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From: ks@astra.ecn.purdue.edu (Kirk Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Tetris
Keywords: Tetris
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.130928.6563@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 90 13:09:28 GMT
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In article <4155@husc6.harvard.edu> bochner@lange.harvard.EDU (Harry Bochner) writes:
>n
>In article <1498@turner-joy.noarl.navy.mil>,
>beck@turner-joy.noarl.navy.mil (jeff beckleheimer) writes:
> > I recently installed OW 2.0 on my SS1+. To my dismay I soon
> > discovered that my favorite game Tetris was not included in the
> > demos. Is there a way to take the Tetris from OW 1.0.1 and make it
> > a standalone program which will run under OW 2.0?
>
>I saved the OW 1.0 tetris, but it produces the following under OW 2.0:
>
>Anyone know what's going on?
>

It would appear that the new NeWS is better about enforcing type checking.
Try these diffs:

350c350
< 	counttomark 2 div {
---
> 	counttomark 2 idiv {
365c365
< 	counttomark 2 div {
---
> 	counttomark 2 idiv {
601c601
< 	currenttime dup floor sub 200 mul floor {random pop} repeat
---
> 	currenttime dup floor sub 200 mul floor cvi {random pop} repeat
732c732
< 		    board exch get exch get	% xo yo val
---
> 		    board exch cvi get exch cvi get	% xo yo val
817c817
< 		board exch get exch curcolor put
---
> 		board exch get exch cvi curcolor put

					Kirk Smith