S O L E A U S O F T W A R E PLIX v1.0 ______________________ Program by William Soleau Requires: EGA/VGA Requires Files: Plix.ov0 Plix.ov1 Plix.ov2 Plix.ov3 Plix.ov4 Plix.ov5 Plix.jft Plix1.jft DIRECTIONS / OBJECTIVE The objective of Plix is to push the various shaped blocks on the game board into the proper positions in the rows below the grid. All the different shaped objects must be positioned on top of their negative images in order to solve the puzzle. PUSHING TILES The Red tile is called the pushing tile. You move the pushing tile with the . When you push a tile, it will continue to slide in that direction until it either hits another tile or reaches the side of the game board. If you push a tile down to the bottom of board, it will leave the board and will be placed in the two rows at the bottom. The idea is to cover the tile pattern which matches the tile pushed. TILE PATTERNS There are 4 tile patterns which can appear on the game board. These must be matched with their negative images in the last two rows. SCORING Points are given for each tile placed correctly. The points vary for each pattern. Triangle = 1 Square = 3 Circle = 5 Bow Tie = 10 To the right of the game board the scores are shown for the puzzle selected. The top box shows the highest possible number of points. The next box shows the highest point total you've gotten so far. The last box shows the current point score for the game in progress. A puzzle is completely solved when you push all the tiles onto their matching negative patterns in the last two rows. On the left side of the screen the Status Box shows if the current puzzle has been *SOLVED* or is still UNSOLVED. PERSONAL SCORE CARDS At the start of each Plix session, a Score Board Menu will appear. If there are no personal score cards on record, it will ask you to input your initials to create one. There can be up to five different personal score cards. Once you have selected the player's card, all scores will be saved to his or her own special score file. SELECTING PUZZLES Puzzles are selected by pressing the elect Puzzle key. A menu will pop up and allow you to select the puzzle to load onto the game board. The menu will pop up automatically when you first select a Player Score Card. KEYS At the bottom of the screen you have five different feature keys. irections ptions elect Puzzle ry Again uit At any time during a puzzle you can press the ry Again key to load the same puzzle again. If your score for that puzzle is higher then the previous high score, then it will be recorded as the new high score. OPTIONS Many features can be selected by pressing the ption button. The options are: Sound Toggle : On/Off Solutions : See the computer solve the puzzle Change Player : Change player score card Soleau Software : Information on Soleau Software Games SOLUTIONS There are 30 puzzles in this Shareware version of Plix. I have provided the solutions to the first five puzzles if you need them. If you want to see how the game is played, you can press the ption key and then select Solutions. The computer will then automatically push all tiles into the proper places right before your eyes ! * NOTE WINDOWS USERS * Playing Plix under Windows may cause unexpected results. The game should be played by loading it directly from the Dos prompt. * S O L E A U S O F T W A R E * Plix is distributed as Shareware. You are welcome to give this game to your friends or local BBS. If you like Plix and continue to use it, we ask you to register the game with us. Soleau Software depends on your registrations in order to continue providing an alternative to expensive commercial software. The registered version of Plix greatly speeds up the loading and exiting of the program, plus gives you a total of 60 mind-bending puzzles with the solutions to ALL! Your $12.00 registration of PLIX will instantly make you a Soleau Software Member. All members receive special discounts on our other games through special bonus package offers sent with your disk. Members also have the option to include an extra $6.00 dollars for our Member Disk Pack which has EIGHT of our most popular Shareware EGA/VGA games on a High Density Floppy Disk. This offer is for Members Only, so please take the time to read the Plix_reg.doc file for details and register Plix today ! We at Soleau Software thank you for your support and hope you will continue to enjoy this as well as our other Shareware products. Sincerely, William Soleau President Soleau Software 163 Amsterdam Avenue Suite 213 New York, NY 10023