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Tetris by nitacku

1. Links

• Back to overview
• How to play
• Archived files
• Source code

2. Summary

• Programming language: TI-BASIC
• Main size: 2,8 KB
• Extra size: 0 B
• Total size: 2,8 KB
• Feature count: 18
• Bytes per feature: 157 B

3. Pause menu options

• resume: unpause
• new: start new game
• scores: view high scores
• quit

4. Controls

• On: quit

4.1. Game

• Trace: pause
• ←: move left
• ↑: rotate clockwise
• ↓: soft drop
• →: move right

4.2. Pause menu

• Trace: unpause
• 2nd or ↵ Enter: choose selected option
• ↑: select previous option
• ↓: select next option

4.3. Score menu

• Any Key: return to pause menu

5. Features

1. All tetrominoes
2. Animations
3. Drop: soft drop
4. Faster levels: speed = level
5. Game over detection
6. Game over screen: animation
7. Gravity
8. High scores: top 3, in sub menu
9. Horizontal movement
10. Line clearing: animation
11. Line clear points:
    • Single: 1000
    • Double: 3000
    • Triple: 6000
    • Tetris: 10000
12. Pause: menu with restart, high scores and quit
13. Persistent high scores: from OS
14. Piece preview: single piece
15. Quit
16. Restart
17. Retry
18. Rotation

6. Bugs

1. If you pause at the wrong time, you place the piece in the air
2. Lines come down from the ceiling if you clear a line after placing a piece in the top 2 rows
3. The game crashes at level 25
4. The game over animation doesn’t play if you hold ↑ or ↓
5. You don’t fall if you hold ← or →

7. How to play

After downloading the archive, the program can be run in one of these 2 ways:

7.1. WabbitEmu (Windows only)

1. Download ti84se.rom
2. Download WabbitEmu
3. Open WabbitEmu
4. Browse for ti84se.rom
5. View > Enable skin
6. Load TETRIS.8XP
7. Run prgmTETRIS

7.2. TI-84

1. Download TI Connect™ CE
2. Open TI Connect™ CE
3. Connect your calculator with a USB Mini-B cable
4. Open Calculator Explorer Workspace
5. Transfer TETRIS.8XP
6. Run prgmTETRIS