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- From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
- Subject: Re: EQ card with Tetris
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.150122.22218@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: mueller@schaefer.UUCP (Carl Douglas Mueller)
- Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
- References: <12NOV199216195961@utarlg.uta.edu> <2b08b6c8.2172.1comp.sys.hp48.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 15:01:22 GMT
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- In article <2b08b6c8.2172.1comp.sys.hp48.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com> akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (Joseph K. Horn) writes:
- >
- >WHOOPEE!!! Only one year late, this must be the version B of the EQ card
- >that HP's been tinkering with. I'm glad to hear that it's finally
- >available. Besides fixing a few bugs, and including a GROB decompressor
- >that allows more graphics to be squeezed into the card, they also have a
- >real, actual, honest-to-goodness Spectrum Holobyte version of Tetris,
- >licensed from Bulletproof Software, and it's Really Good!
- >
- > ...
- >
- >Unfortunately, HP went to great pains to insure that us hacker types
- >cannot extract the Tetris code from the card. (Well, at least I tried
- >very, very hard, and couldn't do it). So bootleg copies of it won't be
- >floating around. You can only get it in one place: version B of the EQ
- >card. It's not being announced with a lot of fanfare, so that the
- >version A cards will continue to sell to the uninformed.
- >
-
- Does anyone know if HP will have an upgrade policy for those with the
- original version of this card?
-
- >-Joseph K. Horn- -Peripheral Vision, Ltd.-
- >akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com
- >Disclaimer: I don't work for HP, EduCALC, or anybody else.
-
- Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
-