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From: ant@mks.com (Anthony Howe)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: OBJetris
Keywords: Objetris, Tetris, C++
Message-ID: <1990Jul5.134726.1265@mks.com>
Date: 5 Jul 90 13:47:26 GMT
References: <386@flash.cvedc.Prime.Com> <1990Jul3.151446.28204@dmntor.on.ca>
Reply-To: ant@mks.com (Anthony Howe)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Lines: 41

In article <1990Jul3.151446.28204@dmntor.on.ca> rasmus@dmntor.on.ca (Rasmus Lerdorf) writes:
>In <386@flash.cvedc.Prime.Com> northon@cvedc.Prime.Com (Northon Rodrigues) writes:
>
>
>>KEYBOARD LAYOUT
>>===============
>
>>We chose a keyboard layout that would allow the player never to have to move
>>their fingers away from the 10 key pad.  Given the keys we have to work with
>>I honestly don't know how to improve it and I would consider your suggestions.
>>	    (4)<-    5     ->(6)
>>	       1     2     3
>
>The worldwide official Tetris standard keyboard layout as agreed upon by
>a committee appointed specifically for the task by the United Nations has
>specified that all version of Tetris written hereafter must use the following
>layout:
>
>	j   - left
>	l   - right
>	k   - rotate
>[space] - drop
>

While those at TWWOTS have a very standard they neglect other-handed people of
this world. We, at the Royal International Tetris subcommitee dot Zero (RIT.Z)
believe that a fair and playable tetris game should provide the an alternate 
layout for other-handed people, in addition to the one above (jkl):

	a 	-left
	s	-rotate
	d	-right
	space	-drop

- ant

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