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Article #38738Re: Anyone seen the game Tetris?
From: Miles Kehoe
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1989 19:32
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1989 19:32
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re: Tetris on the PC and Mac:
1. Isn't it funny that a system which cannot legally be sold in
Soviet block countries has a popular game originally written
in Russia for it?
2. The IBM version has a nice feature I have not found on the
mac version: the 'boss key'. At the press of the ESC key,
your screen turns into a DOS prompt or a Lotus style spread
sheet.
3. The PC version has no music, which is part of the calming
effect I find when playing the Mac version.
4. I have a copy of an X.11 version of a Tetris-like game
somewhere in my directory. I'll see if I can find it and
put it somewhere public.
5. I've mused with the idea that this may be a way to reduce
the effectiveness of US programmers everywhere - but then
decided that the last thing the Soviets want is less effective
software engineers here - how else would they get any work
done without code?
mbk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhc!hpsemc!mbk From: mbk@hpsemc.HP.COM (Miles Kehoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Anyone seen the game Tetris? Message-ID: <620019@hpsemc.HP.COM> Date: 3 Mar 89 19:32:29 GMT References: <430036@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM> Organization: HP Technology Access Center, Cupertino, CA Lines: 25