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- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.atari.st
- Subject: v08i046: columns -- Tetrisoid game
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- Date: 24 Oct 89 21:40:21 GMT
- Reply-To: mars@duteca.tudelft.nl (P.C.M van der Arend en Gert-Jan Tromp)
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- Submitted-by: mars@duteca.tudelft.nl (P.C.M van der Arend en Gert-Jan Tromp)
- Posting-number: Volume 8, Issue 46
- Archive-name: columns
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- [maybe i missed something, blocks won't turn. -jf-]
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- This new game, columns, looks like tetris, but is more fun.
- There are falling columns which are build of three blocks. Each
- block can have a different color. With the 'turn'-key you can rotate
- the three blocks of the column and with some other keys, you can
- move the column to the left, right or down. If a column falls on the
- heap and there is a sequence of blocks with the same color which
- contains 3 or more blocks, then these blocks will disappear.
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- When you have a high-resolution monitor, you can start the game and
- a self explaining menu pops up in front of you. The documentation
- which is needed is included in the program (it scrolls in the
- top half of the screen). Which are the features ?...
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- * 10 playing levels (0-9)
- * variable number of lines with random placed blocks to begin with.
- * variable heigth of the play-field (1 to 16 lines).
- * possibility to set your own keys for left, right, turn and drop.
- * save option to save the high-scores and your preferences.
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- When playing, you can switch on a window for:
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- * Next - this will give you a look-ahead of the next columns.
- * Statistics - to prove that the program is not against you.
- * Stop - to pause the game and get some coffee.
- * Quit - to quit the game and get some sleep.
- * Help - to get this table on your screen.
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- >>> When you quit from a game you will get the main menu again. <<<
- >>> When you quit from the main menu, the high scores are NOT <<<
- >>> saved automaticly. You must save them with the save option. <<<
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- To get your columns-game running. First, you must 'uudecode' this
- binary. Then, you'll get a file with the name 'COLUMNS.ARC'. When you
- unarchive this file, you get the executable file 'COLUMNS.PRG' and
- the high-score-table 'COLUMNS.HIG' which you can start on your
- ATARI ST.
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- your dealer PCM vd Arend.
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- * PCM vd Arend | ...12th commandment: *
- * Delft University of Technology | Thou shall not play *
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- * P.O. Box 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands | 2 hours without 15 *
- * Email: mars@duteca.tudelft.nl | minutes of rest... *
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