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From: roelofs@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Cave Newt)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: OBJetris
Keywords: Objetris, Tetris, C++
Message-ID: <7143@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 4 Jul 90 18:40:22 GMT
References: <386@flash.cvedc.Prime.Com> <1990Jul3.151446.28204@dmntor.on.ca>
Organization: University of Chicago
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northon@cvedc.Prime.Com (Northon Rodrigues) writes:

>>KEYBOARD LAYOUT
>>===============
>
>>We chose a [non-standard] keyboard layout that [blah blah blah, etc.]

rasmus@dmntor.on.ca (Rasmus Lerdorf) writes:

>The worldwide official Tetris standard keyboard layout as agreed upon by
>a committee appointed specifically for the task by the United Nations has

Hear hear! (Here here?  Whatever...)

>specified that all version of Tetris written hereafter must use the following
>layout:
>
>	j   - left
>	l   - right
>	k   - rotate
              ^^^^^^ COUNTER-clockwise!!
>[space] - drop

The American National Standards Institute provides for the following optional
extension to the international standard:

	i   - rotate clockwise

This extension is specified in ANSI document RJ11-DB25, more commonly referred
to as "EGAINT.DOC".


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