Avigo Unity
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        Good is that which makes for unity;
        Evil is that which makes for separateness.

                    Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

----- History
Version 1.0, 12 July 1999 Limited release
Version 1.1, 19 July 1999 Lots of bug fixes

----- Description

Unity was originally invented in Japan 1985 as "Chain Shot!" by
Kuniaki Moribe. After that it has spread all over the world with
names such as SameGame, TumeGame, KomeGame, MameGame, DebaGame,
TileFall, Cabeem, MaciGame, GD-BMD etc.

The idea is to clear the whole playing area by removing tiles
in groups. The more tiles you remove, the more points you get.
The trick is that the scoring system is exponential i.e.

        1 tile  - cannot be removed
        2 tiles -  (2-2) ** 2 ==   0 points
        3 tiles -  (3-2) ** 2 ==   1
        4 tiles -  (4-2) ** 2 ==   4
        5 tiles -  (5-2) ** 2 ==   9
        6 tiles -  (6-2) ** 2 ==  16
        7 tiles -  (7-2) ** 2 ==  25
        8 tiles -  (8-2) ** 2 ==  36
        9 tiles -  (9-2) ** 2 ==  49
       10 tiles - (10-2) ** 2 ==  64
       11 tiles - (11-2) ** 2 ==  81
       12 tiles - (12-2) ** 2 == 100
       13 tiles - (13-2) ** 2 == 121
       14 tiles - (14-2) ** 2 == 144
       15 tiles - (15-2) ** 2 == 169
                    ...
        n tiles -  (n-2) ** 2 == Lots of points

Tip: As you can see you should remove small groups in order to
create larger groups. When the group is big enough even just one
more tile will make a big difference.

When you remove tiles, the space will be filled by tiles above
falling down. Empty columns will be filled by sliding remaining
columns to left. If you manage to clear the whole field, you will
get 1000 points as a bonus and go to next level.

----- Credits
Texas Instrument for creating Avigo 10 PDA
Gerard Vermeulen for Freeware SDK
Gerard Vermeulen and Ralf Christmann for simulator/debugger
Kuniaki Moribe for the game idea

And all the remaining Avigo users and developers! I finally
made this game because of you and for the same reason I will
fix and release ACE2 Montana solitaire.

Biggest thanx go to Kiia for letting me have time to actually
do this and for finding an enourmous amount of bugs.

----- Postcardware
This is a so called "PostcardWare" application. You are welcome to
use it and give a copy to all whoever wants one. I don't want any
money from you, but would appreciate a nice postcard!

I hope you enjoy Avigo Unity!

	JOM Avigo Games
	c/o Mr. Jouni Miettunen
	Rautatienkatu 20 A 10
	FIN-90100 OULU
	FINLAND

--jouni miettunen (mailto:jouni.miettunen@iki.fi)
