o-----------------------------------------------------------o | | | This file is only meant to be a brief guide to Blitris. | | | | A full detailed AmigaGuide revision is on the way. | | | | ** Sorry for these rushed instructions ** | | | o-----------------------------------------------------------o o-------------------------------------------------o | | | . . .. B L I T R I S .. . . | | | | By | | | | L e i g h B o w e r s | | | | | | (C) Copyright 1995 The Tyrrell Corporation | o-------------------------------------------------o o-------------------------------------------------o | | | !! BLITRIS IS SHAREWARE !! | | | | IF YOU PLAY IT REGULARLY PLEASE SEND £5-£10 | | TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS | | | | Leigh Bowers, | | 209 Birmingham Road, | | Redditch, | | Worcs, | | England. | | B97 6EA. | | | | £5 ... Will receive the latest version. | | £10 ... Will receive the latest version, the | | full Blitz 2 Source code and some extra | | Blitz 2 programs. | | | o-------------------------------------------------o Blitris v1.00 Quick Documentation r1.00 - 17/08/95 Designed/Coded by Leigh Bowers in Blitz II. (C) Copyright The Tyrrell Corporation 1995. System Requirements :- Blitris AGA Amiga (A1200/A4000) ... Required Libs/DiskFont.Library ... Required Hard Disk ... Optional Hard Disk Installer Libs/ReqTools.Library ... Required Prefs/Env-Archive/ReqTools.Prefs ... Required About Blitris ============= Blitris is a complete version of "Tetris" for AGA Amigas. Features :- 1 or 2 Players (Simultaneous) 5 Different Block Sets GameBoy Sound FX Ability to use own OctaMED music in-game 10 High-Score Tables (All Time Top Ten's) Hard Disk Installation ====================== Run the "HD-Install" program from your Blitris disk and follow the on-screen instructions. Note. "HD-Install" requires that ReqTools.Library be in your Sys:Libs/ drawer. If you do not already have this, boot from your Hard Drive, Insert this disk and double click on the "Libs-Install" program. This will also copy PowerPacker.Library if you don't already have it. Loading ======= Double click on the Blitris icon form WorkBench. Options ======= ** Number of Players ... 1 or 2 ** Controls ............ Changes P2 Controls (Joystick or Keys) Number of Rounds .... Best of 5, 7 or 9 rounds (first to 3,4 or 5) Rotation Direction .. N/a Sound Type .......... Select SFX, Music or Off Start Level ......... 0 = Easy, 9 = Hardest Block Sets .......... A-E. A = Standard, E = Diamonds (hard to play with) Next Block .......... Turn Next Block update On or Off .. Statistics .......... Gives various Statistics on Game Start ............... Start Game with current options Exit ................ Return to Title page and save options ** = Affects 2 Player Game only .. = Affects 1 Player Game only Game Play ========= I'm not going to explain how to play Tetris as I think basically everyone has played it at some point (hopefully the GameBoy version). Controls -------- Player 1 ... Joystick 1 Player 2 ... Joystick 0 KeyBoard (Cursor Keys and Right Shift) In-Game Keys ------------ [ESC] ... Quit current game [P] ... Pause game ([P] or ROTATE un-pauses) > 1 Player Game ------------- Player 1 ... Yellow. The aim is simply to achieve the highest score possible. Every 10 (Ten) lines the games difficulty will increase by 1 (until 9). With each new increase, the game will become faster. Displayed on screen :- Score Level Total Lines High-Score Table Position. Scoring ------- The more lines you remove with any one block, the more points you are awarded. This is then multiplied by the current game level, therefore, a single line on level 9 is worth 10 times more than that of one on level 0. High-Scores are saved to disk once you have entered your name, so even if you reset or turn off your Amiga, you will not loose your scores. If your disk is write protected the scores will NOT be saved at all. Resetting the High-Score Tables ------------------------------- Simply delete "Blitris.HiScores" from the main directory and Blitris will default to it's original tables. > 2 Player Game ------------- Player 1 ... Red. Player 2 ... Blue. The aim is to out-play your opponent by surviving longer. You will both receive the same series of (random) blocks. For every Double, Triple or Blitris (4) you achieve, your opponent will receive lines at the base of their game area. E.g. 1 Line [ Single ] ... sends ... 0 Lines 2 Lines [ Double ] ... sends ... 1 Line 3 Lines [ Triple ] ... sends ... 2 Lines 4 Lines [ Blitris ] ... sends ... 3 Lines. The total number of rounds to be played is determined by the settings in the options page (5, 7 or 9). The game is over once a player has a trophy in all of the once empty spaces on the ScoreBoard. Returning to WorkBench ====================== Simply press [ESC] on the Title page, About page or the High-Scores page. Using you own OctaMED tune in-game ================================== Use AMFC Pro 3.1 to convert your music to OctaMED format and save it as "Blitris.Music". I had some trouble with the OctaMED format. ie. the music played SLOW in Blitris. Running it through AMFC Pro and saving it back as an OctaMED module worked fine though (WIERD!!). Developement ============ Amiga 4000/EC030, 6 Meg RAM, FPU, HD, SCSI2, CD. Blitz 2 v1.90. Deluxe Paint IV AGA. Imagine 3.0. Audio Engineer Plus. AF OctaMED 5.01. CU Image FX 1.5. PD Crunch Mania v1.9t. PD PpMiniCrunch. PD Imploder 4.0. PD SnoopDOS 3.0. PD AMFC Pro. Play Testers ------------ Tracey Barnes - A4000 030 4 Meg Fast Alan Insley - A1200 020 0 Meg Fast Philip Walker - A1200 020 0 Meg Fast Gregory Storer - A4000 030 4 Meg Fast Known Problems/Bugs ------------------- (1) Both [SPACE] and [P] keys are not being cleared down and are therefore appearing on the High-Score name entry routine (Blitz 1.90 BUG). (2) Blitz 2 executable jump to Sys: on execution. To get around this (until the bug is fixed) I use a simple script and the IconX command. (This is only a temporary solution.) (3) The flickery screen fades are down to Blitz 2 also. History ======= 1.00 ... 18/08/95 ... First Release. Posible Enhancements (?) -------------------- a) 3 Players ( Simultaneously ) b) Sound Sets c) New Docs ( AmigaGuide ) Special thanks go to ... Tracey Barnes (my fiancee) for pushing me with the Blitris project. Alan Insley for his suggestions for improvements.