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	'                          ISTRIS                               *
	'                Tetris clone for Windows                       *
        '            (C)1997-99 Ismael Salvador Igual                   *
	'                        readme.txt                             *
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Please read the last lines.

Istris History at 30/11/00

'15/9/97 Form and data structures design
'16/9/97 First code lines and test of main functions
'17/9/97 Graphic Environment tests and figure introduction
'18/9/97 Score system
'29/9/97 Nice backgrounds and colors
'1/10/97 Creation of levels and pause implementation
'2/10/97 Fixed pause bug
'3/10/97 Includes sound
'4/10/97 Effects when finshing levels
'6/10/97 Add/Modify/Delete figures
'8/10/97 Figures can be saved
'9/10/97 The form is centered on screen
'25/10/97 Mouse or Keyboard available. Version 0.9
	v.0.9 is in http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6537
'6/11/97 Usage Manual
'22/7/98 Fixed several bugs
	 Version 0.9c (not distributed)
'23/7/98 Fixed bug on cancel when opening a file
         You can select the background image with a BMP
	 Load/Save Games
         Version 1.0 is released
'24/7/98 Istris v.1.0 is available on
	 http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6537
'25/10/97 You can play with keyboard or mouse
	  Distribution of version 0.9 on Internet at
	  http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6537 

'20/10/98 Now Istris when closed does not appear as an active proccess
	  First draft of English version
'27/1/99  Multilingual version (Spanish-English) 
	  Version 1.0.9 (not distributed)
'8/2/99   Version 1.1 (Complete English support)
'9/2/99   Istris v1.1. on Internet
'30/11/00 Packed Version 1.1c similar to 1.1 but some fixed bugs

Istris Files
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	Istris is distributed in a file called istris11.zip and has:
Name         
L.WAV       Completed Line Sound
README.TXT  This file
ISTRIS.DAT  Configuration file
ISTRIS.ITF  Istris figures file
ISTRIS.ITP  Istris play file
ISTRIS.EXE  Istris executable file


User Manual
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English is not my mother tongue, so from now on you can see the 
greatest mistakes you've ever seen.

1.-What is Istris and what can do?
	  (Main Features)
	  Istris name come from (ISmael teTRIS) :-)
	  Istris idea born after exams period while I played with a
	  litle machine of Tetris. Then I thougth it cannot be very
	  difficult moving some figures made up of little squares,
	  so I began implementing some algorithms on paper, then I
	  open Visual Basic and that was turning into a Tetris-like
	  game, only a week.

          
	  What Istris can do?, well you can see it like another 
	  Tetris Clone (this has multilingual support), surely this
	  has not realistic animations and 3D sound, but it has a 
	  GREAT ADVANTAGE, you can CREATE  your own FIGURES and USE
	  them whenever you want :-) simply wonderful.

2.-Options and Controls
   2.1.-Main Screen Options
	This screeen has several buttons who are described below:
        PLAY:  Starts a new game.
	RESET: Finish the active game and reinitialisas
	EDIT:  Opens Edit Window.
	HELP: Little Help on Keyboard controls.
	QUIT: You can imagine.
	
	Also in the right bottom side of the window appears a rectangle
	so as to configure the sound, just click on it.

   2.2.-Game controls
	You can control Istris with  keyboard and/or mouse, however 
	mouse mode doesnt work well.

	Action:                 Keyboard:               Mouse:
	Left                    I                       Right
	Right                   O                       Left
	Rotate                  E                       Left Button
	Drop   	                D                       Rigth Button

	
	You can select Keyboard, Mouse and Sound by clicking on the
	desired options at Help Screen.
	If a sound error occurs, you can turn it off by clicking on 
	sound box, also you can click on Sound On/Sound Off in Main
	Screen.

3.-Figure edition *** (IMPORTANT)
	
	This is the main feature of Istris.
	Istris has several built-in figures, but you can define up 
	to 32 figures more.
	Edit window informs the user about the user-defined figures
	(not the built-in figures), current figure which you are editing
	and a scroll bar so as to change the figure number.
	In addition to informative elements, there are some control to
	edit the figures.

	Edition GRID: You can "draw" the figure by clicking on the small
	squares with the selected colour, if you ckick on a coloured 
	squares this will be deleted and its color will be white.
	Frame1, Frame2, ... are supposed to be the different forms that
	figures have when you rotate them.
	Built-in figures are rotated in a clockwise way but you can do what
	you want with user-defined figures. 

	LEVEL: The figure will appear in this level and following levels,
	the first level is 0 and the last one is 9.

	Scroll Bar: You can view your figures.

	ADD: Adds the current figure. (The figure you are viewing now.)
	A new figure is created.
	
	DELETE: Deletes the selected figure.

	MODIFY: If have selected a figure and you have modified it, a new one
	is not created, modifications occur in the selected figure.

	OPEN: Loads file of Istris figures (*.itf), several files can be
	loaded with a maximum of 32 figures.
	Figures are stored sequentially in the load order.

	SAVE: Saves a file (*.itf) with all the user-defined figures.

	EXIT: As you can imagine, you go to Main Scren.

	**NOTE: Figures defined during a play can be used in the same play,
	this is what I call RTFF (Real Time Figure Definition).
	Moreover you can also add and/or delete a figure during a play (oh,
	this can be known as RTFM (Real Time Figure Management) :-)

I hope you have not read the complete text, in this case its time to play, GO!

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Please, please, please send me an e-mail and tell me what you think about
this program or whatever you want to: 
   issalig@inf.upv.es
   issalig@yahoo.es

You must tell your friends how cool is Istris and give them a copy.
Please feel free to distribute it. But dont modify it.
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