README for BoXplosion (Windows PC, Palm OS, Pocket PC)
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BoXplosion is a collection of wonderful arcade games.
Relaxed game-playing modes are present, as well as those 
that will require all your skills in quickly moving the mouse 
and shooting your clicks at the right spot. This game will 
give you possibility to exercise both your brainpower and 
reaction speed. 

Supported platforms: Windows PC, Palm OS5, Pocket PC 2000 and 2002.
Coming soon: Mac OSX, OS9, Symbian series 60, Linux.

The information about the new versions, upgrades, etc. can be found 
on the Web at http://absolutist.com/

When you ask for support, please include as many details about your 
problem and as much information on your computer as possible. 

This software is copyright (c) Icestone Trustee Ltd, 2001-04.

Game Rules

The main goal of the game is very simple-to remove color squares from 
the board. They can be taken out only in blocks of the same color, 
these blocks are selected when the mouse moves over. Just click on 
the block to take it out. Single squares cannot be cleared, and when 
no blocks remain-the game is over. There are two different games:

STRATEGY
Here the goal is just to remove as many squares in few moves as possible.
You get two points for every square you've managed to clear
at the end of the game the percent of the field left uncleared is counted 
down. This value is shown on the indicator under the playing field. The 
new level begins. At the end of it the percent of the squares left on a 
board is added to the value on indicator. When indicator reaches 100%, 
the game is over. The goal is to go through as many levels as possible.

ARCADE
In this game you have to remove like-colored blocks that are in clusters 
so that they couldn't fill the board to the top.  Removing big blocks will 
bring you more points. You'll get extra bonus if you remove extremely big 
blocks.
To move to the next level you should cope with a certain number of lines that 
will be added to the board.The speed of the game grows as you move from 
one level to another.
Bombs that sometimes appear on the board will help you to cope with a level: 
a click on a bomb of certain color will blow up all the squares of the same 
color. Clicking on a black bomb will blow up all the squares around it.

Bonuses:
Two bombs lying aflat -delete a horizontal line
Two bombs lying upright - delete a vertical line
Three stars - delete detached squares - those that are not included into blocks
Many stars - delete all blocks on the board
Block - 2 (in strategy) and 3 (in arcade) squares, lying together
Diagonal arrows - all squares of the same color change it into any other color,
for instance, all blue squares change into yellow
Round squares - turn the squares on the field from the right to the left and top-down.


REGISTRATION

If you wish to use the full version of this game, with skill selection
and saving on disk enabled, after the trial period, please register it 
securely at

    http://absolutist.com/palm/boxplosion/
or
    http://absolutist.com/cgi-bin/wp_reg.pl?tick=apgBOXP

Please visit the site above to learn about currently available discounts.

Upgrade is FREE for the registered users of previous versions.

All major credit cards are accepted, as well as checks and orders.
Other registration methods are possible, including fax and postal.
When your payment is completed, you will receive the registration number
and other information by e-mail. Please be careful when filling your 
address into the registration form.


DISTRIBUTION

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

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software, including commercial 
applications. Redistributing the program is only allowed if it is not yet 
registered, except for the following restrictions:
1. The authors and origin of this software must be clearly stated,
   you must not claim that you wrote the original software.
2. This copyright notice may not be removed from or altered in a 
   redistribution package.

Registered copies of BoXplosion cannot be further redistributed.


DISCLAIMER

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.

Please refer to LICENSE.TXT for details.


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Copyright (c) Absolutist.com, Icestone Trustee Limited, 2001-2004
