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From: roelofs@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Ender Wiggin)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: OBJetris
Message-ID: <7077@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 30 Jun 90 08:53:26 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago
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portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes:

>So this begs the question: has anybody written a PD/shareware Tetris
>clone that runs on a CGA display, so I can use it on my Toshiba
>notebook PC?  Geez, it's not like Tetris challenges the limits of
>*any* display architecture.

There is a good, basic, fairly-portable version called Nyet which runs in
character-mode (40x25) under both CGA and mono (with or without Hercules,
I believe); and, of course, the original Tetris by Pajitnov and Gerasimov
was written in character mode as well.  It's not nearly as well written as
Nyet--very sluggish; uses 7-8-9 for movement only (j-k-l is more comfortable
on a laptop, I find); etc.--but then, it *is* the original, "true red"
version (anybody watch Red Heat tonight?  Go Arnie! :) ).  As near as I
can tell, it's freeware and possibly public domain.  Nyet, I think, is 
shareware.  By far the prettiest I've seen, however, is Eric Ng's EGAINT...
but you need EGA/VGA to run that (possibly Hercules, now; I've forgotten).

Check the Clarkson archives for either Nyet or Tetris, and if you still 
can't find one I'll upload the suckers and mail them to you.