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From: lennartb@lne.kth.se (Lennart Boerjeson @ KTH/LNE, The Royal Inst. of Tech.)
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Subject: Re: Small bug in tetris (hp48)
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Date: 7 Sep 90 08:44:30 GMT
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In article <0J6IWXK@fugazi.uucp>, sharkey@fugazi.uucp (Bernhard Wolf) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I just managed to send tetris into my hp48, after spending
>some hours trying to transmit this f*cking 'redsq'...
>
>Although the game is a bit (harhar) slow, it is incredibly
>funny. But I found something strange:
>
>Every time the object floats down one step, I get ten points.
>If I press 'DROP', it drops down (what else) *WITHOUT*
>increasing the score. This seems to be a bit illogical (sp?).
>
>Why should I get fewer points for playing faster?
>
>Any hints/fixes/comments?

Well, as I said, I had no ideas on how the original Tetris awards point.
I have gotten some comments, but I have no time now to hack it. Feel
free to do whatever improvements you like! If you do, please send your
patches back to me.

>
>ciao, Bernhard
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