Short: A UNIQUE game in the Tetris genre. Readme! Action: NoAGA; NoA4000 Syzygy V 2.0 ============ By Keith P. Johnson =================== Quick Overview -------------- Syzygy is a game where you move pieces around to form lines of the same color that are at 4 blocks or longer in length. Pieces contain 3 blocks, each one of which can be 1 of 4 colors. The pieces fall in a manner similar to T*tris, but as I always have tried to stress, this game is NOT T*tris, nor anything like it. It is merely in the same genre (move-the-piece-to-make-lines). You really should give it a try! Features -------- * >THREE< different games to play! * Endurance game - go as long as you can! * Arcade game - meet the goals, but watch out for random elements! * Skill game - just how good ARE you at all the aspects of Syzygy? * Selectable start level on each game! * 3-d relief look for blocks and pit! * Game pause key and game abort key! (As well as a program kill key!) * Auto-pause if game is sent to the background! * Comprehensive status report during game play! * "Wild" blocks that can act as 1 or up to all 4 colors! * Main game play on a >32< color screen! * Cool purple fade-out-fade-in copper rainbow! * Super-comprehensive scoring based on months of playtesting! * Timer-based play! (Should be the same speed on all Amigas!) * Keeps track of the >TOP 100< scores of >ALL THREE< games individually! * "Unerasable" champion scores, including the best score off of one drop! * Displays results of last game and rank of your score in demo mode! * Works on the A3000 with Kickstart/Workbench 2.04! * Totally hard-drive installable and relocatable! * Squashed to take up about 55% of the space it should on disk! * Written and compiled with AMOS 1.34! * Multitasks! * Attention paid to the tiniest details of the game! Little things add up! About the Name -------------- I admit I took a few liberties with the name... If you really want to know, a "syzygy" is when 3 celestial bodies (such as the moon, Earth, and sun) come to a point in their orbit when the three form a line (such as what happens during an eclipse). I took the part of the meaning that meant "line." This is really stretching it, but I decided I needed a new and unusual-sounding name as an attention-getter. This game was originally called "Colors," but it wasn't being downloaded that much, the main reason being it probably wasn't an attention-grabbing name. So I decided on "Syzygy." I hope you like the game! Keith Johnson Keith Johnson 5404 Nuthatch Ct. 1711 Whipple Dr Apt. 11 Warrenton, VA 22186-9127 Blacksburg, VA 24060 kjohnson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 924 293 68.2% 03-Sep-92 22:37:34 Syzygy.info 264 33 87.5% 03-Sep-92 22:38:32 syzygy/fonts/keeferclean.font 1336 666 50.1% 03-Sep-92 22:39:06 syzygy/fonts/keeferclean/8 620 373 39.8% 03-Sep-92 22:17:24 syzygy/Shareware.Oops 551 269 51.1% 03-Sep-92 22:37:32 syzygy/Shareware.Oops.info 112756 104673 7.1% 03-Sep-92 22:26:26 syzygy/Syzygy 40665 15755 61.2% 11-Aug-92 22:55:06 syzygy/Syzygy.Doc 551 267 51.5% 03-Sep-92 22:37:32 syzygy/Syzygy.Doc.info 43242 16171 62.6% 11-Aug-92 23:10:20 syzygy/Syzygy.Doc.Prw 409 259 36.6% 03-Sep-92 22:37:32 syzygy/Syzygy.Doc.Prw.info 1562 328 79.0% 03-Sep-92 22:37:32 syzygy/Syzygy.info 2961 1436 51.5% 09-Aug-92 23:28:26 syzygy/Syzygy.MoreMe 551 267 51.5% 03-Sep-92 22:37:32 syzygy/Syzygy.MoreMe.info 3360 129 96.1% 03-Sep-92 22:27:50 syzygy/SyzygyHi.abk 47020 43700 7.0% 03-Sep-92 22:25:38 syzygy/SyzygyHiUtil 1880 908 51.7% 10-Aug-92 00:46:24 syzygy/SyzygyHiUtil.Doc 551 268 51.3% 03-Sep-92 22:37:34 syzygy/SyzygyHiUtil.Doc.info 674 312 53.7% 03-Sep-92 22:37:32 syzygy/SyzygyHiUtil.info 8781 3876 55.8% 10-Aug-92 00:33:08 syzygy/Versions.Doc 551 268 51.3% 03-Sep-92 22:37:32 syzygy/Versions.Doc.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 269209 190251 29.3% 08-Sep-92 19:34:36 20 files