The best version of Tetris available for the TI-82!  Excellent graphics and

user defined degree of difficulty.  Over a year in the making.  Only 3009b!!!





|  Puzzler v2.2 by Brian Hill (bhill@qm.choate.edu). 

|  Version 1 created December 1993-March 1993.  Version 2 created June

|  1994-September, 1994.   Version 2.2 finished, Feb 1995.

It has taken me nearly a year and a half to create one of the best games for

the TI-82.  Starting with version 1, I slowly added better graphics, the

ability

to delete lines, and piece rotation.  Finally, I have a program that can

stand

up to the original and give it a fair fight.  Yes, this is definately in list

of top

ten programs that are a MUST HAVE for the TI-82.



To play, choose the program PUZZLER2.  The title page appears, and you

will be asked for the speed you want to play at.  0 is very fast, so I would

recomend choosing a slower speed the first few times you play, say around

70.  Once you get a little experience with the peices and the keys, then try

the higher speeds.



You begin with a blank playing space.  The only way to win this game is to

get the space blank again by completing lines across the screen so that they

are deleted.  Each time a line is deleted, the pieces above the line move

down

to create more space.  There are 7 peices that fall down (one at a time, of

course) in a random order.  To move the piece to the left or right, press the

left or right button.  To rotate a piece clockwise, press the down button.

 And

to rotate the piece counter-clockwise, press the up button.  Unlike all other

Tetris like games for TI calculators that I have seen, this one rotates the

pieces

into FOUR different positions.  If you want to pause the game, all you have

to

do is press CLEAR.  The controls are very simple, so you can concentrate more

on playing the game.



One of the problems that version 2.2 fixes, is that sometimes if you do not

have

enough memory, the program would quit in the middle of a game.  Although I

cannot do anything about that error, with version 2.2 if that happens, just

restart

the program and type in C when prompted for the speed (C stands for Continue

Mode).  Then you will be promted for the speed again, and input the speed you

want to play at.  Then the game will continue from where you were when it was

quit.



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Model:TI-82

Memory:3009

Requires [E] and L6