Runtet is a very original variant of the well-known game tetris. It is intended to be executed on the 80x86 Intel based IBM PC computers and does not require special hardware conditions. It needs only a VGA graphic card. Runtet, as its name shows, is a kind of "travelling" tetris because all the dropping pieces "run" from the right to the left side of the screen. The scene wrap around so a continuous movement is performed. You have the possibility to move to the left and to the right the dropping pieces, to rotate them and to make them drop faster when you find the proper position. Your aim is to let the scene run the longest time possible in order to achieve a bigger score. That means you must never let the running stack pieces to grow big enough so to be able to hit the upper side of the left "wall" and stop the game. You must try to make a longest continuous range of pieces than the displayed length which corresponds to the current difficulty level. So, for the first level the length is 12 and for the last level 21 pieces. The computer "joins" the left and the right side and considers this as a continuous range of pieces that is momentarely split by the wrap around movement. If you succeed to make a such a large continuous pieces range, it is removed and you achieve more space and score more points. You can see also the built-in help. The initial key assignation is: - left rotate : z - key; - right rotate : x - key; - left movement : <-- key; - right movement : --> key; - drop : space; The N key enable you to toggle the view NEXT dropping piece option. If you have more questions my address is: Danny Popey 4566 Hutchison 12 Montreal Quebec H2V 3Z9 CANADA e-mail address: dpopes@CAM.ORG