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Super-Retriss Version 2.00
Unregistered Release
VGA game inspired on TETRIS (tm)
Manual of Operations
COPYRIGHT (C) 1992 by
Rogelio Bernal
All Rights Reserved
Ariana Fu / R.Bernal
62 Boylston St. #909
Boston, MA.02115
Written using Turbo C++ V1.0
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║ WHAT TO DO ║
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What you have to do is very simple. Every zone (or screen) will show ONE
flicking brick. You must ELIMINATE the row in where the brick is located,
by filling all the empty spaces with the pieces falling from the top of
the screen. When you're done, you will receive bonus depending on how many
seconds it took you to finish and how many empty lines are from the top of
the board to the highest brick found. Then you will see another zone (or
screen), and so on... When you finish the last zone of the current set,
you'll go back to the first zone again.
This release contains the standard 51 zones, plus some more files with new
zones.
To start playing, just type SR from the DOS prompt.
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║ MAIN MENU OPTIONS ║
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The main menu has been changed. The options available and their function
are :
1.- PLAY ───> Go to play !
2.- HIGH SCORES ───> To see the high score's table
3.- GRAPH-MATCH ───> Not included in the shareware release
4.- LOAD ZONES ───> Load new set of zones
5.- ZONE DESIGNER ───> Design your own zones
6.- REDEFINE KEYS ───> Select your favorite keys to play
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║ 1.- PLAY ║
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A familiar menu will be displayed, to select the set of pieces (as in
previous versions) you want to play with.
(1) - The set #1 contains the typical pieces found in every Tetris-like
game (7 different pieces / 4 bricks per piece).
(2) - The set #2 adds three more pieces.
(3) - The set #3 uses the pieces from sets #1 and #2 plus a few more,
with a total of 15 different pieces.
The pieces have not changed from previous versions.
I suggest you to use always the set #3. The set 3 may contain some pieces
difficult to play with, but there are also some pieces very helpful, not
present in the smaller sets.
SuperRetriss v2.00 Main Menu Options 1
If you decide not to play, the ESCape key will bring you back to the main
menu.
After you press 1,2 or 3, you will be asked for the zone you want to start
playing. Registered release allows you to start from any zone you want, always
within the limit of the zones available in that set. Shareware release lets
you start from zones 1 trhu 10. If you are not sure how many zones are in the
current set, you can find the number by selecting the options 4 or 5 in the
main menu. You can also go back to the previous menu with the ESCape key.
After you enter the zone number, wait one second and start to play. The
keys are shown in the initial screen, but you can select any keys you want
using the option 6 in the main menu.
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║ 2.- HIGH SCORES ║
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All entries in the table coming with this program have been reset to
10,000. If you have a table you wish to keep using, delete the file
SRETRISS.SCO from the directory where this game has been installed, and
copy the old STETRISS.SCO from the last release to the new directory.
Then, rename it to SRETRISS.SCO.If you have any problems, please,let me
know.
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║ 3.- GRAPH-MATCH ║
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Nice VGA game not included in the shareware release. There are shareware
copies of Graph-Match being distributed.
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║ 4.-LOAD ZONES ║
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This option lets you to load different sets of zones from the disk, that
you previously created or obtained from other sources.
However, there are some restrictions :
- You can only play ONE set of zones (or file) at a time. This means that
if you create a file by using the ZONE DESIGNER, and you create four
zones, when you exit the zone designer and go to play the game, you will
play only those four zones, until you exit the game and run it again or
you select a different set. Every time you run the program, the default
set will be the standard also included in the trial release (BOARDS.DAT).
- When you load a new file of zones, such file MUST be in the same
directory as the game in order to be found by the program. Another
important limitation is that the program will display only the first 20
files found (extension *.ZNE). This doesn't mean that you are limited
to 20 zone files (i.e. you can create a subdirectory and move the old
zone files to it), but you are to do the job.
SuperRetriss v2.00 Main Menu Options 2
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Mouse users
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Point & click with the mouse on the file name you want to use. It will
become red color. If you want to select a different one before exit the menu,
just point & click on the new name. The last one will turn to normal
ink and the new file will turn red.
To exit the menu, point & click on the title screen to load the selected
zone (the one in red). If you click on the title screen before selecting
any file, you will leave the menu with the current set of zones unchanged.
Also, if you don't want to load any file, just press ESCape.
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Keyboard users
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Use the arrow keys to move the blue arrow and point to the file you want to
retrieve. Then, press ENTER or SPACE to select, or ESCape to exit without
changes.
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║ 5.- ZONE DESIGNER ║
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If you don't have a mouse or a trackball installed, this option will be
displayed as UNAVAILABLE, and you will not be able to enter this option.
If you do, after select this option, before enter to the design screen,
the program will ask you :
DO YOU WANT TO MODIFY THE CURRENT SET
OR START WITH A NEW ONE (C/N) ?
If you answer C, you'll be able to edit and change the current set.
However a new name will be asked for it when you save it. So, no matter
what you do, you will never lose the current set, unless you save it with
the same name.
If you answer N, a new,clean,empty set will be ready for you to create
whatever you like. It will have only one zone (empty) for you to start
working. Later I shall explain how to add more zones.
To go back to the main menu, press ESC.
You can also click on the C or N on the screen with the left button of the
mouse. The right button will quit, going back to the main menu.
SuperRetriss v2.00 Zone Designer 3
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How to design
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Identifying the areas
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For a clear explanation and to avoid repeating, we'll assign intuitive
names to each of the different areas on the screen :
* On the left side of the screen you will see some small windows with all
the available colors for blocks. We'll call it the BLOCK AREA.
* On the top of the middle of the screen, you'll see three windows showing
a reduced drawing of the zone being edited, and the two adjacent zones
(previous and next). This area will be called the REFERENCE AREA.
* Under the reference area you'll see a window indicating the number of the
area being edited, and a big block used to indicate the current color being
used by the editor. This is the INFORMATION AREA.
* Under the information area, there is a big grid (the EDITING AREA),
* On the right side of the screen there is a menu with several options
available (MENU AREA).
* Under the menu area th