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What is Bricklayer for Windows ?
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Bricklayer for Windows is a port of Steve Chamberlin's popular fast-paced
falling blocks game for the Macintosh. The Macintosh version was honorably
mentioned in the 1993 MacUser Shareware Awards, and favorably reviewed in
numerous books and magazines. Guaranteed to get you addicted, Bricklayer
for Windows features beautiful 256-color artwork, an original music
soundtrack, terrific sound effects, and more. Systems which are not
256-color or sound-capable are also supported.
Version 1.5 adds a host of new features described at the end if this
document.
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Contents
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- System Requirements
- Background Music
- Comments, Suggestions, Bug Reports
- Registration
- Controls
- New Features
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System Requirements
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Bricklayer has been beta tested on i386, i486, and Pentium systems with
4-8MB of memory. The memory requirements may be quite steep because
Bricklayer needs to load close to 1MB of music files. To enjoy the
background music and sound effects, you will need to have a sound card
with wave playing ability supported by Windows (such as Microsoft Sound
System, or Creative Labs Sound Blaster).
* If you cannot make Bricklayer even start up, try creating a file called
BRICKLYR.INI in your WINDOWS directory and putting the following lines
there:
[Settings]
LoadMusic=0
This will force Bricklayer to ignore the music and sound settings and
not load any music files. You will be able to play, but will have no
music or sound effects.
* Some users have encountered faults when Bricklayer displays its "Loading"
window. Try running Bricklayer with the -F command-line option
(bricklyr.exe -F) This will force Bricklater to skip the
initialization screen on startup.
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Background Music
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This version of Bricklayer, 1.50, uses the Microsoft WAVEMIX.DLL sound
mixing library. You may notice that the background music has stopped
playing after six or seven minutes (in rare instances, even less) of
continuous music. If this occurs, press the <TAB> key to restart the
music.
For those systems which are not sound capable, unselecting the
"Load Music" check box in the preferences dialog will prevent
Bricklayer from loading the music files and decrease load time.
The music WAV files are Copyright Opinicus Microtechnologies, and may
be freely distributed only as part of the Bricklayer for Windows game
for use by the Bricklayer executable. See the distribution information
for more details.
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Comments, Suggestions, Bug Reports
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I look forward to hearing from you. If you encounter problems while
playing Bricklayer, I would appreciate any information that you can
provide, such as your system configuration and a detailed description of
the problem. Suggestions for improvements are also welcome. Contact
me at the address listed below, or send email to:
yevg@aol.com
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Registration
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Bricklayer is $10 shareware (free for those people who've paid for previous
versions). If you enjoy and play Bricklayer, PLEASE send in the $10
shareware fee. It is not very much compared to the cost of a commercial
game, and it motivates me to keep improving Bricklayer as well as to work on
new games. If you play, please pay. Upgrades to new versions of Bricklayer
are always free for registered users. Those who register will also be kept
informed of new version releases, as well as the releases of any new
products.
To register Bricklayer, please send a US$10 check payable to
Yevgeny Gurevich to the address listed below. If you live outside of
the U.S., please send an international money order (preferred) or cash,
since checks drawn on foreign banks are sometimes difficult to clear.
Site licenses are available - please contact me for more details.
Yevgeny Gurevich
Vanilla-Extract Software
129 Franklin Street #112
Cambridge, MA 02139
email: yevg@aol.com
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Controls
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Keyboard control is customizable with the [Change Keys...] Options menu
item. The numeric keypad keys are active as control keys in addition to
any user-selectable settings. The default user-selectable keyboard
settings are the 'j', 'k', and 'l' keys for left, rotate, and right
motion, and the spacebar for the drop. The 'a' key controls the push.
On the numeric keypad, the 4, 5, 6, and 0 act the same as the
j, k, l, and space.
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New Features
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Version 1.50 of Bricklayer for Windows introduces event recording, a
computer player feature, and support for external background modules.
* Event recording allows you to record your own games for future playback.
To record your game, check the [Record] Event Recording menu item.
The games that you play will then be recorded. Only the last game played
is stored in the event buffer. You can replay that game, using the
[Replay] Event Recording menu item, or save it to disk for future loading
and replay - using the [Save Event] and [Read Event] File menu items,
respectively.
* The computer player options in the file menu let the computer play a
game on its own. The fast player thinks quickly but is not as good
at playing the game as the slower and smarter player, which uses the
Next Piece for lookahead. On fast systems like i486DX2-66's, the smart
player is faster than the dumb player on an i486SX-33.
For programmers:
I may release a programming interface and guidelines to allow
you to write your own Bricklayer players in the form of DLLs.
Please write me if you are interested.
* Alternate background modules may be used with Bricklayer for Windows -
select New Graphics from the File menu. Select an appropriate .BLR file
from the available choices. The unregistered distribution of Bricklayer
comes only with the default (DEFAULT.BLR) backgrounds file. Registered
users of Bricklayer can order a "goodies" disk with extra backgrounds.