TetriStation

Introduction

Download

Playing

Interface

Registration

About

TetriStation is a pack of 18 different tetris-like games, with different blocks, shapes, strategies and logic. This is a real tetris jukebox! Some of the games are the all-time classics, some are completely new and untasted. In all games your goal is to keep the board from filling up as long as possible and get the highest score. There are six types of the game, all of them are available on three different shapes - rectangular, hexagonal and triangular shapes. Every shape brings some special tricks and different strategies of playing, so the same game on different shapes appears to be a set of three completely different games.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

"TetriStation" is compatible with COLOR devices working under Palm OS 3.5 or above: Palm IIIc, Palm m505, Visor Prism, Sony PEG N700C, Sony PEG N710C.

INTRODUCTION
Train-your-Brain Tetris Game throws down a challenge!

In all games your goal is to keep the board from filling up as long as possible getting the highest score. There are six types of the game: Tetris, Pentix, Columns, Picktris, Blocktris and Mosaic. All of them are available on three different shapes - rectangular, hexagonal and triangular shapes. Every shape brings some special tricks and different strategies of playing, so the same game on different shapes appears to be a set of three completely different games.

The game combines features of the following genres: board, puzzle and strategy. That is everyone can find his "game stop" at TetriStation.

Try all the games and find the best one suiting your taste.

HAVE FUN!!!

INSTALLING

To install the TetriStation game on your device, use the ordinary Palm DeskTop HotSync process or equivalent to put TStation.prc on your handheld.

PLAYING THE GAME

You can play "TetriStation" in six different games: TETRIS, PENTIX, COLUMNS, PICKTRIS, BLOCKTRIS or MOSAIC. All of them are available on three different shapes - rectangular, hexagonal and triangular. Each game contains three skill levels: NOVICE, EXPERT and MASTER.



1. TETRIS - the most classic game. Each piece in this game consists of four blocks. You can rotate the falling piece to make it more useful. When you build a line of blocks that goes from the left side of the board to the right one - that line of blocks disappears. The more lines are removed at once - the more points you get. Game starts with empty board.


2. PENTIX - this is more advanced game, because here pieces contain 2-5 blocks. Other aspects of the game are identical to Tetris game.


3. PICKTRIS - At the beginning of this game you have a partially filled board with some special blocks on it. In order to finish a level you have to remove all of these special blocks. Other aspects of the game are identical to Tetris game.


4. COLUMNS - This game is much different from the previous ones, because here you can't rotate the falling piece, but you can switch position of blocks within the falling piece. In this game your goal is not to build lines that go from left to right through the board, but to place blocks with the same color close to each other. When three or more blocks with the same color are placed together - they disappear. Note that two blocks are considered to be placed together only if they share one common side.


5. BLOCKTRIS - There are no falling pieces in this game, so you can place the piece wherever you want, but not rotate a piece. All pieces contain 1-4 pieces. If you build a line of blocks that goes from one side of the board to another - that line of blocks disappears.


6. MOSAIC - In this game there are no falling pieces, you cannot rotate a piece or switch the blocks positions within a piece, but you can place a piece wherever you want. In order to clear some space on the board you have to place blocks with the same color close to each other, and when three or more blocks come together - they disappear just like in COLUMNS game.

That's all... Good luck!

INTERFACE

Icon
You can find the game under this icon on your device.

Splash screen

After the game loaded a short sound will be played and you can enter the game menu by tap at any place on the board.

Window "Pick Game"

You can call Pick Game right from the game, clicking the button PickGame in "Menu" window. It also appears at first launching of the game.

TETRIS - select the tetris game
PENTIX - select the pentix game
COLUMNS - select the columns game
BLOCKTRIS - select the blocktris game
PICKTRIS - select the picktris game
MOSAIC - select the mosaic game
SHAPE - here you can change the game shape

Window "Menu"

You can call Menu right from the game, clicking the button Menu on your device. It also appears after you select the game in "Pick Game" window.

CONTINUE - appears if you have an unfinished game.
NEW GAME - launches new game. Attention! If the game is not finished it will be interrupted without any warning. Be careful not to lose your game. Also, there is option AUTORUN for game (see below)
OPTIONS - game options
HELP - here you can receive short help and information about us.
TOP 10 - here your best results, which you can publish on the net, are stored
BUY ME - information how to register the game (*)
REGISTER - the form for entering the registration info (*)
EXIT - to quit the game (you can quit the game clicking the button applications from any window of the program

(*) - these items will be removed from the Menu after registration

Attention! All windows except the main one are dialogs. You can leave them using buttons (OK) and (CANCEL).

Window "Options"

You can set up your preferences in the window "OPTIONS". To change the option's value, just click the appropriate option name

DEFINE KEYS - to call the dialog window to change the keys (see below).
LEVEL - here you can change the difficulty level of the game (novice, expert, master) (*)
SOUND - here you can tune the sound volume (off, low, med, high)
AUTORUN - the option that allows you to start the game without the splash screen and menu (after the program launching you go directly to the playing field) (*)

(*) - these options are active in the registered version of the game.

Window "Define Keys"

You can change the keys to your taste just tap with the stylus the button of the actions:

LEFT - move to the left
RIGHT - move to the right
ROTATE - piece rotation or cyclical change of the block color (in Columns game)
DOWN - move to the down
DROP - drop to the down
MENU - to call Menu, you can use this action for Pause

Be attentive, saving the new setting is possible only when you set up all playing keys.

Window "TOP 10"

You can look at best game results in this window.

PUBLISH - this button opens the window with the code for publishing the best result on the Web
OK - close the window

Window "PUBLISH"

Shows the information needed to publish the best result in the chosen level on the Web.
Attention! Please be careful when filling the code in the publish form at our site.

REGISTRATION

This game is shareware. If you want to play it after the two-week trial period, please register it. This can be done securely at http://absolutist.com/palm

After the registration:

The reminder window "BUY ME" will not nag you any more.

Registered users have the following advantages:

to choose the game level (expert or master)
to launch the game in autorun mode (without splash screen or menu displaying)
to preserve the running game when you quit the program
to keep the points in the table of top scores
more Levels in Picktris game

You can register the program at http://absolutist.com/palm

Window "BUY ME"

It contains the information about where and how you can register the game. This window appears also as the reminder in the course of the game.

Window "REGISTER"

Enter your license information into the form: fill First and Last names into the first and second lines, respectively, and the license code into the last one. Two NAME fields has room for 12 characters each, including spaces; if your name, or surname, is longer just stop when no room is left, the registration code will still work. Using the virtual keyboard, you can enter letters, digits, a period, a dash and a space. You can choose the line tapping it with the stylus, the cursor (a blinking square) will show the line where you are now. When you begin typing, the prompts (FIRST/LAST NAME, REG CODE) will disappear.
Typing is done by means of the virtual keyboard, where the special buttons mean:
- space
- backspace (deletes of the symbol before the cursor)
- deletes the whole line

SUPPORT & UPGRADES

The information about new versions, upgrades, discounts, etc could always be found on the Web at http://www.absolutist.com/palm/tstation/

Our support team can be reached by e-mail at support@absolutist.com

You will find more games for Windows PC and Palm handhelds here:
http://absolutist.com/games.html
http://absolutist.com/palm

And that's not all! Every time you need a little diversion, welcome to our online section at
http://absolutist.com/online/

COPYRIGHT

TetriStation is a shareware ("try before you buy") game.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software. Redistributing the program is only allowed if it is not yet registered, except for the following restrictions:

The authors and origin of this software must be clearly stated, you must not claim that you wrote the original software.
This copyright notice may not be removed from or altered in a redistribution package.

Registered copies of TetriStation cannot be further redistributed.

This software is provided 'as is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the Icestone Trustee Limited or Absolutist.com be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.