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From: hill@petsd.UUCP (John S. Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Welltris
Message-ID: <1797@petsd.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 90 18:47:54 GMT
References: <17766@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <37073@brunix.UUCP> <697@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Reply-To: hill@petsd.UUCP (John S. Hill)
Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls, N.J.
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In article <697@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes:
>Heng-Yi Lin responds to Stephen Haase with:
>
>(huge) games-we-don't-want-to-play closet.  Why isn't it that good? 
>Because it offers a more confusing interface including a poorly
>laid out keyboard (imagine this; you've a tetris-shape piece sliding
>down one wall of a four wall 'well'.  you can use keys on the keyboard
>to rotate it or move it "clockwise" or "counterclockwise", but as soon
>as it hits the adjacent wall and wraps over the keys that you must
>use to control lateral motion CHANGE.  YECH!  Why not just '4' for 
>clockwise and '6' for counterclockwise, which would be a heck of a
>lot more consistent!)

Uh - you can choose the keyboard control character under one of the menus
to do exactly what you describe here.  I've got both Tetris and Welltris,
and I find them both very addicting.  I think you just gotta remember that
Welltris is a different game than Tetris.  My only complaint is that Welltris
has one of those damn 'protection' schemes that makes you look up a statistic
out of the manual.  I hate it when the first thing you have to do when you
buy a new program is defeat the protection scheme.


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