Katetris II - The Shadow Dimension
Copyright 1996 Paul K. Pekkarinen
Version 1.1

1. How to register
2. Game instructions
3. Keyboard commands
4. Contact address

1. How to register

   This game is shareware. If you play Katetris II more than 30 days,
   you must register or stop using this product.

   Fill katreg.txt and print it, or write everything down and send the
   letter included with registration money, check or money order to the
   address found from the end of this file.

   In katreg.txt, first choose the form of registration, marking your
   choice with X. Enter the date of registration next. After that, type
   in the name of person who you want to register this game. First and
   last name will do the trick. Then, put the address where you want me to
   send the registration key. You can also write down your e-mail address
   to get the registration key much faster via e-mail.

   When you get the registration key, run katreg.exe and type in exactly
   the same name as in the registration form you send me. Only after that
   the key will work because it will only match with the name which was in
   the registration form.

2. Game instructions

   Type KTR and hit Enter to start the game. When the main menu appears,
   you can select:

   START GAME       begin a new game
   NORMAL           select difficulty level (EASY, NORMAL or HARD)
   VIEW HIGHSCORES  view top ten players
   CREDITS          find out who programmed this game
   REGISTERED TO..  view shareware note (only in unregistered version)
   EXIT             return to the operating system

   In gameplay, you move a simple block which contains four smaller blocks.
   You try to match those coloured and/or shaped (you can select shaped
   blocks by pressing 'O') blocks to another blocks on the board.
   Try to build vertical, horizontal or diagonal lines from smaller blocks
   with the same colour and/or shape.

   When you first time drop blocks, you'll notice that the colour of blocks
   change to darker versions, and in shaped blocks a small hole appears.
   You can't match light and dark versions of the blocks together. When
   you drop another blocks the first ones come back to light. You always
   move light version of blocks, therefore you must match your blocks with
   the current light version of blocks.

   Some explosive stuff will enter to the gameplay in easy and normal
   difficulty levels. Hard level has no bombs plus it adds one extra
   block which makes it more difficult to match blocks together to make
   them go boom.

   Easy level bombs are shaped and colored as blocks in the gameplay.
   They only change the color of blocks to same as the bomb color is.
   You can use this to change three blocks which are located under and
   both sides of the bomb, and hurt them really. These bombs appear
   randomly in every 20th block.

   Normal and Easy both contains also another bomb which destroys
   ten vertical blocks, this will also appear in every 20th block,
   but in Easy level you will get first shaped bomb and then vertical
   destroyer, so that every 10th block contains one bomb in Easy level.

   In gameplay you can read these statistics:

   SCORE    your current score
   BLOCKS   amount of blocks destroyed
   LEVEL    current level
   HISCORE  high score
   NEXT     blocks that will appear next
   
   When you destroy certain amount of blocks, you will gain access to the
   next level. This will make gameplay faster, but you will also have more
   points from destroyed blocks.
   
   There is also a "drop bonus" which means if you drop blocks earlier you
   will get more drop bonus, but only if you also destroy some blocks at
   the same time.

   When game is over and if you made it to the top ten list,
   type in your name and press Enter.

3. Keyboard commands

   In main menu:

   Down Arrow ....... move down
   Up Arrow ......... move up
   Space or Enter ... select
   Esc .............. return to operating system

   In gameplay:
   Left Arrow or A .. move blocks left
   Right Arrow or D . move blocks right
   Down Arrow or S .. rotate blocks
   Space or Enter ... drop blocks
   R ................ toggle rotate direction
   F ................ toggle sound fx
   O ................ toggle shaped blocks
   P ................ change palette
   Esc .............. quit game with (y/n)-confirmation / pause game

4. Contact address:

   Paul Pekkarinen
   Rikantie 3
   43900 Kinnula
   Finland

   Internet e-mail: paulkp@mikropc.fi
