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GENERIC TETRIS
============== Yet Another Tetris Game on X, V1.3
WHY ANOTHER?
Because this one is simple, easy to build, and portable -- actually
the blocks are bigger, more comfortable for your eyes. It only uses
Xlib -- no "toolkit" kind of thing. I have tested it without
modification on the following platforms:
Sun4, SPARC-2 SunOS 4.1.1 X11R4, X11R5
Iris 4D IRIX 4.0.1 X11R4
Sequent S81 DYNIX 3.2.0 X11R5
If your's is not in this list, please let me know -- thanks.
HOW TO BUILD?
"Make" it. If you want to put the score-file at a different
location (I bet you would), edit the Makefile correspondingly.
"Tetris" is the game. It only lists the top 15 players at the end.
"Tscores" will list all the players/scores for you.
ANYTHING SPECIAL IN PLAYING?
Use "j" to move left; "l" to move right; "k" to rotate. Left-handed
people may want to use "s", "d", "f" respectively. Use the space
bar to drop a block quickly.
Use CTRL-L key combination to redraw -- in case it mess somthing up.
As usual, "+" and "-" will speed up or lower down the speed. Note
that you don't need to press the SHIFT key -- "=" and "_" also
work.
If you press CTRL-S or "p", the game will be paused, and the window
will be iconified -- just in case your boss suddenly appears at
your door. ;o)
FOUND A BUG?
Send bugs (or their reports, or fixes) to the author:
Qiang Alex Zhao, azhao@cs.arizona.edu
Computer Science Department
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Refter to the "COPYRIGHT" notice in the "COPYRIGHT" file (yeah, as
its name implies).
HISTORY -- Oh no, not again: I failed in my history course!
Well ... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I studied an old tetris game for X10, wrote by Wayne Christopher
<faustus@cs.berkeley.edu> in 1988; then I adopted the ideas in
representing those "blocks" and rotating them, and added X11
stuff. Also I learned a lot from Nathan Sidwell's great game
"xmris", e.g. the "iconifying pause".
CHANGES
[Sep 23, 92] V1.3: Scoring -- a line in a higher level worth more
points; "tscores" program.
[Sep ??, 92] First set of versions, 1.0 through 1.2.