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- From: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-)
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- Subject: Re: EQ card with Tetris
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.113721.27338@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 11:37:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.014116.4194@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> maksymc@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Maksymiak) writes:
- >In article <12NOV199216195961@utarlg.uta.edu> b645zjo@utarlg.uta.edu (Rick Homard) writes:
-
- >Humm, I would be interested in any info about this seeing as I was the person
- >with the copy of tetris that started all that controversy. If anyone can
- >supply any info about this (part number, general programming style, etc...)
- >I would be greatly interested...
-
- Yes.. this version of tetris is indeed the one that was supressed before.
- Tetris was written for the hp48sx very early at HP. And then as one might
- expect it was found to be pretty popular. A goodly number of the hp48sx
- hacks there got copies. Unfortunately at least one copy got out and this
- I presume is the one you have.
-
- Anyway, I've been waiting a long time to talk about it. I'm glad it's
- out and available. Joe Horn listed all the features but I'd like to
- comment that everything was done very well. I don't believe anyone is
- going to find any bugs in this software. A few points to comment on.
- - As Joe stated two player mode is sweet. Found my hp to hp connector quite
- useful for this purpose.
-
- - It's very fast, and the higher levels are pretty scary, but you have
- further to go unlike the other machine language tetris.
-
- - The scoring is consistent with the original game if I recall correctly.
- Sometimes it's better just to start at higher levels because not as many
- points are available at lower levels unless you can take out multiple rows
- all the time.
-
- - Changing the key layout is very intuitive and simple to do.
-
- Overall it's a quality bit of software.
-
- I just hope people aren't so burned out on tetris games for the h48sx
- that this one doesn't go over well. I think it'll be a hit eventually.
-
- >-- Chris Maksymiak
-
- ian
-