitmaps are used -- faster dropping blocks
* sound on/off
* pause key
* multiple levels of play
* scoring strategy
* score board
Comments:
If you have any comments/suggestions or extra $$$ send them to
the above address.