Wordtris (DOS)

Wordtris

Platform: DOS Year: 1991 Developer: Spectrum HoloByte Buy: Amazon

For other games in the series, see Tetris.

Wordtris is a puzzle game based on the popular puzzle game Tetris. The player must line up words horizontally or vertically to spell words. Instead of level numbers, the levels are represented in letters. The game stops at Level J and keeps going until the player loses. Every time the level changes, there is a different background image with a Russian theme and a short music number.

Screenshots

The title screen. The copy protection. Viewing the main menu. Playing Level A.

Music

The game claims the music is Russian-style and it is. Ed Bogas provided 12 musical tracks. Unfortunately, the music does not loop. Ed wrote MIDI files in Super Studio Session which were then converted to the sound engine, suspected to be Ad Lib Visual Composer.

Recording

The AdLib recording starts with a 1, the MT-32 recording starts with a 2, and the Tandy 3 Voice recording starts with a 3.

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
101	Title Screen	Ed Bogas	0:40		Download
102	Level A	Ed Bogas	0:23		Download
103	Level B	Ed Bogas	0:23		Download
104	Level C	Ed Bogas	0:30		Download
105	Level D	Ed Bogas	0:21		Download
106	Level E	Ed Bogas	0:20		Download
107	Level F	Ed Bogas	0:18		Download
108	Level G	Ed Bogas	0:29		Download
109	Level H	Ed Bogas	0:27		Download
110	Level I	Ed Bogas	0:31		Download
111	Level J	Ed Bogas	0:14		Download
112	High Scores	Ed Bogas	0:24		Download

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
201	Title Screen	Ed Bogas	0:46		Download
202	Level A	Ed Bogas	0:25		Download
203	Level B	Ed Bogas	0:24		Download
204	Level C	Ed Bogas	0:31		Download
205	Level D	Ed Bogas	0:23		Download
206	Level E	Ed Bogas	0:22		Download
207	Level F	Ed Bogas	0:19		Download
208	Level G	Ed Bogas	0:30		Download
209	Level H	Ed Bogas	0:29		Download
210	Level I	Ed Bogas	0:33		Download
211	Level J	Ed Bogas	0:16		Download
212	High Scores	Ed Bogas	0:26		Download

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
301	Title Screen	Ed Bogas	0:48		Download
302	Level A	Ed Bogas	0:23		Download
303	Level B	Ed Bogas	0:24		Download
304	Level C	Ed Bogas	0:29		Download
305	Level D	Ed Bogas	0:20		Download
306	Level E	Ed Bogas	0:20		Download
307	Level F	Ed Bogas	0:18		Download
308	Level G	Ed Bogas	0:29		Download
309	Level H	Ed Bogas	0:14		Download
310	Level I	Ed Bogas	0:14		Download
311	Level J	Ed Bogas	0:14		Download
312	High Scores	Ed Bogas	0:24		Download

Credits

• Ripper: Doommaster1994, binarymaster
• Recorder: Doommaster1994, binarymaster
• Game Credits:
  • Music: Ed Bogas
  • Sound: Don Harlow
  • Sound: Paul Mogg

(Source)

Don Harlow is credited for sound, but is also credited in Super Tetris (DOS) for sound programming. Therefore, he has been listed as the programmer.

Game Rip

Format	Conversion	Download
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This rip contains AdLib instrument bank file that is installed in the root game folder, original compressed resource files, uncompressed music (AdLib, Roland MT-32, Tandy) and RAW sounds.

STUNS tool was used to decompress resources (PKWare compression).

Also the rip contains VGZ format recording and manually converted sounds in WAV format.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

(Source) - The game lets you choose the devices at startup.

Releases

World Title: Wordtris Platform: DOS Released: 1991-09-19 Publisher: Spectrum HoloByte

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/wordtris- - MobyGames.